The Trinity in German Thought Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon	12
2	Between scholastic theology and Enlightenment	31
	Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf	32
	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	46
3	The critical Enlightenment	60
	Hermann Samuel Reimarus	63
	Johann Salomo Semler	69
	Gotthold Lessing	80
	Friedrich Schleiermacher	87
4	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	104
	Preliminary orientation	104
	The nature of conceptual comprehension	111
	Questions of method	113
	The idea of revelation	116
	The ontological Trinity of eternity	120
	The Trinity of history	128
	The Spirit	134
5	Liberal theology	142
	Albrecht Ritschl	142
	The spirit of Melanchthon	146
	History and criticism	160
	God's selfhood as person	166
6	The twentieth century	173
	The Word and the Trinity	175
	God's selfhood and the Trinity	210
	The historicity of Bible and tradition	239
	The historicity of God	246
	Postscript to twentieth-century Trinitarian thought	260
	Bibliography of works consulted	264
	Index	276