The Rebirth of Revelation : German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750-1850 / Tuska Benes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benes, Tuska, 1971- author.

Series:

German and European studies.

German and European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reason--History.

Reason.

Religion.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Revelation is a pillar of belief in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Historians regularly write that the Enlightenment dethroned it as the basis for knowledge of God and the world, replacing or at least supplementing it with reason. What Benes demonstrates is that in the late eighteenth century religious thinkers across the three main German confessions (Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism) rehabilitated the concept in important if untraditional ways. These thinkers were not entirely successful in reconciling reason, revelation, and history. A new generation of philosophers, including Feuerbach and Kierkegaard, attacked the concept again in the nineteenth century. But a secularized concept of revelation persisted and influenced numerous disciplines beyond theology, including history, linguistics, and natural philosophy (e.g. science). The dismantling of propositional revelation bestowed the privileges and agency once reserved for God onto human subjects, relegating religion to cultural practice, not divine truth. In addition to its comprehensive approach, Benes's manuscript stands-out for addressing not just the Protestant majority but also Catholic and Jewish thinking on revelation, highlighting both the common themes and the ways in which their intellectual trajectory differed."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Historical Revelation in the Protestant Enlightenment

Chapter Two. The Comparative History of Religion, 1770-1800

Chapter Three. God's Word in Comparative Mythology, 1760-1830

Chapter Four. Revelation in Nature from Physicotheology to G.H. Schubert

Chapter Five. The Philosophy of Revelation: Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Schelling

Chapter Six. The Epistemology of Grace: Revelation in Catholic Theology, 1770-1850

Chapter Seven. Revelation in Jewish Religious Thought from Mendelssohn to Geiger

Chapter Eight. Revelation Imperilled in Protestant Religious Thought, 1820-1850

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Benes, Tuska The Rebirth of Revelation

ISBN:

1-4875-4308-5

1-4875-4309-3

OCLC:

1255493624