Theology

Albrecht Beutel

Der »fromme Laie« Justus Möser

Funktionale Religionstheorie im Zeitalter der Aufklärung

[The »Pious Layman« Justus Möser. Functional Theory of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment.]

2020. VIII, 228 pages.
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The Osnabrück statesman Justus Möser (1720–1794) participated in the discourse on religion during the Enlightenment with original contributions. Overall emerged an impressively coherent functional theory of religion, whose solid pragmatic approach was aimed to show the sociopolitical indispensability of Christianity. As part of the theory of religion that developed during the Enlightenment, Möser's blueprint is of outstanding importance.
The Osnabrück statesman Justus Möser (1720–1794) participated in the discourse on religion during the Enlightenment with original contributions. Overall emerged an impressively coherent functional theory of religion, whose solid pragmatic approach was aimed to show the sociopolitical indispensability of Christianity. As part of the theory of religion that developed during the Enlightenment, Möser's blueprint is of outstanding importance.
Authors/Editors

Albrecht Beutel Geboren 1957; Studium der Ev. Theologie, Germanistik und Philosophie in Tübingen und Zürich; 1990 Promotion; 1995 Habilitation; Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Kirchengeschichte (insbesondere Reformation, neuere und neueste Kirchengeschichte) an der Universität Münster; ord. Mitglied der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: H-Soz-Kult — https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-116445 (Holger Böning)
In: Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte — 23 (2021), S. 173–174 (Holger Böning)
In: Arbitrium — 39 (2021), S. 188–191 (Kai Gräf)
In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 145 (2020), S. 1232–1234 (Frank Stückemann)
In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift — 71 (2021), S. 111–113 (Till Kinzel)