The Doctrine of God and the Crisis of Modernity

In this incisive work, Michelson traces contemporary debates on the doctrine of God back in time to the philosophical critiques of Hume and Kant . Charnock, Schleiermacher and Barth each offered accounts of the doctrine of God. This book offers a critical evaluation of these accounts and demonstrates how they were responding to early modern critiques of the possibility of knowing God.Not content to stop there, Michelson also highlights how these critics built their arguments on faulty interpretations of classical theological tradition. In doing so, this book carves out a provocative, construct path forward for contemporary theological reflection on the doctrine of God.>

Auteur
Jared Michelson is a research fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK, and a Christian minister.

Contenu

Chapter 1
Introduction

Chapter 2
An Ocean of All Perfection: Stephen Charnock's Reformed Thomist Doctrine of God

Chapter 3
The Roots of an Early Modern Dogmatic Crisis

Chapter 4
The Old Sorcerer: Schleiermacher and a Liberal Response to the Dogmatic Crisis

Chapter 5
A Hegelian Interlude: A Hegelian Response to the Modern Dogmatic Crisis?

Chapter 6
Entschiedung: Barth and an Actualist Response to the Modern Dogmatic Crisis

Chapter 7
Assessing the Genealogy and Confronting the Crisis

Chapter 8
Theology after the Crisis and after Barth

Chapter 9
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index