Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University. By Thomas Albert Howard
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of the relationship between protestant theology and the development of the modern university in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany. Primarily a work of institutional history which focuses on ‘the fortunes of the theological faculty as a component o...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 412-415 |
Review of: | Protestant theology and the making of the modern German university (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2006) (Chapman, Mark D.)
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Summary: | This book offers a wide-ranging survey of the relationship between protestant theology and the development of the modern university in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany. Primarily a work of institutional history which focuses on ‘the fortunes of the theological faculty as a component of the university, not on theology per se’ (p. 10), it presents a synthesis of a vast body of reading and research in what will be the standard English-language work on the subject for some time. Howard's scope is enormous—a quarter of the book (ch. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm152 |