Research Catalog

Title

The Devil's whore : reason and philosophy in the Lutheran tradition / Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, editor.

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Dragseth, Jennifer Hockenbery.

Description

xvii, 247 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Lutheran history and theology

Uniform Title

Studies in Lutheran history and theology.

Subjects

• Continental philosophy
• Lutheran Church
• Christian philosophy
• Philosophy and religion
• Philosophical theology
• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / David M. Hockenbery -- Philosophical modes of thought of Luther's theology as an object of inquiry / Oswald Bayer -- Does Luther have a "waxen nose?" Historical and philosophical contextualizations of Luther / Christine Helmer -- "Putting on the neighbor": the Ciceronian impulse in Luther's Christian approach to practical reason / Gary M. Simpson -- Luther and Augustine -- revisited / Markus Wriedt -- Whore or handmaid? Luther and Aquinas on the function of reason in theology / Denis R. Janz -- Luther's "atheism" / Paul R. Hinlicky -- Luther's philosophy of language / Dennis Bielfeldt -- Philipp Melanchthon: the first Lutheran philosopher / Charles Peterson -- Reasoning faithfully: Leibniz on reason's triumph of faith and love / Lea F. Schweitz -- Means of revolution: Luther and Kant on the function of the law / Troy Dahlke -- Faith, freedom, conscience: Luther, Fichte, and the principle of inwardness / Christian Lotz -- Hegel and Luther on the finite and the infinite / John F. Hoffmeyer -- "Faith creates the deity": Luther and Feuerbach / Carter Lindberg -- Søren Kierkegaard: between skepticism and faith's happy passion / David J. Gouwens -- Delicious despair and nihilism: Luther, Nietzsche, and the task of living philosophically / Gregory Johnson -- Heidegger's existential domestication of Luther / David Vessey -- Vocation of the philosopher / William R. Russell -- Lutheran environmental philosophy / Sarah E. Fredericks -- Luther and philosophy in a scientific age / Gregory R. Peterson -- Queering kenosis: Luther and Foucault on power and identity / Mary Elise Lowe -- Philosophical kinship: Luther, Schleiermacher, and feminists on reason / Mary J. Streufert -- Provocateur for the common good: reflections on the vocation of an academic philosopher / Pauline M. Kaurin -- Luther and the vocation of public philosophy / Martin E. Marty -- Epilogue: The quandary of Lutheran philosophy / Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth.

Call Number

JFE 11-5281

ISBN

• 9780800698508 (alk. paper)
• 0800698509 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2011021845

OCLC

YBP 2011021845

Title

The Devil's whore : reason and philosophy in the Lutheran tradition / Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, editor.

Imprint

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2011.

Series

Studies in Lutheran history and theology

Studies in Lutheran history and theology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Dragseth, Jennifer Hockenbery.

Research Call Number

JFE 11-5281