Idealism, Empiricism, and “Other Religions” Troeltsch's Reading of William James

Troeltsch studies, and new translations of his writings, have become increasingly prominent during the past fifteen years. Theologians reflecting a wide range of positions have begun to discover in Troeltsch their own issues and concerns. Some found in Troeltsch the prototype for a “fundamental theology,” grounding the particularity of Christian faith in a more universal philosophical framework. Others took up Troeltsch's role as “theologian of the history of religions school” as a model for the interaction of theology and religious studies in our own time. Theologians concerned with the status of Christian truth claims in the context of religious pluralism have grasped hold of Troeltsch as the pioneer in this endeavor, at least within the history of Christian theology. In brief, Troeltsch now seems to be very relevant, a nineteenth-century thinker who somehow anticipated a multitude of religious concerns prominent in the late twentieth century and hence, the subject of more interest and activity than at any time since his death

Afterlife · Christian theology · Christianity · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Faith · Idealism · Pluralism (philosophy) · Reading (process) · Religious pluralism · Subject (documents) · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

• Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West

  Open Access•Ninian Smart, John Clayton et al.•Nineteenth-Century Religious…•1985

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• Varieties of religious experience

  Open Access•Patricia Storace•Critical Quarterly•1985

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• Ernst-Troeltsch and the Future of Theology

  William R Garrett, John Powell Clayton et al.•Sociological Analysis•1978

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• Ernst Troeltsch

  David Trickett, David G Trickett et al.•Journal for the Scientific Study…•1979

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