Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library

Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library is a multivolume, cross-searchable online collection that brings together the seminal works and archival materials related to worldwide religious thinkers from the early 1900s until the first decade of the 21st century.

This online collection represents voices from Islam, Judaism, Eastern Religions, and Christianity including: an international selection of English-language editions of key authors such as Muhammad Abduh, Sadiq Jalal Al- Azm, Hans Urs von Baltasar, Karl Barth, Eugene Borowitz, Sergius Bulgakov, Rudolf Bultmann, Helder Camara, James Cone, Khaled Abou el Fadl, Ivone Gebara, Blu Greenberg, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Adolf von Harnack, Louis Jacob, Mordecai Kaplan, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Henri de Lubac, Adolf Neubauer, Said Nursî, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Tariq Ramadan, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Dorothee Sölle, Abdolkarim Soroush, Muhammad Tahir-ul- Qadr, John Howard Yoder, Alan Watts, Sister Nivedita, K. N. Jayatilleke, and Prayudh Payutto; writings in Arabic by Muhammad Abduh, in French by Abdou Filali-Ansary; and in German by Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, i.e. the complete 17-volume German edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke (DBW); the complete 17 volumes of the English edition of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Series (DBWE); and a selection of the papers of Reinhold Niebuhr and correspondence of Markus Brann. Future releases will include works by other significant thinkers and additional archival content. Upon completion, the collection will include more than 400,000 pages of printed works and primary sources.

Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library provides resources to further explore Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations and key concepts in theology across religions, including Eastern Religions. It supports research and teaching in comparative religion, theology, world religion, religion and law, religion and politics, and serves as an important resource for courses and scholarship in Middle Eastern studies, social theory, feminist studies, philosophy, and world history.

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Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume 1: Christianity

Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume 2: Islam

Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume 3: Judaism

Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Volume 4: Eastern Religions

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Featured Content

Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds. The stimulus for the writing of Life Together was the closing of the preacher's seminary at Finkenwalde. The treatise contains Bonhoeffer's thoughts about the nature of Christian community based on the common life that he and his seminarians experienced at the seminary and in the "Brother's House" there. Bonhoeffer completed the writing of Life Together in 1938.

Interpretation of the Koran, Vol. 4

Rashid Rida and Muhammad Abduh were both Islamic reformers whose ideas influenced 20th century islamist thinkers in developing a political philosophy of an “Islamic state.” In Interpretations of the Koran Volume 4, Rida and Abduh provides a different insight into the interpretation of the Koran connecting these ideas to the changing political culture of the 20th century.

Markus Brann Archive

Markus Mordechai Brann was a historian and rabbi. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at the University of Breslau. From 1875 to 1883 served as assistant rabbi in Breslau and from 1883 to 1885 as director at Jewish Berlin orphanage. From 1885 to 1891 was rabbi in Pless. From 1891 was in the Breslau Seminar, becoming full professor in 1914. In addition to his scientific activity, was active in various Jewish organizations.

The Message of the Buddha

The Message of the Buddha, by K.N. Jayatilleke, was published posthumously, and contains material that he had been working on at the time of his death. Jayatilleke is an internationally recognized authority on Buddhist Philosophy who is well known for his work on the beginnings of ideas relating to the Theory of Knowledge in pre Buddhist Indian thought and their development in early Buddhism.