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F.C. Baur’s Synthesis of Böhme and Hegel: Redefining Christian Theology as a Gnostic Philosophy of Religion

By Corneliu C. Simut

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004275207, 9789004275201
ISSN
2210-481X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1986793 bytes)
Series
Philosophy of Religion - World Religions 4
Pages
x+362\373
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-07-30 21:18:05
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Description

In this book, Professor Simuț shows how Christian theology started to be understood as a Gnostic philosophy of religion in the thought of the 19th-century scholar F. C. Baur. Although Baur was seen traditionally as a theologian and biblical exegete, Simuț argues that he was in fact a philosopher of religion, and it was his philosophical reading of Christian theology that informed his biblical preoccupations. Specifically, Baur’s perspective on Christian theology was heavily influenced by Jakob Böhme’s esoteric theosophy and Hegel’s religious philosophy in some key issues such as creation, Lucifer, dualism and the connection between spirit and matter coupled with that between philosophy and religion.

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