Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit

Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the highly-acclaimed trilogy The Making of Liberal Theology (2001, 2003, 2006), and Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 2010).

“Nonetheless, the thoroughness of this volume and the cogency of its arguments make it an absolute must for theology students.”  (Religious Studies Review, 27 February 2014) “Dorrien's book-which I cannot avoid calling brilliant-will hold the same enduring place in giving an historical justification for his "modern theology" that Barth's Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century holds in setting the table for Barth's dogmatics. Time will tell whether the future belongs to Dorrien's theology, Barth's (in historical or repristinated form), or some other.”  (Themelios, 1 August 2013)“Graduate students and philosophy of religion students will find this book indispensable.  Summing Up:  Essential.  All libraries supporting graduate programs in theology and religion.”  (Choice, 1 February 2013)

• Preface and Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Kantian Concepts, Liberal Theology, and Post-Kantian Idealism 12 Subjectivity in Question: Immanuel Kant, Johann G. Fichte, and Critical Idealism 233 Making Sense of Religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Locke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Liberal Theology 844 Dialectics of Spirit: F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, and Absolute Idealism 1595 Hegelian Spirit in Question: David Friedrich Strauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and Mediating Theology 2436 Neo-Kantian Historicism: Albrecht Ritschl, Adolf von Harnack, Wilhelm Herrmann, Ernst Troeltsch, and the Ritschlian School 3157 Idealistic Ordering: Lux Mundi, Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, Hastings Rashdall, Alfred E. Garvie, Alfred North Whitehead, William Temple, and British Idealism 3788 The Barthian Revolt: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, and the Legacy of Liberal Theology 4549 Idealistic Ironies: From Kant and Hegel to Tillich and Barth 530Index 574