The Christian Faith

by Ernst Troeltsch

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1991

Overview

The first English translation of Troeltsch’s Glaubenslehre. The first attempt to do systematic theology from a deep Christian commitment with full awareness of Christianity’s social and historical relativity.

Key Features

• Has the first English translation of Troeltsch’s Glaubenslehre.
• Explains the si ignificance of Jesus for faith.
• Unfolds the Christian concept of redemption.

Praise for The Christian Faith

Too hastily dismissed by a previous theological generation, Troeltsch’s explorations of Christian belief have become timely again. His conclusions are not definitive, but his questions and his perspectives have a fresh pertinence, even an urgency, in the present situation.

— B. A. Gerrish, John Nuveen Professor. The University of Chicago Divinity School

Ernst Troeltsch spoke candidly of his own difficult writing style as resembling ‘sailor’s hardtack.’ But I suspect that no one will detect it in Garrett Paul’s elegant rendition into English of the Glaubenslehre. This is no small achievement, for which every reader of this important historical document will be grateful.

— James Luther Adams, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity Emeritus, Harvard Divinity School

Product Details

• Title: Christian Faith
• Author: Ernst Troeltsch
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1991
• Pages: 352
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780800632090, 0800632095
• Resource ID: LLS:CHRISTIANFAITHFTMT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-07T18:13:06Z

About Ernst Troeltsch

Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923) was an important German Protestant theologian and philosopher. He studied at Erlangen, Berlin, and Göttingen, before becoming a lecturer at Göttingen in 1890. In 1892 he became a junior professor at Bonn, then professor of systematic theology at the University of Heidelberg in 1894, where he taught until 1915. From 1915 through the end of his life, he was professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin. Troeltsch is remembered as an advocate of consistent methodological separation of exegesis and systematics, and he is considered one of the great figures of the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, whose influence is felt to this day.