Abstract

Professor Macquarrie, now of Union Seminary, New York and noted as a specialist student of existentialist theology, has bravely faced a laborious undertaking in this careful survey of the varieties of religious thinking in Europe and North America during the past sixty years of our century. His scholarly addition to the valuable Library of Philosophy and Theology of the Student Christian Movement covers the wide field of Western theology, natural and supernatural, believing and unbelieving, from the formal system of Absolute Idealism dying in the first decade with its attendant personal idealism and philosophies of spirit, through a new pragmatism and a realism to be confronted by a new positivism, a sociology and philosophy of history, a new challenge from logical empiricism and analysis, and positive replies from a new theology of the Word, neo-Thomism and existentialism.