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Article: Jesus' speech, God's word: an introduction to Eberhard Jungel.(part 1)(Cover Story)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 6, 1995
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Reading Eberhard Jungel's work is a delight and a frustration--usually about equal doses of each. Of all contemporary Protestant thinkers in Germany, he is at once the most invigorating and the most demanding. He is also seriously underappreciated. Unlike his near-contemporaries Jurgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg, he is little known in North America, though the work of translators and interpreters in the 1980s has improved the situation. Even in Germany, where students flock to hear him lecture and preach, he remains a somewhat tangential figure in the theological establishment.
Why the neglect? Partly it is because he has consciously distanced himself from ...