Table Of ContentSchleiermacher and Whitehead
Theologische Bibliothek
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Schleiermacher and Whitehead
Open Systems in Dialogue
Edited by
Christine Helmer
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Marjorie Suchocki, John Quiring, and Katie Goetz
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1. Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 1768-1834. 2. Whitehead, Alfred
North, 1861-1947. 3. Philosophical theology. 4. System theory.
I. Helmer, Christine. II. Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann ;
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Acknowledgements
This collection of essays records a dialogue on thinking anew about system
for contemporary theology and philosophy. The dialogue took place at a
symposium entitled, "System and Life: Schleiermacher and Whitehead,"
held on March 6-8, 2003 at the Claremont School of Theology and the
Center for Process Studies in Claremont, California. I thank Prof. Dr. Mar-
jorie Hewitt Suchocki for her wholehearted support of the project and for
the opportunity to teach a spirited seminar on Schleiermacher and White-
head with her during the spring term 2003. I also thank Prof. Dr. John
Quiring for his patient and detailed organization of the conference and for
hospitality at the Center for Process Studies, especially for the chocolates!
My gratitude goes to the authors who each contributed a chapter to this
volume. I thank them for having engaged the topic, for having pressed
it for its dialogical possibilities, and for having cleared creative paths for
constructive systematic thinking.
The financial aspect is not only necessary for the facilitation of academic
dialogue, but represents the confidence of the funding institutions in such
an endeavor. I am grateful to the Claremont School of Theology, especially
to President Philip A. Amerson and to Dean John R. Fitzmier, as well as
to the Center for Process Studies, for extending financial grace to both the
conference and the book. The final preparation of this volume for publica-
tion was done during a sabbatical leave in the spring of 2004. I thank both
the Claremont School of Theology for granting me a research leave and
the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung for generously funding my stay as a
Humboldt Research Fellow at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
The production of this book is the result of wisdom, expertise, and time,
all granted by the following colleagues. My sincere appreciation goes to
Dr. K. F. Diethard Römheld, who typeset the articles with an infectious
happiness that permeated the electronic communication of this bi-conti-
nental book. I thank Dr. Albrecht Döhnert, editor for theology, Jew-
ish studies, and religious studies at Walter de Gruyter, for his enthusiastic
guidance of this project from start to finish and for his serious commit-
ment to the international, "bilingual," and open dialogue represented by
VI Acknowledgements
this collection. And I also thank Prof. Dr. Oswald Bayer, Prof. Dr. Wil-
fried Härle, and Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Müller, for kindly consenting to ac-
cept this volume in Walter deGruyter's Theologische Bibliothek Töpel-
mann series. This book would not have been possible without the editorial
efforts of Prof. Dr. Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, Prof. Dr. John Quiring, and
Katie Goetz. I am grateful to them for their generosity of editing spirit, and
especially to Katie, for her incredible attention to both detail and the big
picture and for sustaining the production by cheerfully mediating all levels
of intersubjective dialogue.
The dialogue with Prof. Dr. Robert A. Orsi was an invitation to live. I
thank him for the joy of lived novelty that transforms and sustains identity.
Christine Helmer
Abbreviations
FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER
BO Brief Outline of Theology as a Field of Study (1811 /
1830). Trans. Terrence N. Tice. Schleiermacher Studies
and Translations, vol. 1. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen
Press, 1990.
CF The Christian Faith (1830/31). Ed. H. R. Mackintosh
and J. S. Stewart. Trans. D. M. Baillie et al. Edinburgh:
Τ & Τ Clark, 1999.
CG Der christliche Glaube nach den Grundsätzen der
Evangelischen Kirche im Zusammenhange dargestellt
(1830/31). Reproduction of 7th ed. of 1960. Ed.
Martin Redeker. De Gruyter Studienbuch. Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Dial(i8i ι) Dialektik (1811). Ed. Andreas Arndt. Philosophische
Bibliothek, no. 386. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1986.
Dialectic(i8i i) Dialecticor, The Art of Doing Philosophy (1811). Trans.,
with Introduction and Notes Terrence N. Tice.
American Academy of Religion Texts and Translations
Series, no. 11. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
E>ial(i 814 / 15) Dialektik (1814/1 j) and Einleitung zur Dialektik
(1833). Ed. Andreas Arndt. Philosophische Bibliothek,
no. 387. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1988.
Diahooi Dialektik. Ed. and Introduction Manfred Frank. 2 vols.
Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, no. 1529.
Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 2001.
DialJ Dialektik, aus Schleiermachers handschriftlichem
Nachlasse. Ed. Ludwig Jonas. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1839
[= SW III. 4/2].
DialKGA Vorlesungen über die Dialektik. Ed. Andreas Arndt.
2 vols. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002
[= KGA II. 10/1-2].
Vili Abbreviations
DialO Dialektik: Im Auf trage der Preußischen Akademie
der Wissenschaften auf Grund bisher unveröffentlichten
Materials. Ed. Rudolf Odebrecht. Leipzig:
J. C. Hinrichs, 1942; reprint, Darmstadt:
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1976.
Hermeneutics Hermeneutics and Criticism and Other Writings. Ed.
and trans. Andrew Bowie. Cambridge Texts in the
History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998.
KD Kurze Darstellung des theologischen Studiums zum
Behuf einleitender Vorlesungen (1810/ i8jo). Ed.
Heinrich Scholz. Quellenschriften zur Geschichte des
Protestantismus, no. 10. Leipzig, 1910; reprint in
Bibliothek Klassischer Texte. Darmstadt:
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1993.
KGA Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Ed. Hermann Fischer,
Ulrich Barth, Conrad Kramer, Günter Meckenstock,
and Kurt-Victor Selge. 5 parts, until now 21 vols. Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter, 1983-present.
LJ The Life of Jesus. Ed. and Introduction
Jack C. Verheyden. Trans. S. Maclean Gilmour.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1975; reprint, Mifflintown:
Sigler Press, 1997.
On Religion On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers. Ed. and
trans. Richard Crouter. Cambridge Texts in the
History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
Speeches On Religion·. Speeches to its Cultured Despisers. Trans.
John Oman. Foreword Jack Forstman. Louisville:
Westminster /John Knox, 1994.
SW Sämmtliche Werke. Ed. Ludwig Jonas et al. 3 parts,
31 vols. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1834-1864.
Abbreviations IX
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
AI Adventures of Ideas ( 1933 ). New York: The Free Press,
1967.
CN The Concept of Nature (1920). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1964.
ESP Essays in Science and Philosophy. New York:
Philosophical Library, 1947.
FR The Function of Reason (1929). Boston: Beacon Press,
1958.
Imm. "Immortality." In Essays in Science and Philosophy,
77-96. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
MG "Mathematics and the Good." In Essays in Science and
Philosophy, 97-113. New York: Philosophical Library,
1947·
MT Modes of Thought ( 1938). New York: The Free Press,
1968.
PM ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD and BERTRAND RUSSELL,
Principia Mathematica. 3 vols. 2nd ed. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1925-1927.
PR Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology ( 1929).
Corrected ed. David Ray Griffin and
Donald W. Sherburne. New York: The Free Press, 1978.
RM Religion in the Making (1926). New York: Fordham
University Press, 1996.
S Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect ( 192/). New York:
Capricorn Books, 1959.
SMW Science and the Modern World ( 192 j). New York: The
Free Press, 1967.
