Charles Phillips
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199756292
- eISBN:
- 9780199950379
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199756292.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Edwards Amasa Park championed Edwardsian Calvinism from the Jacksonian era until the very close of the nineteenth century. His own training at Andover in the irenic divinity of Moses Stuart and ...
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Edwards Amasa Park championed Edwardsian Calvinism from the Jacksonian era until the very close of the nineteenth century. His own training at Andover in the irenic divinity of Moses Stuart and Leonard Woods, his application as rhetorician of the work of Hugh Blair and George Campbell and his exposure in Germany to the Vermittlungstheologie of Friedrich Tholuck gave specific definition to his theological project. Park ought not to be viewed as a romantic idealist in the line of Horace Bushnell or as a proto-liberal in advance of the Andover liberals who succeeded him. Instead he commingled epistemology and methodology derived from Lockean empiricism, Baconian induction, natural theology, and Scottish commonsense realism. As a formidable apologist for his revivalist inheritance, Park conserved the substance and prolonged the influence New England Theology by securing for it modes of expression well fitted to his nineteenth-century audience.Less
Edwards Amasa Park championed Edwardsian Calvinism from the Jacksonian era until the very close of the nineteenth century. His own training at Andover in the irenic divinity of Moses Stuart and Leonard Woods, his application as rhetorician of the work of Hugh Blair and George Campbell and his exposure in Germany to the Vermittlungstheologie of Friedrich Tholuck gave specific definition to his theological project. Park ought not to be viewed as a romantic idealist in the line of Horace Bushnell or as a proto-liberal in advance of the Andover liberals who succeeded him. Instead he commingled epistemology and methodology derived from Lockean empiricism, Baconian induction, natural theology, and Scottish commonsense realism. As a formidable apologist for his revivalist inheritance, Park conserved the substance and prolonged the influence New England Theology by securing for it modes of expression well fitted to his nineteenth-century audience.
Zachary Purvis
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198783381
- eISBN:
- 9780191826306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198783381.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter considers mediating theology (Vermittlungstheologie), which dominated university theology in the mid-nineteenth century. It explores the work of K. R. Hagenbach (1801–74), whose ...
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This chapter considers mediating theology (Vermittlungstheologie), which dominated university theology in the mid-nineteenth century. It explores the work of K. R. Hagenbach (1801–74), whose textbooks were among the most widely read theological books across Europe and North America, constituting an invaluable resource in the history of modern theology. Hagenbach developed Schleiermacher’s ideas, it is argued, and, through his standard and extraordinarily influential introduction to the study of theology—which went through twelve editions between 1833 and 1889 and was translated into multiple languages—propagated a long-standing form of mild or moderate theological historicism across multiple generations. Mediating theology thus found its theoretical and pedagogical footings as a centrist school inclined to harmonize differences among Protestant groups and resolve tensions between liberalism and orthodoxy, speculation and history. Hagenbach’s international and transatlantic success quelled speculative theology’s advance and represented the epitome of the modern project of theology as science after Schleiermacher.Less
This chapter considers mediating theology (Vermittlungstheologie), which dominated university theology in the mid-nineteenth century. It explores the work of K. R. Hagenbach (1801–74), whose textbooks were among the most widely read theological books across Europe and North America, constituting an invaluable resource in the history of modern theology. Hagenbach developed Schleiermacher’s ideas, it is argued, and, through his standard and extraordinarily influential introduction to the study of theology—which went through twelve editions between 1833 and 1889 and was translated into multiple languages—propagated a long-standing form of mild or moderate theological historicism across multiple generations. Mediating theology thus found its theoretical and pedagogical footings as a centrist school inclined to harmonize differences among Protestant groups and resolve tensions between liberalism and orthodoxy, speculation and history. Hagenbach’s international and transatlantic success quelled speculative theology’s advance and represented the epitome of the modern project of theology as science after Schleiermacher.
