Religion and the Rise of Historicism
Subtitle: W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521650229
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History: theory & methods; Philosophy Of History; Europe - General; Religion - Theology; History: World; Europe; Historicism; Christian Theology - History; Burckhardt, Jacob; De Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht; History / Europe / General; Christianity - Theology - General; Religion - General; Religious aspects; Historiography; 1780-1849; Christianity; De Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leber; De Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht,; History
First sentence: IN 1836, AN ARTICLE IN THE Boston Unitarian periodical, The Christian Examiner, reported to American readers the scholarly achievements of the University of Berlin founded twenty-six years earlier: "The Berlin University numbers illustrious names among its teachers and professors.