The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time.

1. Religion and Science John Kent; 2. Friedrich Nietzsche Carl Heinz Ratschow; 3. Jewish Thought Nathan Rotenstreich; 4. The Study of the Old Testament R. E. Clements; 5. The Study of the New Testament J. C. O'Neill; 6. Friedrich Max Muller and the Comparative Study of Religion Joseph M. Kitagawa and John S. Strong; 7. The Anthropology of Religion: British and French Schools Sir Edmund Leach; 8. Max Webber and German Sociology of Religion Roland Robertson; 9. Ernst Troeltsch Trutz Rendtorff and Friedrich Wilhelm Graf.