Winner of the 2012 Outreach Cross-Cultural Ministry Resource of the Year

Genocide. Terrorism. Hate crimes. In a world where racism is far from dead, is unity amidst diversities even remotely possible?

Sharing from his own experiences growing up in the segregated South, pastor John Piper thoughtfully exposes the unremitting problem of racism. Instead of turning finally to organizations, education, famous personalities, or government programs to address racial strife, Piper reveals the definitive source of hope--teaching how the good news about Jesus Christ actively undermines the sins that feed racial strife, and leads to a many-colored and many-cultured kingdom of God.

Learn to pursue ethnic harmony from a biblical perspective, and to relate to real people different from yourself, as you take part in the bloodline of Jesus that is comprised of "every tongue, tribe, and nation."

Contemporary Theology Video Lectures features 38 sessions (on 3DVDs) and provides a chronological survey of the major thinkers and schools of thought in modern theology. A companion to the textbook Contemporary Theology: An Introduction, these accessible and comprehensive sessions cover evangelical perspectives alongside mainline and liberal views, the influence of philosophy and the recent Christian philosophical renaissance on theology, global contributions, recent developments in exegetical theology, and the implications of theological shifts on ethics and church life.

These lectures are noteworthy for making complex ideas understandable and for tracing the landscape of modern theology in a well-organized and easy-to-follow manner. They are ideal for students, pastors, and independent learners who want to have an additional point of contact with the material from the main textbook on which they are based.

Session Titles and Runtimes:

1 - Philosophical Backgrounds (14 min)

2 - Friedrich Schleiermacher: Founder of Modern Liberal Theology (15 min)

3 - G. W. F. Hegel: Dialectical Theology (14 min)

4 - Soren Kierkegaard: Existentialism (14 min)

5 - Early Dispensationalism (14 min)

6 - Princeton Theology (15 min)

7 - Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Practical Biblical Theology (13 min)

8 - Vatican I and Neo-Thomism (15 min)

9 - Revivalist Theology (14 min)

10 - The Social Gospel (14 min)

11 - Christian Fundamentalism (14 min)

12 - Karl Barth and Neo-Orthodoxy (15 min)

13 - Christian Realism (16 min)

14 - Pentecostalism and Latin American Pneumatology (15 min)

15 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Picture Theory, and Language Games (15 min)

16 - The Birth of Contemporary Evangelicalism (15 min)

17 - Rudolf Bultmann: Demythologization (14 min)

18 - Paul Tillich: Theology of Culture (15 min)

19 - Death of God Theologies (15 min)

20 - Roman Catholic Theology from Vatican II to the Present (15 min)

21 - Process Theology (15 min)

22 - Jurgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg: Theology of Hope (15 min)

23 - John Howard Yoder: Current Anabaptist Theology (15 min)

24 - Liberation Theology (15 min)

25 - Feminist Theology (15 min)

26 - Evangelical Complementarianism and Egalitarianism (15 min)

27 - Reformed Epistemology (15 min)

28 - African Christology: Healer and Ancestor (15 min)

29 - Postmodern Theology (15 min)

30 - Open Theism (14 min)

31 - Philosophy of Religion and Analytic Theology (15 min)

32 - Chinese Eschatology (14 min)

33 - Postliberal Theology (15 min)

34 - Theology and the Arts (15 min)

35 - A New Perspective on Paul and Justification (14 min)

36 - Theological Interpretation of Scripture (14 min)

37 - Evolutionary Creation (15 min)

38 - Postconservative Theology (15 min)