Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-261) and index
Introduction: Character Styles-- Part I The Neoclassical and Sentimental God of the Nineteenth Century -- The Problem of God's Anger -- Serenity and Torment: William Ellery Channing, Edwards A. Park, Charles Hodge, and Archibald Alexander Hodge -- Sympathy and Alienation: Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Part II The Romantic God of the Nineteenth Century -- Vitality and Anger: W.G.T. Shedd -- Love in the Trinity: James Henley Thornwell, George Griffin, and Samuel J. Baird -- Desire and Disgust: Horace Bushnell -- Part III The Vague God of the Twentieth Century -- Modernism and Literature: Theodore Munger and Amos N. Wilder -- The Social Gospel and Its Critics: Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and J. Gresham Machen -- The Limitations of Political Theology: Carl Henry, Harvey Cox, and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Prospects
