Theology as science in nineteenth-century Germany

Oxford University Press

2013

xii, 318 p.

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

9780199641918

Cover; Contents; Note to the Reader; 1. Introduction; The Institutional Context; The Historicization of European Intellectual Life; Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Project of Theology as Science; Part I. Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen School; 2. F. C. Baur's Two Programmes of Scientific Theology; Gnosis and the Christian Philosophy of Religion; Ancient Gnosticism as Philosophy of Religion; Modern Philosophy of Religion as Gnosis; The Two Programmes: Idealist and Neo-rationalist; 3. The Origin of the Two Programmes; The Tübingen Easter Programme; Symbolism and Mythology; Schelling's Philosophy of History4. A Science without Presuppositions: David Strauss; A New Ideal of Science; A Hegelian Theologian?; History, Religion, and Myth; 5. Debating the Nature of Religion: Eduard Zeller; 'Scientific Theology'; Strauss and Feuerbach; On the Nature of Religion; 6. A Manifesto of Tübingen Orthodoxy: Adolf Hilgenfeld; Part II. Albrecht Ritschl and the Ritschl School; 7. Albrecht Ritschl on Theology as Science; The Reformulation of the Idealist Programme; The Debate with Zeller; The Formation of the Early Catholic Church; 8. Philosophical Insights and Influences; Foundations and PrinciplesPhilosophy and Theology; 9. The Kingdom of God; Background and Development; The Kingdom of God in Biblical Theology; A Teleological Doctrine of God; 10. The End of the Idealist Programme; Tensions in Ritschl's System; The Parting of the Ways; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

This study describes the origin, development and crisis of the German 19th-century project of theology as science. Its narrative is focused on the two predominant theological schools during this period, the Tubingen School and the Ritschl School.

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