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These brief summaries are intended only as introductions. 
The hope is that the reader will get an overall, more general  
view of the period covered than is usually dealt with.  
More detail is readily available for those who want it.  
A good source on the Web is Religion Online.

H S Reimarus (1694-1768)
I Kant (1724-1804)

G E Lessing (1729-81)
 
J G Herder (1744-1803)

F D E Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
G W F Hegel (1770-1831)
  
L Feuerbach (1804-72)
  
D F Strauss (1808-74)
S Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

W James (1842-1910)
F Nietzsche (1844-1900)

A von Harnack (1851-1930) 
F von Hugel (1852-1925)  
J G Frazer (1854-1941)
E Husserl (1859-1939)  
H Bergson (1859-1941) 
J Dewey (1859-1952)
A N Whitehead (1861-1947)

E Troeltsch (1865-1923) 
R Otto (1869-1937)  
G E Moore (1873-1958)  
N Berdyaev (1874-1948)  
A Schweitzer (1875-1965)  
C H Dodd (1884-1973)  
R Bultmann (1884-1976)  
P Tillich (1886-1965)   
K Barth (1886-1968)
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
Richard Neibuhr (1894-1962) 
H de Lubac (1896-1991)
  
E Brunner (1899-1966)  
G Ryle (1900-1976)
K Rahner (1904-1984)   
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)  
Y Congar (1905-1995)
  
D Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
E Schillebeeckx (1914-2009)
T Kuhn (1922-1996)

J Moltmann (1926-)  
H Kung (1928- )
 
W Pannenberg (1928-)  
M Wiles (1929-2005)  
E Jungel (1934 - )  
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Note: These descriptions draw on :
Christian Theology
, AE McGrath, Blackwell, 1994
The Christian Theology Reader, AE McGrath, Blackwell, 1996
The Modern Theologians,
Volumes I & II, DF Ford, Blackwell, 1997 
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
, OUP, 1971
Guide to the Debate about God
, D Jenkins, Lutterworth, 1966
The Roots of Radical Theology
, JC Cooper, Hodder, 1968
Religious Thought in the 19th Century, BMG Reardon, CUP, 1966
The End of the Line?, JHS Kent, SCM Press Ltd, 1982
History of Western Philosophy,
Bertrand Russell, 1946
Christian Faith at the Crossroads, L Geering, 2001
A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, Richardson & Bowden, SCM, 1983
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ed. Paul Edward, Collier & Macmillan, 1967

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