The Veiled God

Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theology of Finitude
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39781-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Studies in Systematic Theology

In The Veiled God, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft offers a detailed portrait of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s early life, ethics, and theology in its historical and social context. She also critically reflects on the enduring relevance of his work for the study of religion.


The book analyses major texts from Schleiermacher’s early work. It argues that his experiments with literary form convey his understanding that human knowledge is inherently social, and that religion is thoroughly linguistic and historical. The book contends that by making finitude (and not freedom) a universal aspect to human life, Schleiermacher offers rich conceptual resources for considering what it means to be human in this world, both in relations of difference to others, and in relation to the infinite.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson Ravenscroft, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works

Introduction

Freedom and Particularity in Schleiermacher’s Early Ethical Anthropology

Introduction to Part 1

Delineating the Ethical and the Theological

1Disciplinary Boundaries

2A Godless Europe

Schleiermacher’s Religious Doubt

1From Barby to Halle

2‘To Cecilie’

Quarrels with Kant on Freedom

1Necessity, Freedom, and Human Identity

2Schleiermacher’s Kant and the Otherworldly Subject

3Schleiermacher’s Quarrel with Kant on Freedom

4Temporality, Dialogue and Human Identity

5On Desire and Moral Motivation

Conclusion

Human Formation and Literary Form in Schleiermacher’s Soliloquies(1800)

Introduction to Part 2

Freedom and Formation Anew

1Beyond the Moral Law, and the Idea of Universal Reason

2Freedom and Rationality

3The Role of Language in the Ethical Life

4A New Approach to Freedom

Schleiermacher’s Commitment to Bildung

1Bildung in Berlin

2The Meaning of Bildung

3The Self Negotiated in Society

4Schleiermacher, Bildung, and the Question of Gender

5Schleiermacher’s Project on the Colony in “New Holland”

The Soliloquies

1An Idealistic Performance

2Imagination and Individualism

3Individuality and Immeasurability

Conclusion

Dialogue and Incarnation

Introduction to Part 3

Schleiermacher’s Dialogic Vision

1A Household at Christmas

2A Platonic Scheme?

3Authorial Passivity

4A Review from Kierkegaard

Seeking the Infinite in the Midst of the Finite

1Schleiermacher’s Speeches On Religion

2Interreligious Dialogue in Berlin

A Theology of Finitude

1Barth’s Critique of the Christmas Dialogue

2Music and the Transcendent

Conclusion

Epilogue

List of Cited Works

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft is a Research Fellow in Theology at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project ‘Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture’, having received her PhD from Cambridge in 2016.