Theology as science in nineteenth-century Germany : from F.C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch / Johannes Zachhuber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zachhuber, Johannes.

Series:

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baur, Ferdinand Christian, 1792-1860.

Troeltsch, Ernst, 1865-1923.

Ritschl, Albrecht, 1822-1889.

Tübingen School (Protestant theology).

Theology--Study and teaching--Germany--History--19th century.

Theology, Doctrinal--Study and teaching--Germany--History--19th century.

Religion and science--Germany--History--19th century.

Religion and science.

History.

Theology, Doctrinal--Study and teaching.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Theology--Study and teaching.

Germany.

Physical Description:

xii, 318 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This study describes the origin, development, and crisis of the German nineteenth-century project of theology as science. Its narrative is focused on the two predominant theological schools during this period, the Tübingen School and the Ritschl School. Their work emerges as a grand attempt to synthesize historical and systematic theology within the twin paradigms of historicism and German Idealism. Engaging in detail with the theological, historical, and philosophical scholarship of the story's protagonists, Johannes Zachhuber reconstructs the basis of this scholarship as a deep belief in the eventual unity of human knowledge. This idealism clashed with the historicist principles underlying much of the scholars' actual research. The tension between these paradigms ran through the entire period and ultimately led to the disintegration of the project at the end of the century. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, many of which have never been used in English-speaking scholarship before, Zachhuber embeds the essentially theological story he presents within broader intellectual developments in nineteenth-century Germany. In spite of its eventual failure, the project of theology as science in nineteenth-century Germany is here described as a paradigmatic intellectual endeavour of European modernity with far-reaching significance beyond the confines of a single academic discipline. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

pt. I. Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen School. F.C. Baur's two programmes of scientific theology

The origin of the two programmes

A science without presuppositions: David Strauss

Debating the nature of religion: Eduard Zeller

A manifesto of Tübingen orthodoxy: Adolf Hilgenfeld

pt. II. Albrecht Ritschl and the Ritschl School. Albrecht Ritschl on theology as science

Philosophical insights and influences

The kingdom of God

The end of the idealist programme

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index.

ISBN:

9780199641918

0199641919

OCLC:

850214497