Description: This volume demonstrates how Friedrich Schleiermacher's thought can be used to address contemporary doctrinal refinement and development. Taking a constructive approach, Shelli M. Poe weaves Schleiermacher's theology together with current scholarship in feminism, womanism, ecotheology, and queer theology. While Schleiermacher is widely acclaimed as the progenitor of modern theology, Poe is one of the first to use his work as a springboard to refine contemporary doctrine. This book demonstrates the promise of Schleiermacher's mature work for contemporary constructive forms of theology.
Brief description: Shelli M. Poe is Visiting Professor at Iliff School of Theology, USA.
Review Quotes:
"The Constructive Promise of Schleiermacher's Theology is a valuable work because of how it connects the insights of Schleiermacher with current theological work, especially by feminist, womanist, and queer theologians and ethicists ... While Schleiermacher is well known for his understanding of theological work as speaking to the needs and realities of its own age, Poe shows how this should always be done in conversation with earlier ages, whose needs, realities, and resulting theologies, retain constructive promise for our own present considerations." --International Journal of Systematic Theology
"Schleiermacher is a wonderful theologian to think with even if - or maybe because - he never expected everyone to agree with him. What he did want is theologically active pastors who addressed the problems of their own day with bravery and faith. Shelli M Poe does a wonderful service in bringing his thought to bear on issues which are points of pain in our time, and were so in his." --Janet Soskice, Professor, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK "Poe creates an interesting and exciting conversation between what may at first appear unlikely partners: Schleiermacher and feminist, womanist and queer theologians and ecotheologians. Her aim is to suggest that contemporary theologians have a creative partner in their theological forebear. This leads to a challenging and enlivening book which is worth your time and will spark your thinking in new ways." --Lisa Isherwood, Professor, University of Wales Trinity St David, UK "Shelli M. Poe offers us a Schleiermacher for today. Creatively reinterpreting central elements of his theology in deep conversation with feminist, womanist, queer, ecotheological, and other perspectives, The Constructive Promise of Schleiermacher's Theology delivers what it promises: a joyous (and much-needed) engagement with a theologian of joy." --Linn Marie Tonstad, Associate Professor of Theology, Religion, and Sexuality, Yale Divinity School, USA