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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Albert Howard Howard is Professor of Humanities and History and holds the Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, where he is affiliated with Christ College, Valparaiso's humanities-based honors college. He also serves as Senior Fellow for the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts. His publications include The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Dollinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age and The Faiths of Others: Modern History and the Rise of Interreligious Dialogue. Klappentext This book offers an interpretation of the rise of secular historical thought in nineteenth-century Europe. Instead of characterizing 'historicism' and 'secularization' as fundamental breaks with Europe's religious heritage, they are presented as complex cultural permutations with much continuity; for inherited theological patterns of interpreting experience determined to a large degree the conditions, possibilities and limitations of the forms of historical imagination realizable by nineteenth-century secular intellectuals. This point is made by examining the thought of the German theologian W. M. L. de Wette and that of the Swiss-German historian Jacob Burckhardt. Burckhardt's meeting with de Wette and his subsequent decision to study history over theology are interpreted as revealing moments in nineteenth-century intellectual history. By examining their encounter, its larger historical context, and the thought of both men, the book demonstrates the centrality of theological concerns and forms of knowledge in the emergence of modern, secular historical consciousness. Zusammenfassung Concentrating upon the meeting of German theologian W. M. L. de Wette and Swiss-German historian Jacob Burckhardt! this book demonstrates the centrality of theological concerns and forms of knowledge in the emergence of modern! secular historical consciousness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction: History, Theology, and Modernity; 1. Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette: enlightenment, romanticism and biblical criticism; 2. De Wette and Schleiermacher at Berlin (1810-1819): politics, history, and the post-enlightenment transformation of theology; 3. De Wette, D. F. Strauss, and the New Christusbild; 4. Basel, Burckhardt, and de Wette; 5. History without centaurs; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index....
