Introduction
Chapter 1: Historical Prologue: What is Man that Thou art Mindful of Him?
Chapter 2: The Human Design in Natural Theology
Chapter 3: Friedrich Schleiermacher and a Theology of Intuition
Chapter 4: Darwin’s Decentering of Humanity
Chapter 5: The Anti-theologians
Chapter 6: The Hard-headed Science of Humanity: Phrenology and Religion
Chapter 7: Social Christianity and Social Humanity in an Inhumane World
Chapter 8: The Natural World and the Human: The Transcendentalists
Chapter 9: Perils of the Soul in Nineteenth-Century Thought: Metaphysics and Morals
Chapter 10: Original Sin, Degeneration, Theology, and Science
Chapter 11: William James Seeks to Save Religious Experience
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Dennis L. Durst is associate professor of theology at Kentucky Christian University.
This book shows clearly how important thinkers in the nineteenth
century wrestled with the problem of human uniqueness. With
thorough research and patient exploration of the era's bold new
ideas, Durst explores strengths and weaknesses of the many attempts
to replace traditional Christian understandings of the human
person. Careful attention to science, theology, philosophy, and
psychology aid Durst in articulating traditional Christian
positions while at the same time crediting insights from Friedrich
Schleiermacher, F. D. Maurice, William James, and other major
thinkers.
*Mark Noll, author of America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a
Bible Civilization, 1794-1911*
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