Pannenberg, the Positioning of Academic Theology and Philosophy of Science (Contributions to Philosophical Theology, 15)

✍ Scribed by Gülden Le Maire

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: New
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a bright and learned contribution on the famous German Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. Centering on his work Wissenschaftstheorie und Theologie (1973) it deals with his passion for an academically sound and respected theology, its radiation in an interdisciplinary university context in general and in the science-and-theology-dialogue in particular. Dr. Gülden Le Maire illuminates the role and function of theology in the German and Anglo-American educational-political landscape in the last decades of the 20st century. But she also offers a vision for the future of a healthy and fruitful academic theology in the German Academy and beyond.

Michael Welker, Senior professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Heidelberg

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Series Information
Copyright Information
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
Remarks
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 A rational mind in turbulent times: first impressions
1.2 Approaching Pannenberg: theology on the basis of philosophy
1.3 Arguments and terms
1.4 Concluding remarks
Chapter 2 A personal sketch of Wolfhart Pannenberg
2.1 The historical backdrop
2.2 Pannenberg’s main theological and philosophical influences
2.3 Deutsche Gründlichkeit:227 Pannenberg’s academic style
2.4 Concluding remarks
Chapter 3 The making of the book
3.1 The initial, life-long academic and spiritual goal: Revelation as History
3.2 The German theological philosophy of science debate in the 1960s and 1970s
3.3 The curious absence of I. Barbour and T. F. Torrance
3.4 Concluding remarks
Chapter 4 Theology as a university subject
4.1 The educational-historical and denominational backdrop
4.2 The educational-political landscape in the 1960s and 1970s
4.3 German academic particularities
4.4 Concluding remarks
Chapter 5 Theology as the science of God
5.1 Pannenberg’s theological and philosophical context
5.2 Pannenberg’s theorem
5.3 The internal classification of theological subjects
5.4 Concluding remarks
Chapter 6 Pannenberg’s theological heirs
6.1 The contemporary theological debate on method
6.2 The contemporary academic backdrop
6.3 A parity relationship: the German constitutional law on state-church relations
6.4 Concluding remarks
Chapter 7 The future of theology in the German Academy
7.1 The public nature of the discipline
7.2 Epistemology as the basis of scientificity
7.3 The self-conception of practitioners
7.4 Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Series Index