TY - BOOK AU - Benes,Tuska TI - The rebirth of revelation: German theology in an age of reason and history, 1750-1850 T2 - German and European studies SN - 1487543085 AV - BR855 .B46 2022 U1 - 274.307 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Toronto, Buffalo, London PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Theology KW - Germany KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - Revelation KW - History of doctrines KW - Reason KW - Théologie KW - Allemagne KW - Histoire KW - 18e siècle KW - 19e siècle KW - Révélation KW - Histoire des doctrines KW - Raison KW - RELIGION / History KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Catholicism KW - Judaism KW - Protestantism KW - comparative religion KW - crisis of historicism KW - history of theology KW - natural history KW - nineteenth-century Germany KW - philosophy of religion KW - reason KW - revelation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - "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."-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3125922 ER -