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Ausgabe:

Juni/2023

Spalte:

600-602

Kategorie:

Dogmen- und Theologiegeschichte

Autor/Hrsg.:

Lee II, James Ambrose

Titel/Untertitel:

Confessional Lutheranism and German Theological Wissenschaft. Adolf Harleß, August Vilmar, and Johannes Christian Konrad von Hofmann.

Verlag:

Berlin u. a.: De Gruyter 2022. X, 307 S. = Theolgische Bibliothek Töpelmann, 198. Geb. EUR 89,95. ISBN 9783110760538.

Rezensent:

Paul Silas Peterson

In James Ambrose Lee’s published dissertation from St. Louis University he addresses a very important and difficult subject, the German Protestant theological struggle with an understanding of theology as »science«. L. left the German terms Wissenschaft and wissenschaftlich in German, which is somewhat understandable, yet also occasionally laborious, given that it is used in every paragraph, and often multiple times in one sentence. »Science« (or in the given case, »natural science«) would have been entirely sufficient for his readership. The translations are good, yet Hofmann’s central term »Tatbestand« (»the matter of fact«) is also left in German.

The study’s introduction could have spent more time on the terminological continuity with Latin ...


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