THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO NINETEENTH-CENTURY THEOLOGY
‘An excellent collection of essays on a century crucial for modern theological, religious and anti-religious thought.’
Janet Martin Soskice, University of Cambridge
‘This latest contribution to the Blackwell Companions to Religion masterfully summarizes the major trends in Christian theology during the enormously fertile period stretching from the Enlightenment to the Social Gospel and Modernism. An invaluable reference work that tracks developments across confessions and continents, this volume gives the lie to facile generalizations about nineteenth-century theology by illustrating the extraordinary range and depth of Christian thought through a tumultuous era that was in many respects the crucible for our own.’
Ian A. Mc Farland, Emory University
The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology presents a comprehensive account of the most significant theological figures and developments of thought that emerged in Europe and America during the nineteenth century. Bringing together newly commissioned research from prominent Biblical scholars, historians, and theologians, the book covers the key thinkers, confessional traditions, and major religious movements of the period.
The contributors’ international scholarship ensures balanced viewpoints as well as an ecumenical scope, with treatments of Catholic, Russian Orthodox, and Protestant theologies included. Along with thoughtful analysis of such prominent thinkers as Kant and Kierkegaard, the volume considers the influence of Darwin and the natural sciences on theology, and debates the role and influence of the ‘antitheologians’ – the nineteenth-century thinkers whose conscious rejection of religion continued to have an impact on twentieth-century theology.
Representing the most up-to-date theological research, The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Theology offers an engaging and illuminating overview of a period that exercises a significant influence on contemporary theology.
Cuprins
List of Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: Key Thinkers and Their Influence.
1. Kant (Nicholas Adams, University of Edinburgh).
2. Schleiermacher (Christine Helmer, Northwestern
University).
3. Hegel (David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh).
4. Coleridge (Stephen R. Holmes, University of St.
Andrews).
5. Kierkegaard (David R. Law, University of
Manchester).
6. Newman (Frank M. Turner, Yale University).
Part II: Trends and Movements.
7. Natural Science and Theology (James C. Livingston, College
of William and Mary).
8. Romanticism and Pantheism (Julia A. Lamm, Georgetown
University).
9. Roman Catholic Theology: Tübingen (Bradford E. Hinze,
Fordham University).
10. Russian Theology (Olga Nesmiyanova, Saint-Petersburg
School of Religion and Philosophy).
11. Evangelicalism (David W. Bebbington, University of
Stirling).
12. Kenotic Christology (David R. Law, University of
Manchester).
13. Mediating Anglicanism: Maurice, Gore, and Temple (Ulrike
Link-Wieczorek, University of Oldenburg).
14. Mediating Theology in Germany (Matthias Gockel,
University of Jena).
15. America: Confessional Theologies (James D. Bratt, Calvin
College).
16. America: Transcendentalism to Social Gospel (Robert W.
Jenson, formerly Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton).
17. Reformed Theology in Scotland and the Netherlands (Graham
Mc Farlane, London School of Theology).
18. Neo-Scholasticism (Ralph Del Colle, Marquette
University).
19. The Bible and Literary Interpretation (Stephen Prickett,
University of Glasgow).
20. Skeptics and Anti-Theologians (George Pattison,
University of Oxford).
21. History of Religion School (Mark D. Chapman, Ripon
College Cuddesdon, Oxford).
22. The Bible and Theology (John W. Rogerson, University of
Sheffield).
23. Liberal Theology in Germany (Christine Axt-Piscalar,
Georg-August University of Göttingen).
24. Catholic Modernism (Gerard Loughlin, Durham
University).
Index.
Despre autor
DAVID FERGUSSON
The editor is Professor of Divinity and Principal of New College at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author and editor of several books including Faith and Its Critics (2009), Scottish Philosophical Theology (2007), and Church, State and Civil Society (2004), and serves as a trustee of the Scottish Journal of Theology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.