The Doctrine of God and the Crisis of Modernity

Jared Michelson

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9780567718976
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

In this incisive work, Michelson traces contemporary debates on the doctrine of God back in time to the philosophical critiques of Hume and Kant. Schleiermacher and Barth each offered accounts of the doctrine of God. This book offers a critical evaluation of these accounts and demonstrates how they were responding to early modern critiques of the possibility of knowing God. Michelson also leverages Charnock's account constructively to demonstrate how this earlier writer has the theological resources to tackle those same critiques. Not content to stop there, Michelson also highlights how these critics built their arguments on faulty interpretations of classical theological tradition. In doing so, this book carves out a provocative, constructive path forward for contemporary theological reflection on the doctrine of God.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 An Ocean of All Perfection: Stephen Charnock’s Reformed Thomist Doctrine of God
• Chapter 3 The Dogmatic Crisis
• Chapter 4 The Old Sorcerer: Schleiermacher and a Liberal Response to the Dogmatic Crisis
• Chapter 5 A Hegelian Interlude: A Hegelian Response to the Modern Dogmatic Crisis?
• Chapter 6 Entschiedung: Barth and an Actualistic Response to the Modern Dogmatic Crisis
• Chapter 7 Assessing the Genealogy and Confronting the Crisis
• Chapter 8 Theology after the Crisis and after Barth
• Chapter 9 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright Page