Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany: From F.C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch

by Johannes Zachhuber

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 Tubingen 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199641919
• ISBN13: 9780199641918
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"