A Theology for the Bildungsbürgertum : : Albrecht Ritschl in Context / / Leif Svensson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Svensson, Leif,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann , 189
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 346 p.)

This book provides a new approach to Albrecht Ritschl’s theology. Leif Svensson argues that Ritschl’s theological project must be related to three cultural developments – historical criticism, materialism, and anti-Lutheran polemics – and understood in the context of the de-Christianization of the Bildungsbürgertum in nineteenth-century Germany. “Albrecht Ritschl remains the great unknown of nineteenth-century theology. In this important study, Leif Svensson sheds new light on Ritschl’s thought by relating it to contemporaneous social and cultural developments. Rooted in deep familiarity with German intellectual life of the time, the book convincingly illustrates the value of a history of theology that is mindful of its various contexts.”– Johannes ZachhuberUniversity of Oxford “I confess I was hesitant to blurb a book on Ritschl, but then I read it. Svensson’s well researched presentation of Ritschl’s thought is compelling and forceful. I highly recommend this book.”– Stanley HauerwasDuke Divinity School “Svensson’s work ably places Ritschl’s contribution to theology in the broader context of the intellectual and cultural history of the nineteenth century. Students of Protestant theology and thought and all interested in the complex relationship between Christian theology and modernity will learn something of value from this important study.”– Thomas Albert HowardValparaiso University

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: History -- Introduction -- 1. A New Turn in Historical Criticism -- 2. Ritschl’s Emancipation from the Tübingen School -- 3. Ritschl and the Quest for the Historical Jesus -- Part II: Metaphysics -- Introduction -- 4. Scientific Materialism and Late Idealism -- 5. Ritschl’s Late Idealist Metaphysics -- 6. Ritschl’s Rejection of Classical Metaphysical Theology -- Part III: Ethics -- Introduction -- 7. The Values of the Bildungsbürgertum -- 8. Ritschl’s Controversy with Lagarde -- 9. Ritschl’s Ethics in Context -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names