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Reconceiving Theology after the Anthropological Turn

The Doctrine of God in Friedrich Schleiermacher’s The Christian Faith

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Reconceiving Theology after the Anthropological Turn

The Doctrine of God in Friedrich Schleiermacher’s The Christian Faith

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Logan R. Hoffman deftly crafts a reconstruction and evaluation of the Doctrine of God in Friedrich Schleiermacher's primary theological work, Der christliche Glaube. This book identifies the new-found limitations to theological speech that were contemporary in Schleiermacher's day before offering a distinctive interpretation of Schleiermacher's solution for these limitations.

The work proceeds by following a method of close reading of primary texts, interpreting those texts in conversation with major secondary literature. Hoffman reconstructs what Schleiermacher had to say about the divine being, a subject seldom treated in book-length detail. By looking closely at the theological method employed (and offering a distinctive interpretation of Schleiermacher's method among Anglophone scholars), and then tracing that method through the major sections of The Christian Faith, the book brings clarity to what exactly Schleiermacher could justifiably say about God as given in the Feeling of Absolute Dependence.

Table of Contents

1. The Intellectual Context of Friedrich Schleiermacher's Doctrine of God

2. Critiques of §§ 3 and 4 from Two Opposite Perspectives: A Naturalist Approach to the Theory of Religion (Andrew Dole) and a Divine Revelation/Word of God

3. Schleiermacher's Theological Method as Described in the Introduction to the Glaubenslehre and its Relevance for the Doctrine of God

4. The Doctrine of God as Analysed in the Abstracted Relationship Between God

5. The Doctrine of God as Given in the Consciousness of Sin and Grace in the

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Product details

Published 20 Aug 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 160
ISBN 9780567728371
Imprint T&T Clark
Series T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Logan Hoffman

Logan Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Humanities…

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