Theology

Reformation und Säkularisierung

Zur Kontroverse um die Genese der Moderne aus dem Geist der Reformation
Hrsg. v. Ingolf U. Dalferth

[Reformation and Secularization. On the Controversy About Modernity's Genesis from the Spirit of the Reformation.]

2017. VIII, 259 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-154890-1
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Published in German.
Have Reformation movements destroyed the traditional unity of the church and the state, of society and culture, and in so doing instigated the marginalisation of Christianity in Europe? The present volume attempts to shed light on this and other controversial questions.
The Reformation was essentially a religious renewal of Christianity in Europe. As such, it has contributed decisively, along with the Renaissance and humanism, to the formation of a secular modernity. What exactly was this contribution and how is it to be assessed? Have Reformation movements destroyed the traditional unity of the church and the state, of society and culture, and in so doing instigated the marginalisation of Christianity in Europe? Or have they brought central impulses of Christianity to the fore, without which Western modernity could not developed, and which also characterise a society that understands itself as secular in a plural late modern era? The present volume attempts to shed light on these controversial questions. Criticisms levelled at reformed traditions by the secular modernism standpoint as well as those aimed at European modernity and late-modernity from the camp of reformed thinking are also given a voice.
Survey of contents
Ingolf U. Dalferth: Säkularisierung, Säkularität, Säkularismus. Orientierung in einem unübersichtlichen Feld am Leitfaden der Frage nach dem Geist der Reformation – Brad S. Gregory: Disembedding Christianity. The Reformation Era and the Secularization of Western Society – Dorothea Wendebourg: Freiheit des Glaubens – Freiheit der Welt – Albrecht Beutel: Konsequente Historisierung. Die Revision und Transformation reformatorischer Basisimpulse im Zeitalter der Aufklärung – Volker Gerhardt: Aufklärung über den Glauben – Detlef Pollack: Religion und Individualisierung. Kulturelle Wirkungen des Protestantismus – Eilert Herms: Die Moderne im Lichte des reformatorischen Erbes – Risto Saarinen: Rechtfertigung und Anerkennung. Theologische Denkfiguren in der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion
Authors/Editors

Ingolf U. Dalferth Born 1948; 1977 Promotion; 1982 Habilitation; Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Symbolism and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich; Danforth Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in California.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Berliner Zeitung — 24. August 2017, S. 22 (Dirk Pilz)
In: Theologische Revue — 115 (2019), S. 201 (Markus Wriedt)
In: Archiv f. ReformationsG -Literaturbericht- — 46/47 (2017/18), S. 15 (Wriedt)