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Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit
The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology

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Please include the flash for the PROSE Award (like we did with the award for the McGuckin NiP) and the following review:

“Graduate students and philosophy of religion students will find this book indispensable.  Summing Up: Essential.”  CHOICE

 Back panel endorsements
“This is a brilliant and much needed book. Dorrien’s magisterial achievements to date lend his voice a special authority, but in this book, the reader is simply compelled by the deft interplay of nuance and overview.” Catherine Keller, Drew University

“Gary Dorrien is a superstar interpreter of modern religious thought. This unique, fascinating, aggressively revisionary book will have no competition until books appear to argue against it.”
Frederick Ferré, University of Georgia

“This book is a brilliant and much needed account of the influence of Immanuel Kant and the tradition of post-Kantian idealism on modern theology.”William Stacy Johnson, Princeton Theological Seminary

“No one else I know could have written this book, which will be the dominant treatment of its subject. Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit is a magisterial interpretive history of one of the most important theological deltas of our time.” Robert C. Neville, Boston University

“In its lucidity, comprehensiveness and narrative power, Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit is without equal. One can only marvel.” Cyril O’Regan, Commonweal

 

Gary Dorrien (Author)

9781119016540, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 27 February 2015

616 pages
24.6 x 17.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.943 kg

“Nonetheless, the thoroughness of this volume and the cogency of its arguments make it an absolute must for theology students.”  (Religious Studies Review, 27 February 2014)

“Dorrien's book-which I cannot avoid calling brilliant-will hold the same enduring place in giving an historical justification for his "modern theology" that Barth's Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century holds in setting the table for Barth's dogmatics. Time will tell whether the future belongs to Dorrien's theology, Barth's (in historical or repristinated form), or some other.”  (Themelios, 1 August 2013)

“Graduate students and philosophy of religion students will find this book indispensable.  Summing Up:  Essential.  All libraries supporting graduate programs in theology and religion.”  (Choice, 1 February 2013)

Winner: 2012 The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religious Studies, PROSE Award.

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 instrumental 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

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction: Kantian Concepts, Liberal Theology, and Post-Kantian Idealism 1

2 Subjectivity in Question: Immanuel Kant, Johann G. Fichte, and Critical Idealism 23

3 Making Sense of Religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Locke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Liberal Theology 84

4 Dialectics of Spirit: F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, and Absolute Idealism 159

5 Hegelian Spirit in Question: David Friedrich Strauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and Mediating Theology 243

6 Neo-Kantian Historicism: Albrecht Ritschl, Adolf von Harnack, Wilhelm Herrmann, Ernst Troeltsch, and the Ritschlian School 315

7 Idealistic Ordering: Lux Mundi, Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, Hastings Rashdall, Alfred E. Garvie, Alfred North Whitehead, William Temple, and British Idealism 378

8 The Barthian Revolt: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, and the Legacy of Liberal Theology 454

9 Idealistic Ironies: From Kant and Hegel to Tillich and Barth 530

Index 574

Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]

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