Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit

The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-470-67331-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 616 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1232 g

Winner: 2012 The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religious Studies, PROSE Award.

In this thought-provoking new work, the world renowned theologian Gary Dorrien reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumental in the foundation and development of modern Christian theology.
- Presents a radical rethinking of the roots of modern theology
- Reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumental in the foundation and development of modern Christian theology
- Shows how it took Kant's writings on ethics and religion to launch a fully modern departure in religious thought
- Dissects Kant's three critiques of reason and his moral conception of religion
- Analyzes alternative arguments offered by Schleiermacher, Schelling, Hegel, and others - moving historically and chronologically through key figures in European philosophy and theology
- Presents notoriously difficult and intellectual arguments in a lucid and accessible manner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dorrien, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Deutscher Idealismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction: Kantian Concepts, Liberal Theology, and Post-Kantian Idealism 1

2 Subjectivity in Question: Immanuel Kant, Johann G. Fichte, and Critical Idealism 23

3 Making Sense of Religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Locke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Liberal Theology 84

4 Dialectics of Spirit: F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, and Absolute Idealism 159

5 Hegelian Spirit in Question: David Friedrich Strauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and Mediating Theology 243

6 Neo-Kantian Historicism: Albrecht Ritschl, Adolf von Harnack, Wilhelm Herrmann, Ernst Troeltsch, and the Ritschlian School 315

7 Idealistic Ordering: Lux Mundi, Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, Hastings Rashdall, Alfred E. Garvie, Alfred North Whitehead, William Temple, and British Idealism 378

8 The Barthian Revolt: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, and the Legacy of Liberal Theology 454

9 Idealistic Ironies: From Kant and Hegel to Tillich and Barth 530

Index 574

Über Autor(innen)

Dorrien, Gary
Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the highly-acclaimed trilogy The Making of Liberal Theology (2001, 2003, 2006), and Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 2010).