Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University :

In shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology, few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the nineteenth century. This award-winning book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing especially on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia's flagship university in the nineteenth century. In contradistinction to historians of modern higher education who often overlook theology, and to theologians who are frequently inattentive to the social and institutional contexts of religious thought, Thomas Albert Howard argues that modern university development and the trajectory of modern Protestant theology in Germany should be understood as interrelated phenomena. Theology, modernity, and the German University On the state and modern science 'in the German sense' Plan of study Broader considerations, or 'the pathos of modern theology' Sacra Facultas and the coming of German modernity The medieval legacy Humanism, the Reformation, and the universities The eighteenth century : decline and critique The way forward : Halle and Gиottingen 'Torchbearer or trainbearer'? : the faculties and Immanuel Kant Theology, Wissenschaft, and the founding of the University of Berlin Revolutionary times and the ascendancy of Wissenschaft 'A new creation' Theology and the idea of the New University Early operations : Berlin's theological faculty, 1810-1819 'Renewing Protestantism' : Schleiermacher and the challenge of modern theological education An Erastian modernity? : church, state, and education in early nineteenth-century, Prussia Church and state before 1806 The great transition : church and state after 1806 'A realm of the intelligence' : Minister Altenstein and his legacy Theologia between science and the state General trends and developments, 1810-1918 The rise and fall of 'theological encyclopedia' History, commemoration, and the university 'The age of German footnotes' : visitors from abroad, admirers from afar 'The crisis of the theological faculty' : Lagarde, Overbeck, and Harnack Conclusion : Janus gazing. Theology, modernity, and the German University On the state and modern science in the German sense Plan of study Broader considerations, or the pathos of modern theology Sacra Facultas and the coming of German modernity The Medieval legacy Humanism, the Reformation, and the universities The eighteenth century : decline and critique The way forward : Halle and Göttingen Torchbearer or trainbearer? : the faculties and Immanuel Kant Theology, Wissenschaft, and the founding of the University of Berlin Revolutionary times and the ascendancy of Wissenschaft A new creation Theology and the idea of the New University Early operations : Berlin's theological faculty, 1810-1819 Renewing Protestantism : Schleiermacher and the challenge of modern theological education An Erastian modernity, church, state, and education in early nineteenth-century, Prussia Church and state before 1806 The great transition : church and state after 1806 A realm of the intelligence : Minister Altenstein and his Legacy Theologia between science and the state General trends and developments, 1810-1918 The rise and fall of theological encyclopedia History, commemoration, and the university The age of German footnotes : visitors from abroad, admirers from afar The crisis of the theological faculty : Lagarde, Overbeck, and Harnack Conclusion : Janus gazing. ## Abstract Few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the 19th century in shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia’s flagship university in the 19th century. In contradistinction to historians of modern higher education who often overlook theology, and to theologians who are frequently inattentive to the social and institutional contexts of religious thought, it is argued that modern university development and the trajectory of modern Protestant theology in Germany should be understood as interrelated phenomena. "Thomas Albert Howard seeks to reframe debate about modern theology and nineteenth-century university development. Historians of modern German higher education rarely consider the fate of theological study, focusing more often on the rise of humanistic and natural scientific fields. Theologians and scholars of religion, by contrast, have long been attentive to the significance of nineteenth-century German Protestant theology. But if theology is regularly slighted by historians, theologians often neglect to provide sufficiently contextualized accounts of the social, intellectual, and institutional conditions in which modern academic theology in Germany took shape We are often left, therefore, not only with modern histories of the university short on theology, but stories of modern theology short on university history. The view that the two profoundly hang together is the guiding insight of this study."--Jacket Thomas Howard examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing especially on the University of Berlin (1810), Prussia's flagship university in the 19th century