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Title: Edward Caldwell Moore
Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant

Author: Edward Moore

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AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT SINCE KANT

BY

EDWARD CALDWELL MOORE

PARKMAN PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1912

TO
ADOLF HARNACK
ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY
BY HIS FIRST AMERICAN PUPIL

PREFATORY NOTE

It is hoped that this book may serve as an outline for a larger work, in
which the Judgments here expressed may be supported in detail.
Especially, the author desires to treat the literature of the social
question and of the modernist movement with a fulness which has not been
possible within the limits of this sketch. The philosophy of religion
and the history of religions should have place, as also that estimate of
the essence of Christianity which is suggested by the contact of
Christianity with the living religions of the Orient.

PASQUE ISLAND, MASS.,
_July_ 28, 1911.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

A. INTRODUCTION. 1.
B. THE BACKGROUND. 23.
DEISM. 23.
RATIONALISM. 25.
PIETISM. 30.
AESTHETIC IDEALISM. 33.

CHAPTER II

IDEALISTIC PHILOSOPHY. 39.
KANT. 39.
FICHTE. 55.
SCHELLING. 60.
HEGEL. 66.

CHAPTER III

THEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION. 74.
SCHLEIERMACHER. 74.
RITSCHL AND THE RITSCHLIANS. 89

CHAPTER IV

THE CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL MOVEMENT. 110.
STRAUSS. 114.
BAUR. 118.
THE CANON. 123.
THE LIFE OF JESUS. 127.
THE OLD TESTAMENT. 130.
THE HISTORY OF DOCTRINE. 136.
HARNACK. 140.

CHAPTER V

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SCIENCES. 151.
POSITIVISM. 156.
NATURALISM AND AGNOSTICISM. 162.
EVOLUTION. 170.
MIRACLES. 175.
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. 176.

CHAPTER VI

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES; ACTION AND REACTION. 191.
THE POETS. 195.
COLERIDGE. 197.
THE ORIEL SCHOOL. 199