Religion in the Age of Romanticism

Studies in Early Nineteenth-Century Thought

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ID19898005
AuthorsBernard M G Reardon (corresponding author)
Year1985
Publication date1985-09-12
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueReligion in the Age of Romanticism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511621475
OpenAlexW4254065293
Open LibraryOL2860396M
ISBN9780511621475
LanguageEN
Citations received18

This book presents studies of early-nineteenth century religious thought in Germany, France and Italy in so far as it reflected the influence of the Romantic movement. Romanticism may be notoriously difficult to define, but the cast of mind usually associated with it - manifest in philosophy, theology and social theory as well as in literature, music and the visual arts - is never hard to detect, even though the forms of its expression may vary widely. The authors considered, including Schleiermacher, Hegel, Schelling, Rosmini, Lamennais, Renan and Comte, all took religion seriously as voicing a fundamental impulse of the human spirit, even if the doctrines and institutions of Christianity had in their view to be either radically modified or else rejected outright. They were not satisfied with what they were apt to regard as the 'soulless' rationalism of the preceding century, as equally they feared the growing encroachment of natural science upon the freedom and indeed the self-identity of the human consciousness. A middle way, they sensed, had to be found - one grounded in man's moral and aeshetic experience - between the old orthodoxy and sterile unbelief

Aesthetics · Art · Christianity · Consciousness · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Literature · Orthodoxy · Political science · Romanticism · The arts · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · 19th century · Christianisme · Doctrinal Theology · Histoire des doctrines · History · History of doctrines · Religious aspects · Religious aspects of Romanticism · Romantiek · Romantisme · Théologie · Théologie dogmatique · Theology, doctrinal

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