Ferdinand Christian Baur: A Reader - David Lincicum

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Résumé :
This reader of texts from the influential 19th-century theologian Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860) brings together a selection of texts in English translation from across Baur's wide range of exegetical, historical, philosophical and theological expertise. In these excerpts, including many translated for the first time, readers gain a comprehensive overview of Baur's output and his remarkable role in the shaping of modern scholarly discourse in his fields.

Beginning with a full scholarly introduction, and extensively annotated texts, readers are introduced to Baur's bold and controversial historical hypotheses and encounter the variety of intellectual and stylistic registers he used, from the purely scholarly to the sharply polemical. The editors also explore the ways in which Baur was instrumental in some of the most fundamental intellectual paradigm shifts of the 19th-century, including the radical historicization of Christian theology and its interaction with Schelling, Hegel, and the German Idealist tradition.

Biographie:
David Lincicum is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Johannes Zachhuber is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford, UK.

Sommaire:
Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations General Introduction I Philosophy of Religion 1. Mythology, History, and the Philosophy of Religion 2. Gnosis as Christian Philosophy of Religion 3. On the Idea of a Philosophy of Religion II. History of Dogma 4. Introduction to the History of Dogma 5. On the Doctrine of Reconciliation in its Historical Development 6. On the History of Trinitarian and Christological Doctrine III. New Testament Criticism 7. Prolegomena to New Testament Studies 8. Critical Gospel Studies 9. Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life and Works IV. Church History 10. On the History of Ecclesiastical Historiography 11. Christianity in its First Three Centuries V. Baur in the Controversies of his Time 12. Baur on Baur and his School 13. On Protestantism and Catholicism 14. In Defence of Critical Exegesis Bibliography Index