The Formation of Historical Theology: A Study of Ferdinand Christian Baur

This classic work from 1966 was the first full-length study of F.C. Bauer to appear in English. In The Fomation of Historical Theology, Bauer emerges as a brilliantly theological thinker. His work not only spoke profoundly to the theological disputes of his own time but continues to speak prophetically to the major theological problems of our contemporary age as well. Hodgson has worked extensively with Bauer’s sermons, manuscripts, and published works on historical theology in ways that have exhaustively explored the intricate relations between scholarly research and theological philosophical presuppositions, which, in the end, has illumined Bauer’s context and significance.