Becoming Human Again
The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren
by Bengt Kristensson Uggla
Paperback (No longer our product)
(January 2017)
ISBN: 9780227176030
5.98 x 9.02 inches
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A fresh exploration of the theological trajectory of Swedish theologian Gustaf Wingren, examining the the influences on his writings and how his ideas changed and developed over the course of his life.
One of the most influential Swedish theologians of the twentieth century, Gustaf Wingren’s career spanned more than forty years of upheaval both in his field and around the globe. Provocative and challenging, Wingren revelled in a good argument and this attitude set the tone for much of his scholarship. A Swedish Lutheran, he made his name through his research into the theology of Martin Luther, breaking away from both traditional interpretations of Luther and the theology of his famous teachers, Karl Barth and Anders Nygren, before shifting his focus onto systematic theology. In a fresh take, Bengt Kristensson Uggla delves into the influence of Wingren’s second wife, Greta Hofsten, on the direction of his theology. Hofsten, a left-wing political activist who was searching for a new language of faith, wove Wingren’s work together with her own political philosophy to create an unusual kind of Christian socialism. Her thinking had a profound effect on Wingren, causing him to recontextualise his older work entirely. In Becoming Human Again, Uggla examines how Wingren’s combative nature often served him well as a theologian, driving him to engage with innovations in the field and re-examine his older views.
Bengt Kristensson Uggla is Amos Anderson Professor of Philosophy, Culture, and Management at the Swedish-speaking Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. He is the author of ten books, including Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization (2010) and Trust and Organizations: Confidence across Borders (2013). He lives in Stockholm, where he also teaches at Stockholm School of Theology.
- By (author) Bengt Kristensson Uggla
"This is probably the definitive biography of the great Swedish theologian Gustaf Wingren. Kristensson Uggla writes with scope and theological nerve, and with a sense of wit and detail." Niels Henrik Gregersen, University of Copenhagen "This brilliant and judicious book is a hermeneutically-based analysis of the very significant theology of Gustaf Wingren. Kristensson Uggla makes Wingren's theology - in all its conflictual glory - come alive again through both an analysis of Wingren's major works and a moving narrative of his singular eventful life: A major work on a major theologian." David W. Tracy, University of Chicago "Kristensson Uggla takes the genre of intellectual biography to new heights. 'What Theology Is and What It Ought to Be' is the subtitle of Gustaf Wingren's debate book The Silent Interpreter; it also works as a subtitle for what this eloquent interpreter, Bengt Kristensson Uggla, achieves as he navigates the seas of academic and public theology with scholarly rigor and hermeneutical elegance. We are given a powerful testimony of why and how the Church needs theology." Antje Jackelen, Archbishop of Uppsala "This book is as important for its vivid accounts of Church and society in 20th-century Sweden as it is for its rehabilitation and critique of Wingren's theory. ... Uggla convinces us that, in many respects, he is a theologian whose time has come." The Rt Revd Dr. John Saxby, Church Times, 9 June 2017 "This brilliant intellectual biography is a most readable introduction to one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century" Jonas Jonson, Theology, March-April 2018, vol.121 no.2, pp.126-7
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