Christian Theology The Production of Knowledge about Historical Christianity
We now turn to Schleiermacher's thought in theology that appropriates dialectic and hermeneutics as its method in studying the distinct phenomenon of Protestant Christianity. Schleiermacher was ordained a Reformed pastor, and served as pastor from 1809 to1834 to the large Dreifaltigkeitskirche Church of the Triune God in Berlin, a mixed Lutheran and Reformed congregation. Yet Schleiermacher began to articulate his thoughts on religion in 1799 with the Speeches its lengthier title is, in...
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1 Stewart J. Brown, The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801-1846 New York Oxford University Press, 2002 . 2 See Frank M. Turner, The Newman of the Apologia and the Newman of History, in John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 2008 , 54-76. 3 John Henry Newman, Certain Difficulties Felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching Considered In Twelve Lectures Addressed in 1850 to the Party of the Religious Movement of...
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All works are by Soren Kierkegaard either pseudonymously or non- pseudonymously unless otherwise specified. 1 Quoted by Howard A. Johnson in his introduction to Soren Kierkegaard, Attack upon Christendom, trans. Walter Lowrie Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1968 , xxxiii. 2 A truly Kierkegaardian study of Kierkegaard's work should therefore itself be written in indirect communication and under a pseudonym 3 Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, I 627. 4 See...
The First Authorship Kierkegaards Authorship until 1846
Kierkegaard's first full-length published work was From the Papers of One Still Living 1838 , a critique of Hans Christian Andersen's novel Only a Fiddler, which Kierkegaard attacks for not having a life-view. This concern for a life-view, to find a truth worth living or dying for, as he puts it in an early journal entry,15 is a theme that runs through Kierkegaard's authorship. Kierkegaard's next significant work was his doctrinal dissertation The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to...
Philosophical Theology
Hegel's theology was formulated in conscious opposition to the deism of earlier Enlightenment thinkers, to Kant's reduction of religion to an aid to moral performance, and to Schleiermacher's perceived grounding of religion in subjective feeling. Moreover, it eschewed a return to the rationalist tradition which stressed the transcendence of the impassible God over against the finite, contingent creation. The key concept in Hegel's theology is that of spirit Geist . It has several connotations...