The Opaqueness of God

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The Opaqueness of God is written by David O. Woodyard and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0664248934 (ISBN 10) and 9780664248932 (ISBN 13).

How can we talk about God today? The new, younger theologians are wrestling with this "God problem"--and coming up with varied and surprising answers. David Woodyard's book is an introduction to their thinking--a current look at today's debate about God. Professor Woodyard believes that a radical shift has occurred--from the assumption that the divine-human encounter was secure in our experience to the recognition that we have to ask and ascertain "Where in our lived experience does God become real?" He poses this question to the new theologians--Paul van Buren, Schubert Ogden, Fritz Buri, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Jurgen Moltmann--interpreting their answers against the background of Barth, Bultmann, and Bonhoeffer. Their answers range from van Buren's thesis that God-talk is meaningless to Pannenberg's "theology of the future" and Moltmann's "theology of hope." This study gives the reader not only an up-to-date report on literature on the meaning of God for our era, but also some critical reactions to it and a solid background against which to formulate his own thinking about God.