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- Title
A Transitional Institution: Schleiermacher on the Possibility and Limits of the Modern Christian State.
- Authors
Vander Schel, Kevin M.
- Abstract
The early nineteenth century was a time between empires in German-speaking lands, following the collapse of the holy Roman empire in 1806. This was also the time at which modern concepts of nations, nationalism, and the state entered theological discourse, bound together with emerging notions of world historical progress. From this time until the First World War, the task of conceptualizing national identity and the nature of the 'Christian state' became a pressing theological problem. This essay seeks to locate Schleiermacher's reflections on the Christian state within this developing problematic. Schleiermacher's philosophical and theological works closely engaged emerging ideas of the nation, state, and historical progress. However, he departed from the more totalizing affirmations of national spirit and the Christian state of many of his contemporaries, arguing for a more limited conception of the state as a point of transition in the ongoing historical development of the reign of God.
- Subjects
HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831; HOLY Roman Empire; WORLD War I; DEVELOPING countries; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 2023, Vol 65, Issue 3, p354
- ISSN
0028-3517
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/nzsth-2023-0026