Becoming Human Again

Bengt Kristensson Uggla is Amos Anderson Professor of Philosophy, Culture, and Management at the Swedish-speaking Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. He is the author of ten books, including Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization (2010) and Trust and Organizations: Confidence across Borders (2013). He lives in Stockholm, where he also teaches at Stockholm School of Theology.

"This is probably the definitive biography of the great Swedish theologian Gustaf Wingren. Kristensson Uggla writes with scope and theological nerve, and with a sense of wit and detail."- Niels Henrik Gregersen, University of Copenhagen"This brilliant and judicious book is a hermeneutically-based analysis of the very significant theology of Gustaf Wingren. Kristensson Uggla makes Wingren's theology - in all its conflictual glory - come alive again through both an analysis of Wingren's major works and a moving narrative of his singular eventful life: A major work on a major theologian."- David W. Tracy, University of Chicago"Kristensson Uggla takes the genre of intellectual biography to new heights. 'What Theology Is and What It Ought to Be' is the subtitle of Gustaf Wingren's debate book The Silent Interpreter; it also works as a subtitle for what this eloquent interpreter, Bengt Kristensson Uggla, achieves as he navigates the seas of academic and public theology with scholarly rigor and hermeneutical elegance. We are given a powerful testimony of why and how the Church needs theology."- Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of Uppsala"This book is as important for its vivid accounts of Church and society in 20th-century Sweden as it is for its rehabilitation and critique of Wingren's theory. ... Uggla convinces us that, in many respects, he is a theologian whose time has come."-The Rt Revd Dr. John Saxby, Church Times, 9 June 2017"This brilliant intellectual biography is a most readable introduction to one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century"Jonas Jonson, Theology, March-April 2018, vol.121 no.2, pp.126-7

• 1. Entering Wingren's Theological Life2. The First Confrontation3. Sources4. The Practical Turn5. Metamorphosis and Recontextualization6. The Final Academic Battlefield7. Systematic Theology Turned Critique of Civilization8. "This Plague of Egocentricity"AcknowledgmentsPostscript to the English EditionLiterature and Other SourcesIndex