Theology at War and Peace: English Theology and Germany in the First World War

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Theological responses in England to the South African War, 1899–1902
	The complexities of race
	The Church of England and the rhetoric of empire
	National solidarity
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 Theology, nationalism, and the First World War: Christian ethics and the constraints of politics
	The force and power of nationalism: J. Allen Baker and Randall Davidson
		The impossibility of idealism: J. Allen Baker
		Realism and the constraints of nationalism: Randall Davidson
	Germany, the Sermon on the Mount, and the First World War
		Max Weber: the impossibility of the Gospel
		Otto Baumgarten: the Sermon on the Mount and the First World War
	The ‘ideas of 1914’: the religious function of the Nation
	Finding a ‘new sociological body’
	Towards an ethics of nationalism
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 Missionaries, modernism, and German theology: Anglican reactions to the outbreak of war in 1914
	The missionary background
	War propaganda
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 The Church of England, Serbia, and the Serbian Orthodox Church in the First World War
	A common front against liberalism
	Escaping liberalism
	The perception of Serbia or Servia
	Kosovo Day, 1916
	Pullan’s lectures
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 Anglo-German theological relations in the First World War
	German liberalism and truth
	William Sanday and German theology
	Some theological responses to the outbreak of war
	Correspondence with Germany during the War
	Post-war relations
	Conclusion
	Notes
6 The Sanday, Sherrington, and Troeltsch Affair: Theological relations between England and Germany after the ...
	The aftermath of Sanday’s lecture
	Sherrington’s bombshell
	Troeltsch’s response
	Conclusion
	Notes
7 The ‘sad story’ of Ernst Troeltsch’s proposed British Lectures of 1923
	Troeltsch and the Oxford Summer School for Theology, 1909
	The invitation after the First World War
	Troeltsch’s death
	The Oxford lecture
	The London lectures
	The publication of the lectures
	The reception of the book
	Notes
Bibliography
	Unpublished Papers
	Newspapers
	Printed Sources
Index