The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought
Edited by Joel D.S. Rasmussen, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber
Abstract
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought offers a comprehensive assessment of the various ways in which Christian thought has found expression -during the long nineteenth century; how it has been influenced by contemporaneous scientific, social, political, and cultural developments; and how it has in its turn impacted all areas of Western life and thought during this period. Its contributors accept that, contrary to earlier views, the nineteenth century was less a period of secularization than one of dynamic, innovative, and diverse transformations of Christian thought, even if these were often expressed in new, non-traditional, and often controversial forms. Consequently, the volume starts with a section on 'paradigm shifts' underlying intellectual engagements with Christianity during the period, and proceeds to explorations of the role Christian thought played in various aspects of nineteenth-century society and culture. Further sections of the Handbook provide overviews of confessional developments and more strictly theological ideas throughout the long nineteenth century. In this way, the Handbook provides a comprehensive and definitive overview of a field of study central to the work of theologians, scholars of religion and literature, historians, historians of art, philosophers, and anthropologists.
Keywords:
Christianity,
nineteenth century,
historicism,
secularisation,
revival,
art,
literature,
philosophy,
science,
anthropology
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Dec 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198718406
- Published online:
- Aug 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718406.001.0001
Editors
Joel D.S. Rasmussen,
editor
Joel D. S. Rasmussen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall, Oxford, and an associate member of Oxford’s Philosophy Faculty. He is the author of Between Irony and Witness: Kierkegaard’s Poetics of Faith, Hope, and Love (2005), and co-editor of William James and the Transatlantic Conversation (2014) and of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebook (2007–). He is currently writing a volume entitled Christianity and the Cultures of Modernity: From Westphalia to the Great War.
Judith Wolfe,
editor
Judith Wolfe is Tutor in Theology at St John’s College in the University of Oxford. She is the author of Heidegger’s Secular Eschatology (2012), Heidegger and Theology (2013), and a number of articles on Christian eschatology in relation to both philosophy and literature.
Johannes Zachhuber,
editor
Johannes Zachhuber is Reader of Theology in the University of Oxford. He works on Christian theology in late antiquity and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Publications include Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa (2000) and A Science of Theology? The German Debate from FC Baur to Ernst Troeltsch (2012).
