Faith, Truth, and Freedom: The Expulsion of Professor Gerd Ludemann from the Theology Faculty at Gottingen University: Symposium and Documents - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1586842188 ISBN 13 : 9781586842185

Editeur : Global Academic Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Examines the expulsion of Professor Gerd Lüdemann from the Theology Faculty at the University of Göttingen.

Faith, Truth, and Freedom: The Expulsion of Professor Gerd Lüdemann from the Theology Faculty at Göttingen University sets forth the documentary record of a signal, significant event in the academic study of religion in the universities of the West. That event is the expulsion of Professor Gerd Lüdemann from the Theology Faculty at the University of Göttingen by reason of the content of his academic writing and lecturing on the history and theology of earliest Christianity. He was expelled from his post as professor of the New Testament and assigned a professorship of the history and literature of Early Christianity, thereby losing all his academic rights and being forced into a ghetto existence within the theological faculty. The expulsion of a professor from his academic post, because of the public consequence of his scholarship for an academic and also a religious body, raises a variety of issues for the academy and for the Church as well as for public policy. What is at issue is the academic study of religion and theology, specifically, the possibility of an authentically academic theological enterprise: can religion be studied by the rules of the academy? This book collects not only Professor Lüdemann's account of matters, but also the response of the Dean of the Protestant Theological Faculty at Göttingen, a score of comments by colleagues originally writing in the Anglo-American journal, Religion, newspaper reports and commentary, with all sides of the debate being represented.

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Professor Marvin Fox received his B.A. in philosophy in 1942 from Northwestern University, the M.A. in the same field in 1946, and the Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1950 in that field as well. His education in Judaic texts was certified by rabbinical ordination as Rabbi by the Hebrew Theological College of Chicago in 1942. He served as a Jewish Chaplain in the US Army Air Force during World War II from 1942 to 1946. He taught at Ohio State University from 1948 through 1974, rising from Instructor to Professor of Philosophy. During those years he served also as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar Ilan University (1970-1971). In 1974 he came to Brandeis University as Appleman Professor of Jewish Thought, and from 1976 onward he has held the Lown Professorship. He has received numerous academic awards, lectured widely at universities and at national and international academic conferences and served as Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities National Board of Consultants for new programs at colleges and universities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Global Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1586842188
• ISBN 13: 9781586842185
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 169
• Éditeur: Neusner Jacob
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