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The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher

Online ISBN:
9780191881282
Print ISBN:
9780198846093
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher

Andrew C. Dole (ed.),
Andrew C. Dole
(ed.)
Religious Studies, Amherst College
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Andrew C. Dole received a joint PhD in religious studies and philosophy from Yale. Since 2004 he has been teaching in the religion department at Amherst College in the area of modern Western religious thought. He teaches courses in the history of Christian thought, in the philosophy of religion, the cognitive science of religion, religion and conspiratorial thinking, and theories of religion. He is the author of Schleiermacher on Religion and the Natural Order (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Reframing the Masters of Suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

Shelli M. Poe (ed.),
Shelli M. Poe
(ed.)
Theology, Iliff School of Theology
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Shelli M. Poe is Visiting Professor at Iliff School of Theology (Denver, Colorado). She is the author of The Constructive Promise of Schleiermacher’s Theology (T&T Clark, 2021) and Essential Trinitarianism: Schleiermacher as Trinitarian Theologian (T&T Clark, 2017), and editor of Schleiermacher and Sustainability: A Theology for Ecological Living (Westminster John Knox, 2018). Her research interests include modern Protestant theology, Reformed theology, systematic theology, and constructive theologies.

Kevin M. Vander Schel (ed.)
Kevin M. Vander Schel
(ed.)
Religious Studies, Gonzaga University
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Kevin M. Vander Schel is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University. His research centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian thought, political theology, philosophy of religion, and theological hermeneutics. He is the author of Embedded Grace: Christ, History, and the Reign of God in Schleiermacher’s Dogmatics (Fortress Press, 2013), co-editor of The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good (University of Toronto Press, 2017), Theology, History, and the Modern German University (Mohr Siebeck, 2021), and, with Grant Kaplan, The Oxford History of Modern Germany Theology, Vol. I: 1781–1848 (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Published online:
18 December 2023
Published in print:
14 December 2023
Online ISBN:
9780191881282
Print ISBN:
9780198846093
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Abstract

Friedrich Schleiermacher is now regarded as among the most influential figures in the history of Christian thought for his contributions to theology, philosophy, and theories and methods in religious studies. The German-language critical edition of his work beginning in 1980, Schleiermacher Kritische Gesamtausgabe, and English translations of key portions of his corpus beginning in the late nineteenth century, have allowed scholars to investigate the richness of his thought. German scholars have often focused on Schleiermacher’s ties to early modern philosophy, his aesthetics, hermeneutics, and theory of religion, while English-speaking scholars have often focused on the theological influences and implications of Schleiermacher’s work. Over the last thirty years, both German and Anglophone scholars have been at work translating and analyzing key texts. This volume gathers authoritative interpretations of Schleiermacher’s work from both German and English-speaking scholars, bringing together the best that Schleiermacher scholarship has to offer. The first part, “Schleiermacher in Context,” offers a clear and nuanced understanding of Schleiermacher’s own historical and intellectual context. The second part, “Schleiermacher’s Thought,” presents a close analysis of the structure and content of Schleiermacher’s thought, in relation both to questions of method and particular theological themes and to broader inquiries in philosophy and the humanities. The third part, “Thinking after Schleiermacher,” provides an examination of the reception of his thought and of its contemporary implications for theology and the study of religion.

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