An account of revelation should speak to a variety of questions. Among them: what has God revealed? (the question of content); how does God reveal? (the question of revelation’s media); and not to be forgotten, where does revelation figure in God’s economy? (the question of revelation’s systematic location). More than a few theologians now have warned that the doctrine only suffers when it’s lifted from its proper dogmatic context and conscripted to serve as the epistemic foundation for the rest of a system. Many more interesting subtopics could be included. So for those with an interest in such matters, here’s a list of relatively recent treatments of the topic. I’ve tried drawing from a variety of perspectives. They’ll give you a sense for the history and current state of the conversation. If I come across other titles that deserve flagging, I’ll add them to the list. Feel welcome to offer your own suggestions.
(listed chronologically — since Barth)
- Karl Barth, (1932) Church Dogmatics,1.1
- G. C. Berkouwer, (1955) Studies in Dogmatics: General Revelation
- John Baillie, (1956) The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought
- Emil Brunner, (1964) Truth as Encounter
- Second Vatican Council, (1965) Dei Verbum
- Edward Schillebeecx, (1967) Revelation and Theology
- Gabriel Moran, (1967) Theology of Revelation
- Wolfhart Pannenberg, (1968) Revelation as History
- Carl Henry, (1976) God, Revelation and Authority
- Paul Helm, (1982) The Divine Revelation: The Basic Issues
- Ronald Thiemann, (1985) Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise
- Rowan Williams, “Trinity and Revelation,” Modern Theology 2/3 (1986): 197-212.
- Avery Dulles, (1992) Models of Revelation, 2nd Ed.
- Christoph Schwobel, (1992) God, Action and Revelation
- Colin Gunton, (1995) Brief Theology of Revelation
- Nicolas Wolterstorff, (1995) Divine Discourse
- Paul Avis, ed., (1997) Divine Revelation
- Gabriel Fackre, (1997) The Doctrine of Revelation: A Narrative Approach
- David Brown, (1999) Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change
- Peter Jensen, (2002) The Revelation of God
- William Abraham, (2006) Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation
- Richard Swinburne, (2007) Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy, 2nd Ed.
- John Frame, (2010) The Doctrine of the Word of God
- Matthew Levering, (2014) Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation