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Article: God and Caesar: Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Ecumenical Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Constance L. Benson, God and Caesar: Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation, New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK), Transaction Publishers, 1999, US$44.95.
Constance L. Benson places Troeltsch's landmark work, The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches, within the context of late 19th and early 20th century German politics. In particular she argues that Troeltsch's point of view in The Social Teaching is a polemical response to Karl Kautsky's Forerunners of Modern Socialism, published 17 years earlier. She argues that Troeltsch scholars (including political liberals like Reinhold Niebuhr and James L. Adams) have overlooked the impact on The Social Teaching ...