Continuing the Reformation: Essays on Modern Religious Thought - Couverture souple

Gerrish, B. A. A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226288714 ISBN 13 : 9780226288710

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

Modern Christian religious thought, B. A. Gerrish argues, has constantly revised the inherited faith. In these twelve essays, written or published in the 1980s, one of the most distinguished historical theologians of our time examines the changes that occurred as the Catholic tradition gave way to the Reformation and an interest in the phenomenon of believing replaced adherence to unchanging dogma.

Gerrish devotes three essays to each of four topics: Martin Luther and the Reformation; religious belief and the Age of Reason; Friedrich Schleiermacher and the renewal of Protestant theology; and Schleiermacher's disciple Ernst Troeltsch, for whom the theological task was to give a rigorous account of the faith prevailing in a particular religious community at a particular time. Gerrish shows how faith itself has become a primary object of inquiry, not only in the newly emerging philosophy of religion but also in a new style of church theology which no longer assumes that faith rests on immutable dogmas. For Gerrish, the new theology of Protestant liberalism takes for its primary object of inquiry the changing forms of the religious life. This important book will interest scholars of systematic Christian theology, modern intellectual and cultural history, and the history and philosophy of religion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

B. A. Gerrish is the John Nuveen Professor and professor of historical theology in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226288714
• ISBN 13: 9780226288710
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 299
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