Theologians, War, and the Universities: Early English interpretations of the “Manifesto of the Ninety-Three”, 1914–15
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Daniel D. Inman
Abstract
From von Harnack’s speech-writing for Kaiser Wilhelm II to the ‘Manifesto of the Ninety-Three’, theologians played an important role in justifying the defence of Kultur in the early stages of the First World War. This paper uses the war-pamphlet collection of William Sanday in the library of The Queen’s College to explore how English - and particularly Oxford - theologians responded to, and publically justified, British involvement in the war. Asserting that Oxford theologians were hesitantly nationalist by comparison with their German colleagues, this paper suggests that this dissimilarity cannot be explained purely by reference to the intellectual - some said, Nietzschean - arrogance of German theological liberals. Rather, the more cautious relationship of theologians in Britain to political and wider ecclesiastical discourse can, to some degree, be viewed through the lens of significant institutional differences between German and British theological faculties at the outbreak of the war.
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Essays/Aufsätze
- Missionaries, Modernism, and German Theology: Anglican Reactions to the Outbreak of War in 1914
- Theologians, War, and the Universities: Early English interpretations of the “Manifesto of the Ninety-Three”, 1914–15
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- Margot Hahl berichtet Hannah Tillich über ihre Freundschaft mit Paulus. Ein Brief aus dem Dezember 1966
- Reviews/Rezensionen
- Kant and the Meaning of Religion
- Schleiermacher. Christmas Dialogue, the Second Speech, and Other Selections
- Schleiermacher’s Influences on American Thought and Religious Life, 1835 – 1920
- Late German Idealism. Trendelenburg & Lotze
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