Historical prolegomena Goal and method The scope of theological thinking from the Enlightenment : doubt Preparatory conceptions : Descartes and the Enlightenment Descartes : the breakthrough to the human subject Reimarus and deism G.E. Lessing : the question of the unconditioned in history J.S. Semler : the question of the conditioning of revelation by history The great systems of the 18th and 19th centuries and their influence F.D.E. Schleiermacher : the correlation of religion, Christianity, and consciousness The influence of Schleiermacher: In Lutheranism: J.C.K. von Hofmann ; In the reformed world: Alexander Schweizer
Interlude : the new humanism or human liberation
Theological Kantians: Albrecht Ritschl ; Wilhelm Herrmann
Theologians influenced by Hegel: A.E. Biedermann ; Karl Barth ; Richard Rothe : the speculative outsider
Left-wing Hegelians: David Friedrich Strauss ; Ludwig Feuerbach ; Karl Marx and Marxism
The struggle for the unconditionality of Christian truth
Søren Kierkegaard : existential unconditionality
Ernst Troeltsch : unconditionality from relativism
