Challenge and Change within German Protestant Theological Education during the Nineteenth Century
In a day when every theological curriculum is under fire and every presupposition of theological education is being questioned, there is both comfort and challenge in the discovery that things have been like that for a long time. Unfortunately, most histories of nineteenthcentury theology treat the...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
[1970]
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Church history
Year: 1970, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 36-48 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history |
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Summary: | In a day when every theological curriculum is under fire and every presupposition of theological education is being questioned, there is both comfort and challenge in the discovery that things have been like that for a long time. Unfortunately, most histories of nineteenthcentury theology treat the great minds of that era in a way that emphasizes abstract relationships rather than concrete situations. Schleiermacher, Baur, Ritschl and the rest often seem to swim in a theological firmament far removed from the knotty problems of curriculum, faculty freedom, and social responsibility which beset contemporary theologians. |
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ISSN: | 0009-6407 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3163212 |