Protestant thought in the nineteenth century /

Welch, Claude

Protestant thought in the nineteenth century / - New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972-©1985 - 2 volumes 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

volume. 1. 1799-1870. -- volume. 2. 1870-1914 The problem of a history of nineteenth-century theology -- The eighteenth-century background -- Schleiermacher's theological program -- Religious truth in image and concept: Hegel and the speculative theology -- Reasoning faith and faithful reason: Coleridge and the struggle against the eighteenth century -- God's moral government or man's goodness: Taylor and Channing -- The chain of history -- Humanism, religion, and culture -- Strategies for restoration and conservation confessionalism, repristination, and biblicism -- Towards a critical orthodoxy: Frederick Denision Maurice -- Toward a critical orthodoxy: Horace Bushnell -- Mediation, speculation, and criticism -- Subjectivity as truth and untruth. Soren Kierkegaard

A comprehensive account of the principal Protestant theological concerns and writers from 1870 to Word War I. Welch discusses both major and minor thinkers, placing them within such overarching themes as the nature of faith and the relationship of church and society. -Publisher

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Theology, Doctrinal--History--19th century
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Protestant churches--Doctrines--History

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