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The Supernatural-Become-Natural— Scholars are now at work not only rethinking Schleiermacher’s relation to the modern and contemporary theological tradition, but re-examining the dogmatic intricacies and commitments within his texts. Kevin M. Vander Schel takes up the important issue of the coordination of grace and history in Schleiermacher, arguing for its significance in understanding the dynamics of Schleiermacher’s dogmatics and its grounding and realization in Christology. The project not only continues the recasting of Schleiermacher’s work in its wider context but unpacks the dogmatic network within the paramount texts, as well as brings to the fore crucial texts often neglected in English language scholarship. As such, this volume performs an innovative rethinking of revelation, grace, history, Christology, and ecclesiology in Schleiermacher, with particular attention to the pivotal dogmatic volume The Christian Faith and the unpublished Christian Ethics. This is a commanding volume for scholars and students in modern and contemporary theology. Praise for Embedded Grace “In this contextually rich and conceptually rigorous book, Kevin Vander Schel makes a compelling case for the claim that Schleiermacher’s device of the ‘supernatural-becomingnatural ’ represents his attempt at a third way between rationalism and supernaturalism. Vander Schel traces the influence of this device through Schleiermacher’s dogmatics and his Christian ethics. The book illuminates a theme in Schleiermacher’s work that is crucial for understanding how his work was shaped by the theological concerns of his day, and for appreciating how Schleiermacher intended his work as an intervention in the historical course of Protestant theology.” Andrew Dole | Amherst College Religion / Theology Kevin M. Vander Schel is a Catherine of Siena postdoctoral fellow at Villanova University. He earned an MA and PhD in theology from Boston College. As a Fulbright scholar, Vander Schel studied the unpublished papers of Schleiermacher at Humboldt University in Berlin. This volume is a revision of a dissertation completed at Boston College under the direction of Fred Lawrence. Vander Schel Give Me Children or I Shall Die e m e r g i n g s c h o l a r s Embedded Grace Embedded Grace Christ, History, and the Reign of God in Schleiermacher’s Dogmatics Kevin M. Vander Schel ...

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