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The rebirth of revelation : German theology in an age of reason and history, 1750-1850 / Tuska Benes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: German and European studies ; 45.Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 1487543085
  • 9781487543099
  • 1487543093
  • 9781487543082
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rebirth of revelation.DDC classification:
  • 274.307 23
LOC classification:
  • BR855 .B46 2022
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Historical Revelation in the Protestant Enlightenment -- Chapter Two. The Comparative History of Religion, 1770-1800 -- Chapter Three. God's Word in Comparative Mythology, 1760-1830 -- Chapter Four. Revelation in Nature from Physicotheology to G.H. Schubert -- Chapter Five. The Philosophy of Revelation: Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Schelling -- Chapter Six. The Epistemology of Grace: Revelation in Catholic Theology, 1770-1850 -- Chapter Seven. Revelation in Jewish Religious Thought from Mendelssohn to Geiger -- Chapter Eight. Revelation Imperilled in Protestant Religious Thought, 1820-1850 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: "Revelation is a pillar of belief in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Historians regularly write that the Enlightenment dethroned it as the basis for knowledge of God and the world, replacing or at least supplementing it with reason. What Benes demonstrates is that in the late eighteenth century religious thinkers across the three main German confessions (Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism) rehabilitated the concept in important if untraditional ways. These thinkers were not entirely successful in reconciling reason, revelation, and history. A new generation of philosophers, including Feuerbach and Kierkegaard, attacked the concept again in the nineteenth century. But a secularized concept of revelation persisted and influenced numerous disciplines beyond theology, including history, linguistics, and natural philosophy (e.g. science). The dismantling of propositional revelation bestowed the privileges and agency once reserved for God onto human subjects, relegating religion to cultural practice, not divine truth. In addition to its comprehensive approach, Benes's manuscript stands-out for addressing not just the Protestant majority but also Catholic and Jewish thinking on revelation, highlighting both the common themes and the ways in which their intellectual trajectory differed."-- Provided by publisher.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3125922

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Revelation is a pillar of belief in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Historians regularly write that the Enlightenment dethroned it as the basis for knowledge of God and the world, replacing or at least supplementing it with reason. What Benes demonstrates is that in the late eighteenth century religious thinkers across the three main German confessions (Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism) rehabilitated the concept in important if untraditional ways. These thinkers were not entirely successful in reconciling reason, revelation, and history. A new generation of philosophers, including Feuerbach and Kierkegaard, attacked the concept again in the nineteenth century. But a secularized concept of revelation persisted and influenced numerous disciplines beyond theology, including history, linguistics, and natural philosophy (e.g. science). The dismantling of propositional revelation bestowed the privileges and agency once reserved for God onto human subjects, relegating religion to cultural practice, not divine truth. In addition to its comprehensive approach, Benes's manuscript stands-out for addressing not just the Protestant majority but also Catholic and Jewish thinking on revelation, highlighting both the common themes and the ways in which their intellectual trajectory differed."-- Provided by publisher.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Historical Revelation in the Protestant Enlightenment -- Chapter Two. The Comparative History of Religion, 1770-1800 -- Chapter Three. God's Word in Comparative Mythology, 1760-1830 -- Chapter Four. Revelation in Nature from Physicotheology to G.H. Schubert -- Chapter Five. The Philosophy of Revelation: Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Schelling -- Chapter Six. The Epistemology of Grace: Revelation in Catholic Theology, 1770-1850 -- Chapter Seven. Revelation in Jewish Religious Thought from Mendelssohn to Geiger -- Chapter Eight. Revelation Imperilled in Protestant Religious Thought, 1820-1850 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index