TY - BOOK AU - McDermott,Gerald R. TI - The great theologians: a brief guide SN - 9780830838752 AV - BT21 PY - 2010/// CY - Downers Grove, Illinois PB - IVP Academic KW - Theologians N1 - 2; Why study theology? --; Origen : oft-reviled but the greatest teacher after the apostles --; Athanasius : the black monk who saved the faith --; Augustine : the most influential theologian ever --; Thomas Aquinas : the teacher of the Catholic Church --; Martin Luther : the monk who rose up against heaven and earth --; John Calvin : greatest theologian of the reformed tradition --; Jonathan Edwards : America's theologian --; Friedrich Schleiermacher : father of liberal theology --; John Henry Newman : Anglican theologian who swam the Tiber --; Karl Barth : most influential twentieth-century theologian --; Hans Urs von Balthasar : stellar Catholic theologian of the twentieth century --; What these theologians teach us about theology; 2 N2 - Contains profiles of eleven of the most influential theologians in the history of Christianity, each with a biographical sketch, an introduction to the main themes of his thinking, and discussion of the one theme for which the person is most famous ER -