Wilhelm Herrmann and the Birth of the Ritschlian School
-
Christophe Chalamet
Abstract
The emergence of a school around the theology of Albrecht Ritschl remains an important aspect of modern Protestant theology. On the basis of previously unpublished correspondence between Ritschl and some of his most celebrated students, we are able to investigate anew the circumstances under which the Ritschlian school was formed, and to ask why Ritschl's theology attracted a new generation of theologians and historians of theology. By focusing on Wilhelm Herrmann, one of the most significant systematic theologians of the Ritschlian school, this article shows how Ritschl's attempt to overcome apologetics and classical metaphysics as well as his way of correlating religion and morality opened a distinctive and appealing alternative to the various theological schools of his time.
© Walter de Gruyter 2008
Articles in the same Issue
- Individualität und Identität Schleiermacher über metaphysische, religiöse und sozialtheoretische Dimensionen eines Schlüsselthemas der Moderne
- Pusey, Newman, and the end of a ‘healthful Reunion’: The Second and Third Volumes of Pusey's Eirenicon
- ‘Should One Suffer Death for the Truth?: Kierkegaard, Erbauungsliteratur, and the Imitation of Christ’
- “Mine”. The Rhetorics of Abraham Kuyper
- Wilhelm Herrmann and the Birth of the Ritschlian School
- Reviews / Rezensionen
- Contributors to this Volume / Mitarbeiter dieses Jahrgangs
- Contents/Inhaltsverzeichnis
Articles in the same Issue
- Individualität und Identität Schleiermacher über metaphysische, religiöse und sozialtheoretische Dimensionen eines Schlüsselthemas der Moderne
- Pusey, Newman, and the end of a ‘healthful Reunion’: The Second and Third Volumes of Pusey's Eirenicon
- ‘Should One Suffer Death for the Truth?: Kierkegaard, Erbauungsliteratur, and the Imitation of Christ’
- “Mine”. The Rhetorics of Abraham Kuyper
- Wilhelm Herrmann and the Birth of the Ritschlian School
- Reviews / Rezensionen
- Contributors to this Volume / Mitarbeiter dieses Jahrgangs
- Contents/Inhaltsverzeichnis
