Luther, Barth, and Movements of Theological Renewal (1918-1933) / / ed. by Heinrich Assel, Bruce L. McCormack.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Assel, Heinrich,; Congdon, David W.,; Leppin, Volker,; Mariña, Jacqueline,; McCormack, Bruce L.,; Neddens, Christian,; Sufrin, Claire E.,; Svinth-Værge Põder, Christine,; Theißen, Henning,; Vries, Hent de,; Wiedebach, Hartwig,
• HerausgeberIn: Assel, Heinrich,; McCormack, Bruce L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann , 188
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

The essays contained in this book originated as lectures at an international conference held in Princeton organized by Christine Helmer (Northwestern) and the editors of this book. This book itself illuminates in a fresh way the formation, cross-fertilization, break-up, and re-organization of movements of theological renewal during the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic. Three Protestant movements, in particular, demand our attention: the dialectical theology (Karl Barth, Friedrich Gogarten, Rudolf Bultmann); the Luther Renaissance which found adherents amongst the students of Karl Holl (Hans Joachim Iwand, Rudolf Herrmann and Emmanuel Hirsch) and Lutheran confessional movement (Werner Elert and Paul Althaus). Attention is also given to Bultmann’s close conversation-partner Martin Heidegger. Rounding out the picture thus drawn is Martin Buber, representing the Jewish Renaissance that flourished briefly in the Weimar years. The goal of this book is twofold: to trace the most significant developments that occurred within and across these movements and, most importantly, to assess the uses made of Luther’s theology in all phases of these developments and in relation to dramatically different sets of issues (ranging from the doctrines of revelation, reconciliation and sin to theories of the state). We find Luther at the heart of a number of debates. So important was he that the divergences between and within the various movements can rightly be seen as a dispute over his legacy. Most of the theologians and philosophers treated in this book were educated in the pre-war years - and some at least of what they learned survived in a transfigured form the impact of the collapse of the Wilhelminian Empire. That is especially clear in the impact of the Jeiwsh philosopher of religion Hermann Cohen on K. Barth, R. Bultmann, and R. Hermann. During the years of peace (prior to the stock market crash in 1929), divergences could be accepted with some degree of equanimity by most of those engaged in renewal. To be sure, tensions already existed which could, at any time, have led to splits within the dialectical theology most especially - but did not have to do so. The commentary of R. Bultmann on F. Gogarten’s Ich glaube an den dreieinigen Gott, which is published for the first time in this volume, gives vivid expression to these latent tendencies. For the time being, however, a spirit of cooperation and rigorous academic engagement prevailed. That changed with the onset of the Great Depression. After the national election held on 14 September1930 (which saw the National Socialists become the second largest party in the Reichstag, the fortunes of all movements were increasingly held hostage to the uses made of theology to devise theological accounts of the state which stood in differing degrees of support or open resistance to government policy. The result was a realignment of forces within church and theology

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Anticipations -- Karl Barth on Kant’s “Biblical Theology” A Reading with Hermann Cohen -- The Religious A Priori in Otto and its Kantian Origins -- Luther’s Lectures on Romans in the Work of Karl Holl, Rudolf Hermann, and Karl Barth -- Part II: Parallel Movements -- Barth’s Explicit Reception of Luther -- Martin Buber between Revelation and Scripture -- Luther and Mysticism -- Desperatio Fiducialis -- Part III: Disruption -- Theologia paradoxa, theologia crucis -- The Man who became God or the God who became Man? -- Trinity, Incarnation, Political Theology -- Werner Elert and Hans Joachim Iwand – Political Theology and Theology of the Cross -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index of Names