Kantian reason and Hegelian spirit
Subtitle: the idealistic logic of modern theology
By: Gary Dorrien
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780470673317
Subjects: Philosophical theology; Influence
Description: Winner: 2012The 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 instrumen t al 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Kantian concepts, liberal theology, and post-Kantian idealism; title: Subjectivity in question: Immanuel Kant, Johann G. Fichte, and critical idealism; title: Making sense of religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Locke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and liberal theology; title: Dialectics of spirit: F.W.J. Schelling, G.W.F. Hegel, and absolute idealism; title: Hegelian spirit in question: David Friedrich Strauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and mediating theology; title: Neo-Kantian historicism: Albrecht Ritschl, Adolf von Harnack, Wilhelm Herrmann, Ernst Troeltsch, and the Ritschlian school; title: Idealistic ordering: Lux Mundi, Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, Hastings Rashdall, Alfred E. Garvie, Alfred North Whitehead, William Temple, and British idealism; title: The Barthian revolt: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, and the legacy of liberal theology; title: Idealistic ironies: from Kant and Hegel to Tillich and Barth.