Die Religionswissenschaft und das Christentum

Eine historische Untersuchung über das Verhältnis von Religionswissenschaft und Theologie
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09922-7
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Deutsch, Band 61, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series

What are religious studies? What is theology? And what is their relationship to each other? In the light of such theoretical and methodological questions this historical inquiry asks what characterizes the study of Christianity within comparative religion—as distinguished from that of Christian theology? In the three main sections of the book representative texts from the history of comparative religion—including Schleiermacher and some other theological forerunners in the 19th century—are analyzed from a methodological and a material point of view. On this basis an answer is sought to the following questions: What has been the place of the study of Christianity within this discipline? On which methodological principles has it been based? And what kind of picture of Christianity has it presented?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Sigurd Hjelde, Ph.D., Professor of History of Religions at the University of Oslo. Co-editor of a Norwegian Luther translation (Oslo 1979-1983) and author of a comprehensive work on the concept of eschatology (Das Eschaton und die Eschata, München 1987).