Protestantische Selbstverortung: Die Rezensionen Ernst Troeltschs

Ernst Troeltsch’s reviews represent a voluminous and programmatically revealing aspect of his oeuvre. Troeltsch was a thinker drawn to argumentation who used his reviews to articulate his concerns in various discursive constellations with differentiated nuances. For this reason, the review was an ideally suited medium for developing his particular understanding of theology, which welcomed complexity.

"This book takes a timely, fresh, and fruitful approach to understanding the nature and concerns of Troeltsch’s work as a Protestant thinker. [...] Bienert lends helpful and instructive coherence to the massive and potentially unwieldy number of reviews that are now part of the collected works of Troeltsch, thanks to the De Gruyter edition. [...] Bienert has provided an instructive reading that touches on issues in Protestant liberal theology and modern theory of religion that will be valuable to contemporary scholarship in religious studies more broadly."
Lori Pearson in: Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 24/1, 2017, S. 142-148