Introduction : on compromise -- Theology and society in post-Napoleonic Berlin -- Reaction and theology in Berlin and Oxford -- National education and the rise of Oxford theology -- Sociology and theology in Chicago -- Conclusion
Summary
Oxford, Berlin and Chicago were extraordinarily dynamic centres of theology during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, significant differences in the political climate and culture of each location bred strikingly divergent theological approaches in the universities of each city. Mark Chapman offers a highly original exploration of the subjection of their theologies to the changes and developments of educational policy and national and international politics, shedding light upon the constraints that such external factors have imposed upon the evolution of the discipline. Chapm
