Ferdinand Christian Baur and the History of Early Christianity

Content: Cover
 Ferdinand Christian Baur and the History of Early Christianity
 Copyright
 Preface to the English Edition
 Preface to the German Edition
 Contents
 Abbreviations
 List of Contributors
 Part I: Connections and Demarcations
 1: Ferdinand Christian Baur and David Friedrich Strauss
 Introduction
 Baur as Teacher in Blaubeuren and Tübingen
 Straussś Scholarly Beginnings up to the Initial Falling-out with Baur (1836)
 Relations Until the Break of 1846
 After the ``Renunciation Letter ́́of 1846
 After Baurś Death
 Epilogue 2: Ethical Judgment and Ecclesiastical Self-Understanding: Ferdinand Christian Baurś Interpretation of the Protestant Principle in the Controversywith Johann Adam MöhlerIntroduction: Ecclesiological Implications of Public Positions Taken by Institutions of the Protestant Church
 Johann Adam Möhler and Ferdinand Christian Baur: Recalling a Debate
 The External Framework
 The Ground and Concerns of Baurś Refutation
 The Agenda and Profile of Johann Adam Möhlerś Ecclesiology
 The Background
 Möhler: The Institution of the Church and the Concern for Religious Subjectivity What Is Achieved by this PositionPresent Effects
 Transformation of the Christian Idea: Ferdinand Christian Baur
 The Central Issue in the Confessional Difference: Ecclesiology and Justification
 The Distinction between Faith and Works as the Discovery of Subjectivity
 Ecclesiological Implications
 The Freedom of the Subject
 Idea and Actuality
 The Effects of Believing Subjectivity
 Möhler Once Again: the Church as Normative Formational Institution
 Conclusion
 3: Ferdinand Christian Baur: A Historically Informed Idealistof a Distinctive Kind Against Suprarationalism and Rationalism: The Development of the Idealist PositionGnosis and Reconciliation: Baurś Methodological and Substantive Proximity to Hegel
 Historical-Critical Method and the Definition of the Essence of Christianity in the Categories of Practical Reason: Baurś ...
 Baur: a Historically Informed Idealist of a Distinctive Kind
 Part II: Historical and Exegetical Perspectives
 4: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Theological Task of New Testament Introduction
 5: Baur and the Creation of the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy Baur and the Creation of the Judaism-Hellenism DichotomyRevisiting the Textual Base
 Linguistic Aspects: What Does Hellēnistai Mean?
 Social Aspects: Should hellēnistai and hebraioi Be Considered Parties?
 Ideological Aspects: Did the Hellēnistai Have a Certain Theology?
 Results of the Exegetical Analysis
 The Jerusalem Church Through Tübingen Spectacles
 Baurian Hermeneutics and the Emergence of the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy
 6: Ferdinand Christian Baurś View of Christian Gnosis, and of the Philosophy of Religion in His Own Day
 The Essential Nature of Christian Gnosis in Antiquity