Transcendental Materialism in the German Free Religious Movement: Science, Nature, and Theology in Kirchliche Reform, 1846-52
This essay describes the naturalistic pantheism of the Free Religious movement as it appeared in the journal Reform, published in Halle between 1846 and 1852. The Free Religious advocated a "transcendental materialism," in which the universe ran not by a deterministic clockwork mechanism,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2019
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Journal of the history of ideas
Year: 2019, Volume: 80, Issue: 3, Pages: 409-431 |
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| Summary: | This essay describes the naturalistic pantheism of the Free Religious movement as it appeared in the journal Reform, published in Halle between 1846 and 1852. The Free Religious advocated a "transcendental materialism," in which the universe ran not by a deterministic clockwork mechanism, but organically in the same way a tree grows according to particular natural laws. Influenced by Ludwig Feuerbach, David Strauß, and Alexander von Humboldt, the Free Religious went beyond a simple materialism to create a utopian vision of a divine humanity in which Nature itself was divine, both immanent and transcendent, and an object worthy of devotion. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the history of ideas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2019.0026 |