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In the Christian Archives: Sacrifice, the Higher Criticism, and the History of Religion

Modern intellectual history, 2022-12, Vol.19 (4), p.1208-1226 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press ;ISSN: 1479-2443 ;EISSN: 1479-2451 ;DOI: 10.1017/S1479244321000275

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  • Title:
    In the Christian Archives: Sacrifice, the Higher Criticism, and the History of Religion
  • Author: Sheehan, Jonathan
  • Subjects: 19th century ; Anthropology ; Archives & records ; Bible ; Christianity ; Forum: History's Religion ; God ; Hebrew language ; Phenomenology ; Philosophers ; Protestantism ; Religion ; Religious history ; Theology
  • Is Part Of: Modern intellectual history, 2022-12, Vol.19 (4), p.1208-1226
  • Description: Much recent scholarship has shown just how indebted the secular sciences of religion were to the Protestant world from which they grew. Yet this “Protestant world” is typically described schematically, as if Protestantism offered a coherent worldview or even a consistent set of doctrines. A different picture emerges if we deepen our historical horizon, and explore the reflexes, aspirations, and norms that have found a home in the Christian (in this case, Protestant) theological imagination. This “Christian archive” was a heterogeneous place, with room for many things that we would now call secular or even profane. Protestant reform in fact began by condemning this heterogeneity, insisting that much of what the church had come to see was sacred was, at best, only and all too human. Yet centuries of conflict in Europe over the truth of Christianity only pluralized this archive further. The nineteenth-century history of religion grew less out of “Protestantism,” in other words, than out of the sedimented mixture of theological, historical, philological, and anthropological materials inherited from these earlier moments. It was, moreover, also an intellectual project that discovered new uses for these materials and thereby opened new horizons of humanistic inquiry. This article makes this argument with reference to sacrifice—a theological challenge for Christian thinkers from the outset of the tradition, but especially for Protestants; a magnet for diverse historical, anthropological, and theological reflections; and a productive zone of inquiry for the nineteenth-century German philosophers, philologians, and “higher critics” of the Hebrew Bible who together helped create the modern history of religion.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1479-2443
    EISSN: 1479-2451
    DOI: 10.1017/S1479244321000275
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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