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Smith (German, UC Irvine) traces a five-hundred year dialogue among (mostly) German theologians and philosophers about faith and reason, but specifically the way that either position interpenetrates the other and assumes some common ground--specifically Logos. He starts with the famous debates between Erasmus and Martin Luther over free will, where faith and reason seem still at odds. Beginning with Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz and Pascal rationalism takes hold of Continental theology. Kant turns to ethics for the Logos, while Hegel to the systematic encounter with the Other in historical consciousness. Other romantic German theologians, like Schelling and Schopenhauer, emphasized feelings and will as the essence and path to God. Smith summaries Nietzsche's "death of God" and the possibility of post-theistic piety, both in Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. In the last few chapters he shows how God returns in dialogical and atheistic theologies of Barth and Buber among others, and finally the way these logo-centric and dialogic-centric traditions are playing out in contemporary, European Catholicism. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
