"Intelligent and orthodox, subtle and strong, 'God as the Mystery of the World' is a masterpiece which should at last make its author as familiar in the English-speaking world as he has long deserved to be." - Geoffrey Wainwright "Jungel sets out in this work to establish a basis for a theology of God the crucified while avoiding the shoals of theism and atheism. He warns of the danger, rooted in the fact that modernity no longger dares to think God, of talking God to death, of silencing God with too much God-talk. He analyzes what our possibilities are of thinking and speaking God and...

Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide. the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present encompasses a vast range of subjects connected with religion. This great resource, now at last available in English, continues the tradition of deep knowledge and authority relied upon by generations of scholars in religious, theological, and biblical studies. Religion Past and Present indisputably belongs to the small...

English summary: While Jungel currently seems to have accepted or is at least no longer opposed to the ratification of the Joint Declaration, this book retains its value for its systematic, thorough, and clear exposition of the centrality and contemporary relevance of the doctrine of justification as the criterion of truth in Protestant theology.Mark C. Mattes in Lutheran Quarterly, 2002, pp. 477-479 German description: Der Tubinger Systematiker Eberhard Jungel hat die Diskussion uber die GE Gemeinsame Erklarung zur Rechtsfertigungslehre] ausgelost und massgeblich bestimmt, aber sein...