Contemporary Theology: An Introduction. Classical, Evangelical, Philosophical, and Global Perspectives, Kirk MacGregor, Zondervan, 2019 (ISBN 978-0-310-53453-2), 414 pp., hb $34.99 Contemporary Theology: Video Lectures. Classical, Evangelical, Philosophical, and Global Perspectives, Kirk MacGregor, Zondervan, 2019 (ISBN 978-0-310-55565-0), DVD, $49.99 Much has happened since the Reformation in the realm of Christian theology. Kirk MacGregor ’s Contemporary Theology is the latest ency- clopedic digest of recent trends in theological and philosophical discourse. Thirty-eight concise chapters comprise the book in a loosely chronolog- ical order that begins with nineteenth- and twentieth-century philoso- phers and ends with ‘Postconservative Theology’. Ten of the chapters focus specifically on the thought of an individual (Schleiermacher, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Spurgeon, Barth, Wittgenstein, Bultmann, Tillich, Moltmann/Pannenberg, and Yoder made the cut), while the other twenty-eight focus on particular movements and ideologies. Each chapter is about 9–11 pages. As a philosopher of religion, MacGregor ’s approach tends to focus on philosophical issues. The first chapter, ‘Philosophical Back- grounds’, explains how the basic contours of modernism and Enlight- enment thought set the stage for the next century. Readers then find incisive summaries of the thought of the modern liberal, dialectical, and existentialist thinkers before getting into the nitty-gritties of ‘Early Dispensationalism’ and ‘Princeton Theology’. MacGregor then zooms out into the sprawling ideas surging in the early twentieth century, such as the world of Spurgeon’s preaching, ‘Vatican I and Neo-Thomism’, ‘Revivalist Theology’, ‘The Social Gospel’, ‘Christian Fundamentalism’, Barth and Neo-Orthodoxy, ‘Christian Realism’ (ie, the Niebuhrs), ‘Pentecostalism and Latin American Pneumatology’, and Wittgenstein. The next chapter (fifteen) functions as a transitional filler for the reader, entitled ‘The Birth of Contemporary Evangelicalism’, which focuses on Harold Ockenga, Carl Henry, and Billy Graham. The book then dives back into the heavy-weight German thinkers of Bultmann and Paul Tillich before a brief summary of ‘Death of God Theologies’ and then picks up where he left off on the Catholic side to discuss Vatican II and Process The- ology (eg, Whitehead and Hartshorne). Moltmann and Pannenberg share a chapter on ‘Theology of Hope’, and Yoder is presented as representing ‘Current Anabaptist Theology’. ‘Liberation Theology’ (focusing mainly on Gutierrez and Cone) is then discussed before ‘Feminist Theology’, which he divides into the Reviews 667 © 2019 The Authors. Reviews in Religion & Theology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd