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Overview"The Rebirth of Revelation explores the different and important ways religious thinkers across Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism modernized the concept of revelation from 1750 to 1850. Despite being a pillar of belief in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the idea of revelation was deeply discredited over the course of the Enlightenment. The post-Enlightenment restoration of revelation among German religious thinkers is a fascinating yet underappreciated moment in modern efforts to navigate between reason and faith. The Rebirth of Revelation compares Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish reflections on revelation from 1750 to 1850 and asserts that a strategic transformation in the term's meaning secured its relevance for the modern age. Tuska Benes argues that ""propositional"" revelation, understood as the infallible dispensation of doctrine, gave way to revelation as a subjective process of inner transformation or the historical disclosure of divine being in the world. By comparatively approaching the unconventional ways in which Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism have rehabilitated the concept of revelation, The Rebirth of Revelation restores theology to a central place in modern European intellectual history." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tuska BenesPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9781487543075ISBN 10: 1487543077 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 22 February 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsIn the face of Enlightenment scepticism, defenders of revelation had to either double down on orthodoxy or reinvent revelation in accordance with the demands of the age. Benes's important new book tracks a host of German thinkers across many different disciplines and often profoundly different vantage points who chose the latter. Lucidly written, deeply researched, and synthetic in its grasp, The Rebirth of Revelation will be invaluable to anyone interested in the place of religion in the intellectual history of modern Europe. - Warren Breckman, Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania In this groundbreaking study, Tuska Benes gives us a brilliant analysis of what modernity did to our belief in divine revelation. Reborn and redefined by the theologians of the nineteenth century, revelation became the key to thinking in new ways about Scripture, history, society, and what it means to be a human being. Written with amazing clarity and vivacious enthusiasm for ideas, this is not only a superb work of scholarship but also fabulously fun to read! - Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, and author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Tuska Benes has written a remarkable book about one of the most momentous periods in German intellectual history. Her grasp of a wide variety of authors - some famous, others almost unknown - is stunning and has allowed her to create a narrative that is both complex and innovative. This book is highly recommended to all those interested in the history of theological and religious thought in modernity. - Johannes Zachhuber, Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, University of Oxford Tuska Benes's deeply learned and incisively argued study shows us how a host of nineteenth-century German thinkers - Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish - made elaborate, ingenious attempts to reconcile reason and revelation. That by 1905 it was widely acknowledged that this quest had failed, Benes argues, marks a sharper break in the history of ideas than did the Enlightenment. Benes's book is a must-read for anyone interested in relations between reason and faith in modern Europe. - Suzanne Marchand, Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University In the face of Enlightenment scepticism, defenders of revelation had to either double down on orthodoxy or reinvent revelation in accordance with the demands of the age. Benes's important new book tracks a host of German thinkers across many different disciplines and often profoundly different vantage points who chose the latter. Lucidly written, deeply researched, and synthetic in its grasp, The Rebirth of Revelation will be invaluable to anyone interested in the place of religion in the intellectual history of modern Europe. - Warren Breckman, Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania In this groundbreaking study, Tuska Benes gives us a brilliant analysis of what modernity did to our belief in divine revelation. Reborn and redefined by the theologians of the nineteenth century, revelation became the key to thinking in new ways about Scripture, history, society, and what it means to be a human being. Written with amazing clarity and vivacious enthusiasm for ideas, this is not only a superb work of scholarship but also fabulously fun to read! - Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, and author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Tuska Benes has written a remarkable book about one of the most momentous periods in German intellectual history. Her grasp of a wide variety of authors - some famous, others almost unknown - is stunning and has allowed her to create a narrative that is both complex and innovative. This book is highly recommended to all those interested in the history of theological and religious thought in modernity. - Johannes Zachhuber, Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, University of Oxford Tuska Benes's deeply learned and incisively argued study shows us how a host of nineteenth-century German thinkers - Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish - made elaborate, ingenious attempts to reconcile reason and revelation. That by 1905 it was widely acknowledged that this quest had failed, Benes argues, marks a sharper break in the history of ideas than did the Enlightenment. Benes's book is a must-read for anyone interested in relations between reason and faith in modern Europe. - Suzanne Marchand, Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University Author InformationTuska Benes is an associate professor of History at The College of William and Mary. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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