William Carl Placher (April 28, 1948 to November 30, 2008) was an American postliberal theologian. He was LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Wabash College until his death in 2008. He was a leader at Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Life
Placher graduated from Wabash in 1970 and completed his PhD at Yale in 1975; he became assistant professor at Wabash in 1974, but also taught at Stanford, Haverford College, Chicago and Princeton.
The American Academy of Religion awarded him the ‘’Excellence in Teaching Award’’ in 2002.
He also worked as an editor at "Christian Century".
At the time of this death, he was working in Minnesota as the Killian McDonnell Writer-in-Residence at the Collegeville Institute.
Bibliography He wrote thirteen books, including A History of Christian Theology, The Domestication of Transcendence and The Triune God.
Publications
Unapologetic Theology, 1989 A History of Christian Theology, 1983 Readings in the History of Christian Theology (Volumes I and II), 1988 Belonging to God, 1992 Narratives of a vulnerable God, 1994 The Domestication of Transcendence, 1996 Why are we here? (with Ronald F. Thiemann), 1998 Jesus the Savior, 2001 Struggling with Scripture (with Walter Brueggemann and Brian Blount), 2002 Callings: Twenty centuries of Christian wisdom on vocation, 2005 The Triune God, 2007 Mark, 2010 Unapologetic Theology
Editing Essentials of Christian Theology (ed.), 2003
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