Wolfhart Pannenberg's Crowning Achievement

Abstract

"With the appearance of volume 3 in 1998, Wolfhart Pannenberg's Systematic Theology is now available to English readers in its entirety-all sixteen hundred pages of it. The multivolume project is a fitting capstone to a brilliant theological career. Theologians variously draw praise for originality, for careful arguments, for sweeping theological vision, and for extensive scholarship. However, Pannenberg's work is impressive on all counts. Since he first attracted international attention nearly forty years ago with his revisionary-many thought revolutionary-interpretation of Christian eschatology, Pannenberg has steaddy worked his way across a wide front of theological issues, moving his thought forward, as well as outward, in the process"