Abstract:In the Age of Enlightenment, the pragmatic method prevailed in church historiography. Church history and history of dogma were explained by human factors, and thus came into conflict with the dogmatic claims to timeless truth. To preserve such claims in the face of the increasing historicization of knowledge in the nineteenth century, theologians pursued various strategies. In the Vormärz period from 1815 to 1848, one can distinguish three currents: 1) one could try to assert the supra-temporal identity of the… Show more
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