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Die Entstehung der ungarischen traditionellen Theologie

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

This study seeks to explore the origin and formation of the so called “Hungarian traditional” theology within the Reformed Church of Hungary from the 1840s till the 1860s. The research paper also throws light on how the new orthodoxy movement of Debrecen grew out of this trend from the 1870s which had an enormous impact on the Protestant theologica...

The Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

The Rise of Scientific Materialism and Its Long-Term Effect on the Development of German Theology

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

In diesem Aufsatz wird den Enfluss der steigenden kulturellen Autorität des naturwissenschaften Erkenntnisses auf die Entwicklung der deutschen evangelishen Theologie im Laufe des 19. Jahrunderts untersucht mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Albrecht Ritschl und seine theologische Nachfolger, Wilhelm Herrmann, Ernst Troeltsch, und Rudolf Otto. Dieser Ein...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Auf dem Weg zur Freiheit. Ein Portrait

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

Tetsutarō Ariga and Christian Studies at Kyoto University after World War II

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

Der Aufsatz behandelt das Konzept der „Christentumswissenschaft“ (Kirisutokyo gaku) Tetsutarō Arigas, der der erste Dekan der Theologischen Fakultät an Doshisha Universität gewesen war und nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg auf den Lehrstuhl für Christentumswissenschaft an der Kyoto Universität berufen wurde. Ariga stammte aus einer „monotheistischen“ Fami...

Two Ships Passing in the Night? A Historical Analysis of Nietzsche’s Inauspicious ‘Non-Engagement’ with the Writings of ...

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) were two seminal 19th century thinkers, each of whom presented dramatically different theological and philosophical conceptions of Christianity and truth. Prior historical investigations into the relationship between these two individuals have problematised what was once a truism in ...

Der heilige Geist. Eine Biographie

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

Gesammelte Schriften, Band I: Komparatistik im Spannungsfeld von Philologie und Philosophie

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

“Jerusalem and Athens” in America: On the Biographical Background of Leo Strauss’s Four Eponymous Lectures from 1946, 19...

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

Throughout his life, Leo Strauss (1899–1973) employed the expression “Jerusalem and Athens” to refer metaphorically to the two opposing poles of his thinking: biblical faith and ancient philosophy. While Strauss continuously stressed that “Jerusalem” and “Athens” pose a radical alternative, which demands a binary choice, he himself did not present ...

Leo Strauss’s “Jerusalem and Athens” (1950): Three Lectures Delivered at Hillel House, Chicago

Published in Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte

For the first time, this edition presents Leo Strauss’s Hillel House lecture series on “Jerusalem and Athens.” The three lectures, delivered in the fall of 1950, investigate the agreement, disagreement, and conflict between the biblical and the philosophic “ways of life”: “Philosophy in the full sense is [...] incompatible with the biblical way of ...