Reimarus: Fragments

Reimarus: Fragments
Author: Hermann Samuel Reimarus
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1606088912

Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768), a German deist and rationalist, inaugurated modern critical investigation into the life of Jesus. He asserted that much of the New Testament record was a pious fabrication and that Jesus was primarily a political revolutionary. Albert Schweitzer has said of Reimarus: His work is perhaps the most splendid achievement in the whole course of the historical investigation of the life of Jesus, for he was the first to grasp the fact that the world of thought in which Jesus moved was essentially eschatological. This edition contains Reimarus' writings, On the Resurrection and On the Intention of Jesus and His Disciples, as well as a portion of D. F. Strauss's evaluation of Reimarus. Dr. Talbert, Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University, offers a critical introduction to the book. This new translation of the two writings was done by Ralph S. Fraser, Professor of German at Wake Forest.

Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity

Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity
Author: Jonathan M. Hess
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300097016

In the analysis of the debates in Germany over Jews, Judaism and Jewish emancipation in the late 18th and 19th centuries, Jonathan M. Hess reconstructs a crucial chapter in the history of secular anti-Semitism. He examines not only the thinking of German intellectuals of the time but also that of Jewish writers, revealing the connections between anti-Semitism and visions of modernity, and the Jewish responses to the treat posed by these connections.

Jesus Remembered

Jesus Remembered
Author: James D. G. Dunn
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 2003-07-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802839312

In Christianity in the making, James D.G. Dunn examines in depth the major factors that shaped first-generation Christianity and beyond, exploring the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism, the Hellenization of Christianity, and responses to Gnosticism. He mines all the first- and second-century sources, including the New Testament Gospels, New Testament apocrypha, and such church fathers as Ignatius, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus, showing how the Jesus tradition and the figures of James, Paul, Peter, and John were still esteemed influences but were also the subject of intense controversy as the early church wrestled with its evolving identity.

Moderate and Radical Liberalism

Moderate and Radical Liberalism
Author: Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 982
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 900450804X

A new reading of a crucial chapter in the history of social and political thought – the transition from the late Enlightenment to early liberalism.

For Self-examination and Judge for Yourself!

For Self-examination and Judge for Yourself!
Author: Robert L. Perkins
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780865548244

The International Kierkegaard Commentary-For the first time in English the world community of scholars systematically assembled and presented the results of recent research in the vast literature of Søren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian. This is volume 21 in a series of commentaries based upon the definitive translations of Kierkegaard's writings published by Princeton University Press, 1980ff.

Rethinking Trinitarian Theology

Rethinking Trinitarian Theology
Author: Giulio Maspero
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567468313

The book aims at showing the most important topics and paradigms in modern Trinitarian theology. It is supposed to be a comprehensive guide to the many traces of development of Trinitarian faith. As such it is thought to systematize the variety of contemporary approaches to the field of Trinitarian theology in the present philosophical-cultural context. The main goal of the publication is not only a description of what happened to Trinitarian theology in the modern age. It is rather to indicate the typically modern specificity of the Trinitarian debate and - first of all - to encourage development in the main areas and issues of this subject.

An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0192842935

"It provides an account of the criticism of religion by key Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Lessing, Hume, and Kant. This is followed by an analysis of how the Romantic thinkers, such as Rousseau, Jacobi, and Schleiermacher, responded to these challenges. For Hegel, the views of these thinkers from both the Enlightenment and Romanticism tended to empty religion of its content. The goal that he sets for his own philosophy of religion is to restore this lost content. " -- back cover.

Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment

Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment
Author: Toshimasa Yasukata
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0195144945

On the basis of intensive study of the entire corpus of Lessing's philosophical and theological writings as well as the extensive secondary literature, the author leads the reader into the systematic core of Lessing's highly elusive religious thought.

Beginning the Good News

Beginning the Good News
Author: Francis J. Moloney SDB
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725217708

Beginning the Good News Francis Moloney provides a narrative critical reading of Mark 1:1-13, Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2, and John 1:1-18 to illustrate that the readings of the Gospels set up a tension in the reader who learns from the beginning, but still cannot rest satisfied. The Gospels' beginnings promise the reader the great prize of understanding--later.