... whose rules were binding for ‘scientific’ theology as well. In this situation, a reconfiguration of theological historicism occurred in the work of Albrecht Ritschl and theology continued to work within the historicist paradigm. Only the more fundamental criticism directed by Franz Overbeck...

... chapters as representative of the liberal tradition truly are representative. The first of these three concerns is a turn to the subject, exemplified by Schleiermacher. The chapter describes briefly his two major works, the Speeches and The Christian Faith. Ritschl...

...The final chapter of the book argues that this major theological synthesis was strained from the beginning and that Ritschl’s own later development as well as the work of some of his most influential pupils can be understood as a process of giving up on that historical-systematic synthesis...

...The book describes the origin, development, and crisis of the German nineteenth-century project of theology as science. Its narrative is focused on the two predominant theological schools during this period, the Tübingen School and the Ritschl School. Their work emerges as a grand attempt...

...This chapter, the first in the book’s second part, analyses Albrecht Ritschl’s understanding of theology as Wissenschaft. Ritschl’s complex relationship with his sometime teacher, F. C. Baur is then explored through a full analysis of his polemical exchange with E. Zeller over...

... Johann Christoph Friedrich von Hegel George W F Schleiermacher Friedrich science Bushnell Horace hell Lamartine Alphonse de romanticism Tilliette Xavier Gethsemane Ritschl Albrecht Nietzsche Friedrich Wagner Richard Buddha Buddhism Goethe Johann Wolfgang Schopenhauer Arthur Anglicanism...

... and experiential over evidential apologetics. One final innovation was the adoption of Albrecht Ritschl’s claim that Jesus had come to found the kingdom of God, which boosted environmental social activism. The shift from Enlightenment to romanticism, which provoked considerable controversy, illustrated how...

...This chapter seeks to show how the dogmatic content of Ritschl’s system is closely bound up both with his historical and his philosophical ideas. To this end, the chapter is focused on Ritschl’s central idea of the Kingdom of God. Its principal significance is first established on the basis...

... of significant writers: Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G. W. F. Hegel, Albrecht Ritschl, and Wilhelm Herrmann. It concludes by reflecting upon the key insights which this trajectory of creative thinking has contributed to the enterprise of Christian theology. Christology criticism ecclesiology...

... theology. liberalism Semler Johann Salomo anthropology Barth Johann Friedrich Fritz Berlin Catholicism conscience culture faith freedom Harnack Adolf von Herrmann Wilhelm Marburg morality Paul peace premodern reason Ritschl Albrecht Rothe Richard subjectivity First World War Grau...

... with the publication of major works by Ritschl and Schleiermacher. Thereafter the firm’s publishing programme became more influenced by confessional forms of theology, particularly through its translation of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. Its legacy, however, remains not only in the form of Barth...

...This chapter examines Ritschl’s claims (a) that Christianity enables persons to rise above nature and experience a new kind of wholeness; (b) that faith in God’s forgiveness is crucial to this rising-above, since one who is forgiven can trust God as Father and, so, trust God’s providence when...

... by it, as self-expressive. Modern theologians such as Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Ritschl, and Tillich thus offer accounts (a) of how one’s life would have to hang together such that one could identify with it; (b) of the oppositions which stand in the way of such hanging together; (c) of God as the one by whom...

... Friedrich Albert Lange Johann Peter Ritschl Albrecht Jesus of Nazareth Schweitzer Albert Barth Karl liberalism theological Overbeck Franz dialectical theology historicism Weiss Johannes Kant Immanuel Kingdom of God Blumenberg Hans Kerr Nathan Morse Christopher teleology transcendence...

... how these logical structures of the validity of the experience of the Absolute are actualized in religious life. experience religious relativism Herrmann Wilhelm Kant Immanuel Schleiermacher Friedrich faith Ritschlian school science metaphysics religious a priori Overbeck Franz Ritschl...

.... Reconstructions of Varro's disciplinae Ritschl's Varro Hadot's Varro Martianus' allusions to Varro, and parallels Shanzer's Varro (external evidence) grammar (358) Isidore Martianus Augustine (162–3) no evidence for its place in the Disciplinarum Libri...

... Karl Marxism reason bourgeois religion calling vocation conscience demonic personality Luther’s Dilthey Wilhelm Erlangen school theology God Harnack Adolf von Herder Johann Gottfried historicism Holl Karl Luther Renaissance Nietzsche Friedrich Ranke Leopold von Ritschl Albrecht...

... wars of religion criticism crucifixion deism deists Holy Spirit immanence neo Protestantism Nicene Creed Rahner Karl Reformers Ritschl Albrecht Sacramentalism Schillebeeckx Edward Schleiermacher Friedrich Daniel Ernst Trinity Antiochene theology authority confessions confessionalism...

...This chapter contains a detailed examination of the philosophical ideas underlying Ritschl’s theology as well as their context in late idealist and post-idealistic philosophical debates in the 1840s and 50s. It explores in detail four main elements of Ritschl’s philosophical outlook, his ontology...

... nineteenth-century representatives, most notably Richard Rothe and Albrecht Ritschl. It then explores the reappraisal of this tradition at the beginning of the twentieth century by Adolf von Harnack and Ernst Troeltsch. Finally, it takes up contemporary perspectives and considers the resurgent interest...