God's Own Story? German Theology and Its Nineteenth-Century Readers
This review essay discusses two recent monographs on nineteenth-century German theology and its transnational reception. The books under review assess attempts by German theologians to present their discipline as a science, which required them to present its subject matter as at once purely historic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2014
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Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 444-453 |
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B Schleiermacher B Tübingen School B German theology B cultural transfer B German Idealism |
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| Summary: | This review essay discusses two recent monographs on nineteenth-century German theology and its transnational reception. The books under review assess attempts by German theologians to present their discipline as a science, which required them to present its subject matter as at once purely historical and of absolute significance for humanity. The result was an attractive but inherently unstable discipline, which oscillated between idealist and critical objectives and historical and systematic modes of argument. Its reception in the United States demonstrates both its multifaceted character, which appealed to theologians from a range of traditions, and also the way in which engagement with Germany offered theologians a means of modernizing and sometimes challenging the doctrinal assumptions and scholarly methods of those traditions. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reviews in religion and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rirt.12399 |