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Originally Posted by surftheiop
I generally picture "today's Christianity" almost solely as the heavily protestant/calvinist inspired theology that most people would identify as being most popular in America today.
I'm sort of curious to learn more about the "other" christian interpretations that at out there today? So I'm curious who are the most "respected" theologians/books from different branches of Christianity in the last 50 years?
For Anglicans: I assume its N.T. Wright
What about for Orthodox?
Catholic?
One of the most prominent theologians in the last 50 years was Karl Barth and arguably the most important in the last century. He represents the Reformed tradition and his magnum opus,
Church Dogmatics is well-known ( but not necessarily well-read ).
John Macquarrie may have been one of the most important Anglican systematic theologians.
Hans Küng must be one of the most influential albeit somewhat controversial Roman Catholic theologians.
I have no opinion about Orthodox systematic theologians. For an overview, I'd suggest looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_theology