You might also like

More about Continuing the Reformation

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 132 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Modern Christian religious thought, B. A. Gerrish argues, has constantly revised the inherited faith. In these twelve essays, written or published in the 1980s, a historical theologian examines the changes that occurred as the Catholic tradition gave way to the Reformation and an interest in the phenomenon of believing replaced adherence to unchanging dogma. Gerrish devotes three essays to each of four topics: Martin Luther and the Reformation; religious belief and the Age of Reason; Friedrich Schleiermacher and the renewal of Protestant theology; and Schleiermacher's disciple Ernst Troeltsch, for whom the theological task was to give a rigorous account of the faith prevailing in a particular religious community at a particular time. Gerrish shows how faith itself has become a primary object of inquiry, not only in the newly emerging philosophy of religion but also in a new style of church theology which no longer assumes that faith rests on immutable dogmas. For Gerrish, the new theology of Protestant liberalism takes for its primary object of inquiry the changing forms of the religious life.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Continuing the Reformation
• Author: B.A. Gerrish
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780226288710
• ISBN: 0226288714
• ID: 02514444
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 158 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 1994

Trending among others

---

---

---