Faithfully Seeking Understanding : Selected Writings of Johannes Kuhn

Faithfully Seeking Understanding provides a first-hand opportunity for English-speaking readers to encounter the thought of Johannes Kuhn (1806-1887), widely considered the greatest speculative theologian of the renowned Catholic Tübingen School. This volume presents selected essays spanning Kuhn's lengthy career. They are organized topically and edited by Grant Kaplan to give readers an approachable introduction to his thought. Despite having a significant influence on German theology and being the subject of much study in Germany, Kuhn's thought has attracted only marginal attention outside of Germany. These essays, in addition to a scholarly introduction, give evidence of the depth of Kuhn's thought and show his ongoing relevance for key fault lines in contemporary systematic and fundamental theology. The selections are taken from chapters of Kuhn's books, including his Catholic Dogmatics , and from various articles that appeared in the Tübingen quarterly, Die theologische Quartalschrift. They are arranged according to the following topics: faith and reason; revelation and the personhood of God; responses to Protestant liberalism; theological topics, including grace and freedom, theology and the university; and Catholic fundamental theology. Though diverse in subject, when read together the essays yield a complete theological vision that derives from a carefully constructed theological foundation. ABOUT THE EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR: The editor and translator, Grant Kaplan, is assistant professor of theology at St. Louis University. Johannes Kuhn is the subject of Kaplan's earlier monograph, Answering the Enlightenment. Introduction To Selected Writings / Grant Kaplan -- The False Choice Between Faith And Rational Understanding -- The Precedence Of Faith Over Reason -- The Finality Of Christian Revelation -- Revelation And Its Salvific Import -- Revelation As History -- Grace And The Problem Of Freedom -- Neo-scholasticism And The Misunderstanding Of Grace -- Sources Of Revealed Truth: Scripture And Tradition -- Authority And Interpretation -- Is History Mythic? A Biblical Response To D. F. Strauss (co-translated With Jonathan King) -- Religion As Feeling Or Illusion? A Contrary Position -- The Newness Of Tradition -- The Personhood Of God -- The Place Of Theology In A University: A Response. Edited And Translated By Grant Kaplan. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction to Selected Writings The False Choice Between Faith and Rational Understanding The Precedence of Faith over Reason The Finality of Christian Revelation Revelation and Its Salvific Import Revelation as History Grace and the Problem of Freedom Neo-Scholasticism and the Misunderstanding of Grace Sources of Revealed Truth Authority and Interpretation Is History Mythic? : A Biblical Response to D. F. Strauss Religion as Feeling or Illusion? : A Contrary Position The Newness of Tradition The Personhood of God The Place of Theology in a University Selected Bibliography General Index Index of Biblical Citations Offers an opportunity for English-speaking readers to encounter the thought of Johannes Kuhn (1806-1887), widely considered the greatest speculative theologian of the renowned Catholic Tubingen School. This book presents selected essays spanning Kuhn's lengthy career.