Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
Thomas Albert Howard
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
1. Theology, Modernity, and the German University
2. On the State and Modern Science `in the German sense'
3. Plan of Study
4. Broader Considerations, or `the Pathos of Modern Theology'
II. Sacra Facultas and the Coming of German Modernity
Introduction
5. The Medieval Legacy
6. Humanism, the Reformation, and the Universities
7. The Eighteenth Century: Decline and Critique
8. The Way Forward: Halle and Gottingen
9. `Torchbearer or Trainbearer?' The Faculties and Immanuel Kant
III. Wissenschaft, and the Founding of the University of Berlin
Introduction
10. Revolutionary Times and the Ascendancy of Wissenschaft
11. `A New Creation'
12. Theology and the Idea of the University
13. Early Operations: Berlin's Theological Faculty, 1810-1819
14. `Renewing Protestantism': Schleiermacher and the Challenge of Modern Theological Education
IV. An Erastian Modernity? Church, State, and Education in Early Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Introduction
15. Church and State before 1806
16. 1806 and the Prussian Kultusministerium
17. `A Realm of the Intelligence': Minister Altenstein and his Legacy
V. Theologia between Science and the State
Introduction
18. Historical Trends and Developments, 1810-1918
19. The Rise and Fall of `Theological Encyclopedia'
20. History, Commemoration, and University
21. `The Age of German Footnotes': Visitors from Abroad, Admirers from Afar
22. `The Crisis of the Theological Faculty': Lagarde, Overbeck, and Harnack
Conclusion: Janus Gazing