Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology

by Dorrien, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780470673317
• ISBN10: 0470673311
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In this thought-provoking new work, the world renowned theologian Gary Dorrien reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumental in the foundation and development of modern Christian theology. Presents a radical rethinking of the roots of modern theology Reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumen tal in the foundation and development of modern Christian theology Shows how it took Kant's writings on ethics and religion to launch a fully modern departure in religious thought Dissects Kant's three critiques of reason and his moral conception of religion Analyzes alternative arguments offered by Schleiermacher, Schelling, Hegel, and others - moving historically and chronologically through key figures in European philosophy and theology Presents notoriously difficult and intellectual arguments in a lucid and accessible manner

Author Biography

Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the highly-acclaimed trilogy The Making of Liberal Theology (2001, 2003, 2006), and Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 2010).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Kantian Concepts, Liberal Theology, and Post-Kantian Idealism	p. 1
Subjectivity in Question: Immanuel Kant, Johann G. Fichte, and Critical Idealism	p. 23
Making Sense of Religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Locke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Liberal Theology	p. 84
Dialectics of Spirit: F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, and Absolute Idealism	p. 159
Hegelian Spirit in Question: David Friedrich Strauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and Mediating Theology	p. 243
Neo-Kantian Historicism: Albrecht Ritschl, Adolf von Harnack, Wilhelm Herrmann, Ernst Troeltsch, and the Ritschlian School	p. 315
Idealistic Ordering: Lux Mundi, Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, Hastings Rashdall, Alfred E. Garvie, Alfred North Whitehead, William Temple, and British Idealism	p. 378
The Barthian Revolt: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, and the Legacy of Liberal Theology	p. 454
Idealistic Ironies: From Kant and Hegel to Tillich and Barth	p. 530
Index	p. 574
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