The Devil's whore
Subtitle: reason and philosophy in the Lutheran tradition
By: Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, editor
Series: Studies in Lutheran history and theology; Studies in Lutheran history and theology
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780800698508
Subjects: Philosophical theology; Continental philosophy; Philosophy and religion; Christian philosophy; Lutheran Church
Description: "Martin Luther's disdain for philosophy is well known, and the Lutheran theological tradition has been wary of its constructs. Yet the tradition also includes philosophical giants-from Melanchthon to Schleiermacher to Kierkegaard and even Nietzsche. This volume assumes that such skepticism about reason actually opened up new ways of doing and seeing philosophy. Philosophers, theologians, and historians assess the paradox and achievements of philosophy in the Lutheran vein. In their important exploration in the history of ideas, they not only probe the roots and branches of Luther's own ambivalence toward philosophy, they also draw illuminating connections between his revolutionary theology and the development of European continental philosophy"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- David M. Hockenbery; title: Philosophical modes of thought of Luther's theology as an object of inquiry  -- Oswald Bayer; title: Does Luther have a "waxen nose?" Historical and philosophical contextualizations of Luther  -- Christine Helmer; title: "Putting on the neighbor": the Ciceronian impulse in Luther's Christian approach to practical reason  -- Gary M. Simpson; title: Luther and Augustine -- revisited  -- Markus Wriedt; title: Whore or handmaid? Luther and Aquinas on the function of reason in theology  -- Denis R. Janz; title: Luther's "atheism"  -- Paul R. Hinlicky; title: Luther's philosophy of language  -- Dennis Bielfeldt; title: Philipp Melanchthon: the first Lutheran philosopher  -- Charles Peterson; title: Reasoning faithfully: Leibniz on reason's triumph of faith and love  -- Lea F. Schweitz; title: Means of revolution: Luther and Kant on the function of the law  -- Troy Dahlke; title: Faith, freedom, conscience: Luther, Fichte, and the principle of inwardness  -- Christian Lotz; title: Hegel and Luther on the finite and the infinite  -- John F. Hoffmeyer; title: "Faith creates the deity": Luther and Feuerbach  -- Carter Lindberg; title: Søren Kierkegaard: between skepticism and faith's happy passion  -- David J. Gouwens; title: Delicious despair and nihilism: Luther, Nietzsche, and the task of living philosophically  -- Gregory Johnson; title: Heidegger's existential domestication of Luther  -- David Vessey; title: Vocation of the philosopher  -- William R. Russell; title: Lutheran environmental philosophy  -- Sarah E. Fredericks; title: Luther and philosophy in a scientific age  -- Gregory R. Peterson; title: Queering kenosis: Luther and Foucault on power and identity  -- Mary Elise Lowe; title: Philosophical kinship: Luther, Schleiermacher, and feminists on reason  -- Mary J. Streufert; title: Provocateur for the common good: reflections on the vocation of an academic philosopher  -- Pauline M. Kaurin; title: Luther and the vocation of public philosophy  -- Martin E. Marty -- Epilogue: The; title: quandary of Lutheran philosophy -- Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth.