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OverviewIn shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology, few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the nineteenth century. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing especially on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia's flagship university in the nineteenth century. In contradistinction to historians of modern higher education who often overlook theology, and to theologians who are frequently inattentive to the social and institutional contexts of religious thought, Thomas Albert Howard argues that modern university development and the trajectory of modern Protestant theology in Germany should be understood as interrelated phenomena. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Albert Howard (Professor of History, Gordon College, Massachusetts)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.758kg ISBN: 9780199554478ISBN 10: 0199554471 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 05 March 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsI. Introduction 1: Theology, Modernity, and the German University 2: On the State and Modern Science `in the German sense' 3: Plan of Study 4: Broader Considerations, or `the Pathos of Modern Theology' II. Sacra Facultas and the Coming of German Modernity Introduction 5: The Medieval Legacy 6: Humanism, the Reformation, and the Universities 7: The Eighteenth Century: Decline and Critique 8: The Way Forward: Halle and Gottingen 9: `Torchbearer or Trainbearer?' The Faculties and Immanuel Kant III. Wissenschaft, and the Founding of the University of Berlin Introduction 10: Revolutionary Times and the Ascendancy of Wissenschaft 11: `A New Creation' 12: Theology and the Idea of the University 13: Early Operations: Berlin's Theological Faculty, 1810-1819 14: `Renewing Protestantism': Schleiermacher and the Challenge of Modern Theological Education IV. An Erastian Modernity? Church, State, and Education in Early Nineteenth-Century Prussia Introduction 15: Church and State before 1806 16: 1806 and the Prussian Kultusministerium 17: `A Realm of the Intelligence': Minister Altenstein and his Legacy V. Theologia between Science and the State Introduction 18: Historical Trends and Developments, 1810-1918 19: The Rise and Fall of `Theological Encyclopedia' 20: History, Commemoration, and University 21: `The Age of German Footnotes': Visitors from Abroad, Admirers from Afar 22: `The Crisis of the Theological Faculty': Lagarde, Overbeck, and Harnack Conclusion: Janus GazingReviewsProtestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University makes a welcome contribution to understanding the oddness of theology in the context of the modern research university. --Donald Wibe, Toronto Journal of Theology<br> Howard's book is a welcome addition to studies of nineteenth-century Christian thought, modern intellectual history, and university history. Ably researched and skillfully written, the work distinguishes itself from common fare by its interdisciplinary reach. Howard's presentation is itself a thought-provoking testament to Berlin's legacy. --Church History<br> Howard's story tells how ingenious leaders, chiefly Friedrich Schleiermacher, rescued the study of theology when German universities made a wholesale turn toward dominance by science and the state. The ironic result was that German theology became an arbiter for all of Christendom while departments of theology in German universities were hanging on by their fingernails. Whether they sacrificed requisite independence to do so is the question that Howard raises masterfully at the end. --Christian Century<br> Author InformationThomas Albert Howard currently holds the Stephen Phillips Chair in history and is director of the Jerusalem & Athens Forum at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusettes. He is the author of Religion and the Rise of Historicism and Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University, winner of the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award for 2007. He is also the editor of The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue by Mark Noll and James Turner. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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