Confessional Lutheranism and German Theological Wissenschaft: Adolf Harleﾟ, August Vilmar, and Johannes Christian Konrad Von Hofmann (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783110760538)

This book investigates the relationship between nineteenth-century German theological Wissenschaft and the emergence of confessional Lutheranism. This study argues that the first generation of confessional Lutherans contributed to the discourse over the nature of theological Wissenschaft. Part I examines the intellectual context of nineteenth-century theological Wissenschaft. Chapter 2 presents Kant's and Schelling's conceptions of Wissenschaft in relationship to theology. Chapter 3 analyzes Schleiermacher's contribution to the debate about the integrity of theology as a Wissenschaft, and concludes by considering the developments represented by F.C. Baur and Albrecht Ritschl. Part II investigates the different Lutheran approaches to theological Wissenschaft represented by Adolf Harle , August Vilmar, and Johannes von Hofmann. Chapter 4 examines Harle 's Theologische Encyklop臈ie as the first expression towards a confessional Lutheran Wissenschaft. Chapter 5 highlights Vilmar's antagonistic posture towards modern German theology, while attending to his construction of an alternative approach to modern theology. Chapters 6 and 7 contextualize Hofmann against the landscape of German theology, while situating his theological Wissenschaft within his contentious work Der Schriftbeweis. Chapter 8 reflects upon these efforts at establishing a theological Wissenschaft in service to the church and the university.

Author: James Ambrose Lee II
ISBN-10: 3110760533
ISBN-13: 9783110760538
Publisher: de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2022
Pages: 317
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d