Reconceiving Theology after the Anthropological Turn

Logan Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Theology at Indiana Wesleyan University, USA.

In his masterful, sustained enquiry into the methods, steps and tenets of Schleiermacher’s doctrine of God, Logan Hoffman demonstrates how otherwise intractable controversies in the history of reception of The Christian Faith can be resolved. The first chapter on Kant’s critical philosophy outlines the intellectual context and the concise tools which the Glaubenslehre will apply to justify ‘religion’ through a transcendental analysis of subjectivity. Hoffman’s thoughtful, disciplined and resourceful interpretation of the reasons and results of devising Christian dogmatics in an ‘Introduction’ and two material parts offers most perceptive insights, unravels quandaries, highlights translation problems, and provides a model of clarity and depth also for teaching a theology that is up to Schleiermacher’s still inexhausted, groundbreaking work.

• 1. Contextualizing Schleiermacher’s Doctrine of God 2. Schleiermacher’s Method: Criticisms and Misunderstandings3. Schleiermacher’s Theological Method 4. The Doctrine of God in the First Part of the Material Dogmatics5. The Doctrine of God as Given in the Consciousness of Sin and Grace6. The Doctrine of the Trinity in the GlaubenslehreBibliographyIndexBibliographyIndex