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Troeltsch's Eschatological Absolute (Hardcover)
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Troeltsch's Eschatological Absolute (Hardcover)
Series: AAR Academy Series
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Ernst Troeltsch is widely recognized as having played an important
role in the development of modern Protestant theology, but his
contribution is usually understood as largely critical of
traditional modes of theological inquiry. He is best known for his
historicist critique of dogmatic theology, and seen either as the
closing chapter of nineteenth-century liberalism, or as a
proto-postmodernist. Central to this pivotal period in modern
theology stands the problem: how can we articulate a doctrine of
ultimate reality such that a meaningful and coherent account of the
world is available without our understanding of God thereby
becoming conditioned by the world itself? Evan Kuehn demonstrates
that historiographical assumptions about twentieth-century
religious thought have obscured the coherence and relevance of
Troeltsch's understanding of God, history, and eschatology. An
eschatological understanding of the Absolute, Kuehn contends,
stands at the heart of Troeltsch's theology and the problem of
historicism with which it is faced. Troeltsch's eschatological
Absolute must be understood in the context of questions that were
being raised at the turn of the twentieth century both by research
on New Testament apocalypticism, and by modern critical
methodologies in the historical sciences. His theory of the
Absolute is central to his views on religion and religious ethics
and provides practitioners of constructive studies in religion with
important resources for engaging with sociological and historical
studies, where Troeltsch's status as a classical figure is widely
recognized.
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