Troeltsch's eschatological absolute / Evan F. Kuehn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuehn, Evan, author.

Series:

AAR academy series.

Oxford scholarship online.

AAR academy series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Absolute, The.

Eschatology.

Troeltsch, Ernst, 1865-1923.

Troeltsch, Ernst.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Ernst Troeltsch is widely recognized as having played an important role in the development of modern Protestant theology, but his contribution is usually understood as largely critical of traditional modes of theological inquiry. Evan Kuehn demonstrates that historiographical assumptions about twentieth-century religious thought have obscured the coherence and relevance of Troeltsch's understanding of God, history, and eschatology. An eschatological understanding of the Absolute, Kuehn contends, stands at the heart of Troeltsch's theology and the problem of historicism with which it is faced. Troeltsch's eschatological Absolute must be understood in the context of questions that were being raised at the turn of the twentieth century both by research on New Testament apocalypticism, and by modern critical methodologies in the historical sciences.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-750668-2

0-19-750666-6