Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
Excellent 4.8 out of 5

Trustpilot

You now have 0 of this item in your basket

Religion And The Rise Of Historicism

W. M. L. De Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of Nineteenth-century Historical Consciousness [Paperback]

by Massachusetts) Thomas Albert Howard (gordon College

Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
April 2006
Weight
395g

Read full description

Click to expand

Today's Price

£34.12

Save 15%

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Enter the product quantity

Religion And The Rise Of Historicism

Today's Price £34.12

Frequently Bought Together

Religion And The Rise Of Historicism

by Massachusetts) Thomas Albert Howard (gordon College

Paperback

Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University

by Thomas Albert Howard

Hardback

Add both to basket for £170.14 and save £57.35

Product Description

This book offers an interpretation of the rise of secular historical thought in nineteenth-century Europe. Instead of characterizing 'historicism' and 'secularization' as fundamental breaks with Europe's religious heritage, they are presented as complex cultural permutations with much continuity; for inherited theological patterns of interpreting experience determined to a large degree the conditions, possibilities and limitations of the forms of historical imagination realizable by nineteenth-century secular intellectuals. This point is made by examining the thought of the German theologian W. M. L. de Wette and that of the Swiss-German historian Jacob Burckhardt. Burckhardt's meeting with de Wette and his subsequent decision to study history over theology are interpreted as revealing moments in nineteenth-century intellectual history. By examining their encounter, its larger historical context, and the thought of both men, the book demonstrates the centrality of theological concerns and forms of knowledge in the emergence of modern, secular historical consciousness.