Table of contents for Against false apologetics : Wilhelm Herrmann and Ernst Troeltsch in conflict / Brent W. Sockness.

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Introduction: The Paradigmatic Significance of Wilhelm Herrmann
and Ernst Troeltsch  .....................................  1
The Consensus ..........................................  2
The Desideratum  .........................................  13
Part I:
Herrmann as an Interpreter of Troeltsch
Chapter 1: -First Impressions:
Troeltsch as Orthodox Dogmatician ........................  19
Chapter 2: A Mixed Review:
Herrmann's Review of The Absoluteness of Christianity .......... 28
Chapter 3: Increasing Distance:
Against Religionswissenschaft ............................... .  41
Troeltsch the Reactionary Protestant ...........................  43
Troeltsch the Reductionistic Objectifier of Religion ................  49
Troeltsch the Pseudo-Scientist of Religion  .......................  59
Chapter 4: Breach and Bitterness:
Herrmann's Reaction to The Significance of the Historicity
ofJesus for Faith .........................................  75
Chapter 5: Reverberations and Digressions:
Herrmann's Last Commentary on Troeltsch ..................  86



Part II:
Troeltsch as an Interpreter of Herrmann
Chapter 6: First Impressions:
Neo-Kantian Subjectivism and Ritschlian Isolationism .........  97
Chapter 7: A Mixed Review:
Troeltsch's Critique of Herrmann's Ethics .................... 123
Chapter 8: Increasing Perplexity:
Supernatural Faith on a Kantian Edifice ................... 146
The Use and Abuse of History - and Kant ....................... 150
Herrmann and the "Agnostic Theology of Mediation" ............... 156
Honest Bewilderment ..................................... 165
Chapter 9: A Theological Halfway House: Herrmann's Place
in The Significance of the Historicity of esus for Faith ............ .. 170
The Hodgepodge  ........................................  172
A Tacit Argument with Herrmann ............................. 179
Practical Rapprochement ........................... .......  184
Chapter 10: The Aftermath:
Personal Reconciliation? ................................. 187
Ethics Revisited ......................................... 189
A Conciliatory Letter .................................... 192
Conclusion: False Apologetics and Modernity:
The Ambiguous Legacy of Schleiermacher's "Eternal Covenant".. 199
Against False Apologetics ................................... 199
The Conceptual Impasse ....................................  205
Ambiguity in the Eternal Covenant ............................ 214