We have put these two volumes together to bring readers’ attention to the series Studia Theologica Lundensia.These are volumes 49 and 51 respectively. The latter is the latest to appear in this series. Details of all the previous studies appear at the end of both volumes. Outside Sweden, they are distributed in Norway, Denmark and Great Britain.

Moltmann has had a lot of coverage in secondary literature, but Rasmusson’s is apparently the first major study of Hauerwas’s thought. Hauerwas has long been a leader in the field of theological ethics and Rasmusson argues that, despite any weaknesses in Hauerwas and strengths in Moltmann, Hauerwas has the more coherent theological perspective on the sphere of the ‘political’.

Torrance and Jungel are also leading lights, of course. Both were influenced by and are leading commentators on the theology of Karl Barth, but have long established their independent and distinctive claims as original thinkers. Spjuth believes that both thinkers provide us with promising material for a sound theology of creation, but that limitations emerge in both cases against the background of the current ecological crisis and post-modernity in general.

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