Table of Contents

Part 1: Background
1: Robert Kolb: The Reformation and the Emergence of Protestant Orthodoxy
2: Thomas Wallnig: Early Modern Catholic Theology in German-speaking Lands
3: Douglas Shantz: German Pietism
4: Eric Carlsson: The Protestant Enlightenment
5: John R. Betz: The Counter-Enlightenment and Erweckungsbewegung: From J. G. Hamann to the Münster Circle
6: Michael C. Legaspi: Beginnings of Historical Criticism
7: Paul Franks: Translation, Bildung, and Dialogue: Central Concepts of German-Jewish Religious Thought 1783-1848
Part 2: 1781-1806
8: Andreas Holzem: Historical Introduction: Political, Social, and Legal Changes (1781-1806)
9: Ian Hunter: The Early Theological Reception of Kant's Religious Philosophy
10: Myriam Bienenstock: The Pantheism Controversy in the 1780s
11: Daniel Whistler: Early German Romanticism and the Characteristics of Religion
12: Werner Busch (translated by Grant Kaplan and Kevin M. Vander Schel): Romantic Art and Theology
13: Rainald Becker: The Changing Place of Religious Orders, and its Role in Theological Development
Part 3: 1806-1815
14: Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft: Historical Introduction: Theological Justifications of Nationalism and the Beginnings of 'German Christianity' (1806-15)
15: Benjamin Dahlke: Debates about the Academic Status of Theology and the Foundation of the University of Berlin
16: Liisa Steinby: Approaches to Myth and Mythology
17: Johannes Zachhuber: Theology and Early Historicism
Part 4: 1815-1830
18: Richard Schaefer: Historical Introduction: Political Restoration and Its Effects on Theology 1815-30
19: Todd H. Weir: Confession, Secularism, and Dissent in the German Vormärz
20: Grant Kaplan: The Catholic Tübingen School in its First Generation
21: Paul Michael Kurtz: Rationalism and Biblical Interpretation: H.E.G. Paulus, K.G. Bretschneider, and W.M.L. de Wette
22: Andrew Dole: Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre and its Immediate Reception
23: Kevin M. Vander Schel: Anti-Rationalist Developments: Supernaturalism and the German Religious Awakening
24: Justin Shaun Coyle: Catholic Rationalism: Georg Hermes and Anton Günther
Part 5: 1830-1848
25: Jeffrey T. Zalar: Historical Introduction: The German-Speaking Lands in Restoration and Vormärz, 1815-48
26: Christian Danz: Hegel's Philosophy of Religion, Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation, and their Immediate Theological Reception
27: David Lincicum: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen School
28: Annette G. Aubert: Mediating Theology
29: Klaus Unterburger: Church History and History of Doctrine 1830-1848
30: Michael Ledger-Lomas: Strauss and the Life of Jesus Controversy

About the Author

Grant Kaplan works in the areas of systematic, fundamental, and historical theology. He is the author of Answering the Enlightenment: The Catholic Recovery of Historical Revelation (2006), René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology (2016), and Faith and Reason through Christian History: A Theological Essay (2022). He received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2002 and has worked at Saint Louis
University since 2007. Kevin Vander Schel's research centers on modern Christian thought, political theology, and theological hermeneutics. He is the author of Embedded Grace: Christ, History, and the Reign of God in Schleiermacher's Dogmatics
(2013), and co-editor of The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good (2017) and Theology, History, and the Modern German University (2021). He received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2012, and is currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University.