Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction: Kantian Concepts, Liberal Theology, and Post-Kantian Idealism 1

2 Subjectivity in Question: Immanuel Kant, Johann G. Fichte, and Critical Idealism 23

3 Making Sense of Religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Locke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Liberal Theology 84

4 Dialectics of Spirit: F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, and Absolute Idealism 159

5 Hegelian Spirit in Question: David Friedrich Strauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and Mediating Theology 243

6 Neo-Kantian Historicism: Albrecht Ritschl, Adolf von Harnack, Wilhelm Herrmann, Ernst Troeltsch, and the Ritschlian School 315

7 Idealistic Ordering: Lux Mundi, Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, Hastings Rashdall, Alfred E. Garvie, Alfred North Whitehead, William Temple, and British Idealism 378

8 The Barthian Revolt: Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, and the Legacy of Liberal Theology 454

9 Idealistic Ironies: From Kant and Hegel to Tillich and Barth 530

Index 574

About the Author

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

Reviews

Nonetheless, the thoroughness of this volume and thecogency of its arguments make it an absolute must for theologystudents. (Religious Studies Review, 27February 2014) Dorrien's book-which I cannot avoid callingbrilliant-will hold the same enduring place in giving an historicaljustification for his "modern theology" that Barth's ProtestantTheology in the Nineteenth Century holds in setting the tablefor Barth's dogmatics. Time will tell whether the future belongs toDorrien's theology, Barth's (in historical or repristinated form),or some other. (Themelios, 1 August 2013) Graduate students and philosophy of religion studentswill find this book indispensable. Summing Up: Essential. All libraries supporting graduate programs intheology and religion. (Choice, 1 February2013)