Theology, History, and the Modern German University
edited by Kevin M. Vander Schel and Michael P. DeJonge
Hardback (Published)
(November 2021)
ISBN: 9783161610547
9.09 x 6.06 inches
Price: $105.00
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Questions surrounding the genesis, development, and viability of modern academic theology have drawn renewed and heightened interest in recent years. Over the past decade, an increasing number of detailed studies have inquired into the emergence of scientific theology (wissenschaftliche Theologie) in the nineteenth century and its uneasy relationship with the shifting intellectual culture of the modern research university. This volume presents a unique contribution to this developing conversation, offering a focused treatment of the many-sided debate surrounding the tasks and limitations of historical and critical theology as it develops in the modern German university during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The fifteen chapters of the volume examine the challenges of the historical study of theology and the contested concept of scientific theology in the writings of foundational figures such as Kant, Schleiermacher, Baur, Ritschl, Harnack, Troeltsch, Barth, and Bonhoeffer. Yet it also attends to ongoing debates concerning the relationship between supernatural revelation and empirical-historical research, the rise and fall of historicism in theology, the competing locales of church and university, the appropriation of historical methods within Protestant and Catholic theological faculties, and the place and function of theology in the increasingly specialized modern research university. As the essays demonstrate, the implications of this conversation continue to resound in contemporary discussions of the place of the study of theology and religion in the modern university.
- Edited by Michael P DeJonge
- Edited by Kevin M Vander Schel
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Aneignungen Luthers und der Reformation
Wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Beitrage zum 19.-21. Jahrhundert
Volume 2
Differenz und Wahrheit
Theologische Transformationen konfessioneller Glaubensreflexion zwischen 1750 und 1914
Volume 7
Johann Gottfried Herder und Buckeburg
Was habe ich hier ausgerichtet? Wessen kann ich mich ruhmen?
Volume 9
Wahrheit – Geschichte – Erleben. Grundzüge der Theologie Wilhelm Herrmanns
Mit einer Edition der Vorlesung Wilhelm Herrmanns 'Die Wahrheit der christlichen Religion' von 1887 (deutsche Erstveröffentlichung)
Volume 10
Adolf von Harnack, Werner Jaeger, and the Crisis of Weimar Culture
Greco-Christian Humanism at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity
Volume 11
Hermann Dorries (1895-1977)
Ein Kirchenhistoriker im Wandel der politischen Systeme Deutschlands
Volume 3
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