Nineteenth-Century Lutheran Theologians

by Matthew Becker (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays, a companion volume to the book, Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), examines important nineteenth-century figures from the perspective of contemporary European and North-American scholars. Each essay provides an overview of the life and central ideas of a key Lutheran/Protestant theologian who has had a significant impact on theological reflection down to the present. The focus here is on those thinkers who were active between 1799 (the year when Schleiermacher's Speeches appeared) and the First World War. These are individuals who deserve repeated examination, whose insights are still worth pondering today, and whose theological positions help us to understand better "where contemporary theology has come from" (Karl Barth). All of the essays were initiated by the journal Lutheran Quarterly in order to assess our theological heritage as we move further into a new millennium. The goal of the authors, each a leading theologian, has been to describe a given thinker's life and vocation and how that person's work continues to impact theology today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783525551301
Publisher:	V&R Academic
Publication date:	12/09/2015
Series:	Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS) , #31
Pages:	359
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Matthew L. Becker is associate professor of theology at the University of Valparaiso.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction Matthew L. Becker 7

Friedrich D.E. Schleiermacher (1768-1834) Christine Helmer 23

Georg W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) Mark Mattes 41

Nikolai F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) Anders Holm 67

Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860) Mark A. Seifrid 87

Gottfried Thomasius (1802-1875) Hans Schwarz 99

Johann Tobias Beck (1804-1878) Roy A. Harrisville 121

Adolf von Harless (1806-1879) Lutz Mohaupt 143

Wiihelm Löhe (-1808-1872) David Ratke 177

Johannes C.K. von Hofmann (1810-1877) Matthew L. Becker 189

Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (1811-1887) Christoph Barnbrock 213

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Carl S. Hughes 231

Theodosius Andreas Harnack (1817-1889) Christoffer H. Grundmann 255

Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889) Darrell Jodock 275

Charles Porterfield Krauth (1823-1883) Mark Oldenburg 295

Martin Kähler (1835-1912) Carl E. Braaten 309

Nathan Soderblom (1866-1931) Dietz Lange 327

List of Contributors 351

Index of Persons 355