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Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University

By Thomas Albert Howard

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2006
ISBN
9780199266852, 0199266859
LCC
LA727 .H69 2006
Open Library ID
OL3414007M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3302261 bytes)
Pages
483\483
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

In shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology, few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the nineteenth century. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing especially on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia's flagship university in the nineteenth century. In contradistinction to historians of modern higher education who often overlook theology, and to theologians who are frequently inattentive to the social and institutional contexts of religious thought, Thomas Albert Howard argues that modern university development and the trajectory of modern Protestant theology in Germany should be understood as interrelated phenomena.

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