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God and Caesar - Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation (Hardcover)
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God and Caesar - Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation (Hardcover)
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H. Richard Niebuhr's powerful interpretation of Ernst Troeltsch has
shaped our view of the man for over seventy years. Troeltsch is one
of the most respected and renowned figures in liberal Protestant
thought. Yet as Harvard philosopher of religion Cornel West
observes in his foreword, Constance Benson "shat-ters certain
crucial aspects of Troeltsch's image as a liberal religious
thinker" with God and Caesar. Benson reconstructs the historical
context in which Troeltsch wrote his landmark The Social Teaching
of the Christian Churches, and reinterprets it in relation to that
context. She shows that Troeltsch's Christian-ity legitimized
class, religious, and gender inequality in response to the
challenges of social democracy. Her controversial exploration of
why most Troeltsch scholars have remained silent on this deserves
seri-ous consideration. Her discovery of Troeltsch's role in the
politics and ideological debates of Imperial Germany require a
painful reexamina-tion of an entire chapter of Protestant history.
Benson exposes Troeltsch's relationship to Paul de Lagarde, a
notorious anti-Semite and architect of what later became Nazi
ideology. God and Caesaris a needed corrective. Troeltsch is an
important figure for the Chris-tian right in Germany and for many
mainstream Protestants in the United States. Benson's courageous
book is the most challenging critique of Troeltsch's politics we
have-an unsettling perspective that forces us to revise the beloved
Troeltsch so many of us had come to admire and cherish. It will be
of interest to intellectual historians, theologians and students of
religious history, and specialists in German social and political
history.
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