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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 work 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?

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' An excellent, judicious, overview of the topic, the author clarifies and questions assumptions of Christian theology and Religionswissenschaft alike. ' Leo D. Lefebure, Religious Studies Review , 1995.

'An excellent, judicious, overview of the topic, the author clarifies and questions assumptions of Christian theology and Religionswissenschaft alike.' Leo D. Lefebure, Religious Studies Review, 1995.

' An excellent, judicious, overview of the topic, the author clarifies and questions assumptions of Christian theology and Religionswissenschaft alike.'<br>Leo D. Lefebure, Religious Studies Review, 1995.<br>

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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).

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