Revisioning the Past: Prospects in Historical Theology Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Methodological Reflections on Historical Theology
1	Prolegomena to Historical Theology	13
Pt. 2	Essays on Sixteenth-Century Themes
2	Why the Sixteenth Century?	35
3	Historical Theology and Violence against Women: Unearthing a Popular Tradition of Just Battery	51
4	Why We Must Think in the Best Company: Erasmus's Ratio Verae Theologiae and the Limits of the Human Mind	77
5	Suffering as Redemptive: A Comparison of Christian Experience in the Sixteenth and Twentieth Centuries	95
6	Coherence and Incoherence in the Theology of John Calvin	113
7	The Awareness of Divinity and the Knowledge of God in the Theology of Calvin and Schleiermacher	131
Pt. 3	Essays on Nineteenth-Century Themes
8	The Perils of Trying to Tell the Whole Story: Historiographical Issues in the Study of Nineteenth-Century Theology	149
9	Herder and the Origins of a Historical View of Religion: An Informative Perspective for Historical Theology Today	171
10	Historical Theology as Wissenschaft: Johann Sebastian Drey and the Structure of Theology	191
11	Johannes Kuhn: The Nature of Christian Doctrine and the Theological Task	215
12	Albrecht Ritschl and the Heritage of the Reformation	237
13	The Kingdom of God in Germany: From Ritschl to Troeltsch	257
	Theology and the Historical Consciousness	281
	Postscript to "Theology and the Historical Consciousness"	297
	Contributors	307