Protestant theology and the making of the modern German university / Thomas Albert Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Thomas Albert, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Germany--History.

Universities and colleges.

Church and college.

History.

Protestant churches.

Germany.

Protestant churches--Germany--Doctrines--History.

Theology, Doctrinal--Germany--History.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Church and college--Germany--History.

Physical Description:

xii, 468 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

In shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology, few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the nineteenth century. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing especially on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia's flagship university in the nineteenth century. In contradistinction to historians of modern higher education who often overlook theology, and to theologians who are frequently inattentive to the social and institutional contexts of religious thought, Thomas Albert Howard argues that modern university development and the trajectory of modern Protestant theology in Germany should be understood as interrelated phenomena.

Contents:

Theology, modernity, and the German University

On the state and modern science 'in the German sense'

Plan of study

Broader considerations, or 'the pathos of modern theology'

Sacra Facultas and the coming of German modernity

The medieval legacy

Humanism, the Reformation, and the universities

The eighteenth century : decline and critique

The way forward : Halle and Göttingen

'Torchbearer or trainbearer'? : the faculties and Immanuel Kant

Theology, Wissenschaft, and the founding of the University of Berlin

Revolutionary times and the ascendancy of Wissenschaft

'A new creation'

Theology and the idea of the New University

Early operations : Berlin's theological faculty, 1810-1819

'Renewing Protestantism' : Schleiermacher and the challenge of modern theological education

An Erastian modernity? : church, state, and education in early nineteenth-century, Prussia

Church and state before 1806

The great transition : church and state after 1806

'A realm of the intelligence' : Minister Altenstein and his legacy

Theologia between science and the state

General trends and developments, 1810-1918

The rise and fall of 'theological encyclopedia'

History, commemoration, and the university

'The age of German footnotes' : visitors from abroad, admirers from afar

'The crisis of the theological faculty' : Lagarde, Overbeck, and Harnack

Conclusion : Janus gazing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-456) and index.

ISBN:

0199266859

OCLC:

62152805

Publisher Number:

9780199266852 (alk. paper)