Theology Compromised

Matthew Ryan Robinson is a research associate in the Protestant Theological Faculty of Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn. Evan F. Kuehn is theological librarian and adjunct lecturer in philosophy at Trinity International University.

• Part I – Doing Theology: A Different Theological History Chapter 1 – From Friedrich Schleiermacher to Friedrich Naumann: How Systematic Theology and Social Formation Mutually Respond to and Produce One AnotherChapter 2 – Troeltsch on (Concepts of) the ChurchChapter 3 – Troeltsch’s Theory of CompromiseChapter 4 – Troeltsch and the Politics of CompromisePart II – Contemporary Models Chapter 5 – Hans Joas on Troeltsch, Transcendence, and the Formation of ValuesChapter 6 – Niklas Luhmann and Religious Community under Conditions of ModernityConclusionBibliographyAppendix – TranslationTranslator’s NoteForeword to the Book Schleiermacher, Philosopher of (the) Faith, by Friedrich Naumann“Schleiermacher and the Church,” by Ernst Troeltsch

Theology Compromised: Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, and the Possibility of a Sociological Theology, by Matthew Ryan Robinson and Evan F. Kuehn, is a gem of a book—small, finely crafted, and valuable. This book should inform any discussions of theological method in both precincts favorable and hostile to theology. It provides a powerful, if underdeveloped, paradigm for theological reflection with both historical sanction and reasoned justification.