Schleiermacher and Whitehead

This collection of essays stages a dialogue between Friedrich Schleiermacher and Alfred North Whitehead on significant features of 'open' system. The volume offers new options for rehabilitating system for future theological and philosophical thinking by opening system to a flexible relation with changing reality. Key ingredients for system are discussed in three areas of contact between Schleiermacher and Whitehead. One such ingredient concerns historical precedents figuring crucially in Western systematic philosophy. Another feature is the systematic categorization of experience that relates epistemology, metaphysics, and the empirical sciences. System is also brought to bear on pressing contemporary issues, such as ethics and religious pluralism.

About the author

Christine Helmer, Professor Religious Studies and Adjunct Professor of German, Northwestern University, born 1965, Ph.D. from Yale University (1997), taught at the Claremont School of Theology and at Harvard Divinity School, member of the AAR (American Academy of Religion) and ESWTR (European Society of Women in Theological Research), recipient of fellowships from the DAAD and Humboldt-Stiftung.

Product details

• Assisted by: Christine Helmer (Editor), Marjorie Suchocki (Editor), John Quiring (Editor), Kathie Goetz (Editor), Christin Helmer (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.2004
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9783110179927
• ISBN: 978-3-11-017992-7
• Pages: 356
• Illustrations: 5 b/w tbl.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 1.8 x 23.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 640 g
• Series: Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann > Bd.125; Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann > 125; ISSN > 125
• Subjects: Religionsphilosophie, Christentum, Geschichte der Religion, Systemtheorie, Schleiermacher, Friedrich, Whitehead, Alfred N., Prozesstheologie, Zweite Hälfte 18. Jahrhundert (ca. 1750 bis ca. 1799), Erste Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (ca. 1800 bis ca. 1850)