{"product_id":"the-rebirth-of-revelation-german-theology-in-an-age-of-reason-and-history-1750-1850-hardback-9781487543075","title":"The Rebirth of Revelation; German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750-1850 (Hardback) 9781487543075","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Rebirth of Revelation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGerman Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750-1850\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTuska Benes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487543075\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 February 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 2 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 3 b\u0026amp;w maps\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.7 x 3 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Benes focuses on the period between 1750 and 1850 in the German lands, which boasted some of the most important intellectual minds of the period. They include Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kant, Herder, Schleiermacher, and Hegel. The most intriguing part of Benes\u0026amp;#x2019;s book, however, is not the responses of these intellectual giants; rather, her approach is. She provides a much broader picture, including the religious struggles that haunted Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish intellectual communities at the time.\" - Ulrich Groetsch, University of North Alabama (\u003cem\u003eCentral European History\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite being a pillar of belief in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the idea of revelation was deeply discredited over the course of the Enlightenment. The post-Enlightenment restoration of revelation among German religious thinkers is a fascinating yet underappreciated moment in modern efforts to navigate between reason and faith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rebirth of Revelation \u003c\/i\u003ecompares Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish reflections on revelation from 1750 to 1850 and asserts that a strategic transformation in the term\u0026amp;#x2019;s meaning secured its relevance for the modern age. Tuska Benes argues that \"propositional\" revelation, understood as the infallible dispensation of doctrine, gave way to revelation as a subjective process of inner transformation or the historical disclosure of divine being in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy comparatively approaching the unconventional ways in which Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism have rehabilitated the concept of revelation, \u003ci\u003eThe Rebirth of Revelation \u003c\/i\u003erestores theology to a central place in modern European intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Historical Revelation in the Protestant Enlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReason and Revelation: Spinoza, Leibniz, and Wolff\u003cbr\u003eReimarus and the Neologians on Pagan Salvation\u003cbr\u003eG.E. Lessing on the Historicity of Revelation\u003cbr\u003eThe Kantian Critique of Revelation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Comparative History of Religion, 1770–1800\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Hume and the Comparative History of Religion \u003cbr\u003eJ.G. Herder\u0026amp;#x2019;s Älteste Urkunde des Menschengeschlechts (1774)\u003cbr\u003eThe Comparative Religious History of Christoph Meiners\u003cbr\u003eJ.A. Starck and J.G. Hamann on Rational Ur-Monotheism\u003cbr\u003eThe Göttingen School of Comparative Religious History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. God\u0026amp;#x2019;s Word in Comparative Mythology, 1760–1830\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Divine Origins of Language: Hamann and Herder\u003cbr\u003eThe Ursprache and Mosaic Revelation: Friedrich Schlegel\u003cbr\u003eJ.A. Kanne\u0026amp;#x2019;s Elusive Ursprache\u003cbr\u003eThe Language of Revelation Nationalized: Friedrich Rückert\u003cbr\u003eThe Symbolism of God\u0026amp;#x2019;s Word: Joseph Görres\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Revelation in Nature from Physicotheology to G.H. Schubert\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural Theology and the Collapse of Intelligent Design\u003cbr\u003eRestoring Revelation to Naturphilosophie\u003cbr\u003eNature Divested of Sacred Tradition\u003cbr\u003eG.H. Schubert in the Spinoza Renaissance\u003cbr\u003ePhysica Sacra: The Urwelt, Creation, and Scripture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Philosophy of Revelation: Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Schelling \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSchleiermacher: Revelation as Subjective Experience\u003cbr\u003eThe Self-Revelation of God in Hegel\u003cbr\u003eThe Dark Ground of Revelation in Schelling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Epistemology of Grace: Revelation in Catholic Theology, 1770–1850\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnlightened Catholicism and the Semi-Rationalist Defense of Revelation\u003cbr\u003eThe Moral Necessity of Revelation for Georg Hermes\u003cbr\u003eThe Comparative History of Religion in Enlightened Catholic Theology\u003cbr\u003eSyncretism in Post-Kantian Catholic Histories of Religion\u003cbr\u003eCatholic Philosophies of Revelation: Anton Günther and J.S. Drey\u003cbr\u003eThe Neo-Scholasticism of Joseph Kleutgen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Revelation in Jewish Religious Thought from Mendelssohn to Geiger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevelation and the Law: Moses Mendelssohn\u003cbr\u003eKant and Pre-Mosaic Revelation: Saul Ascher \u003cbr\u003eSalomon Ludwig Steinheim on Primordial Revelation\u003cbr\u003eRevelation as Historical Experience: Samson Raphael Hirsch \u003cbr\u003eJewish Philosophies of Revelation: Salomon Formstecher and Samuel Hirsch \u003cbr\u003eThe Genius of Revelation: Abraham Geiger \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Revelation Imperiled in Protestant Religious Thought, 1820–1850\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevelation and Neo-Confessionalism: August Tholuck \u003cbr\u003eThe Self-Revelation of Humanity: Ludwig Feuerbach\u003cbr\u003eSøren Kierkegaard: Revelation in Existentialist Thought \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739852796184,"sku":"9781487543075","price":39.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-rebirth-of-revelation-german-theology-in-an-age-of-reason-and-history-1750-1850-hardback-9781487543075","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}