RT Article
T1 From orthodoxy to atheism: the apostasy of Bruno Bauer, 1835-1843
JF The journal of religion & society
VO 13
A1 Landry, Stan M.
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1806561409
AB This article is an intellectual and social history of the apostasy of the German theologian Bruno Bauer (1809-1882). It locates Bauer's intellectual and spiritual development from orthodox Protestantism to militant atheism in his exposure to historical criticism of the Bible, exclusion from German academic culture, and association with a group of Berlin atheists and dissidents. This is the first study dedicated exclusively to Bauer's apostasy. It underscores the personal experience of secularization and offers new insight into the complex intellectual and social processes behind individual apostasy and conversion.
K1 1770-1831
K1 1808-1874
K1 1809-1882
K1 Apostasy; Christianity
K1 Atheism
K1 Bauer
K1 Bruno
K1 David Friedrich
K1 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
K1 Germany; Intellectual life
K1 Hegel
K1 Philosophy and theology
K1 Political science; History; Prussia
K1 Prussia; Church history
K1 Social history; 1800-1899
K1 Strauss