Zachary Purvis's research while affiliated with University of Oxford and other places
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Publications (5)
In 1833, the Swiss city-republic of Basel separated into two distinct cantons. During the three-year period known as the “Troubles” ( Wirren ), landowners in the countryside, inspired by the French July Revolution of 1830, rebelled against the city government. The roots of the division, however, run deeper in Basel's religious and theological cultu...
In the early 1800s, two figures foundational to modern intellectual life, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Friedrich Schleiermacher, engaged in what they called a "quiet war," stemming from Schelling's famous lectures on the method of academic study and Schleiermacher's reaction. This paper argues that their "quiet war" resulted in a powerful...
Chapman Mark D., Theology and Society in Three Cities: Berlin, Oxford and Chicago, 1800–1914 (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2014), pp. 152, ISBN 978-0-227-67989-0. - Volume 14 Issue 1 - Zachary Purvis
The rise of German academic institutions in the nineteenth century considerably altered the landscape of American higher education. American students of theology looked to Germany to develop their discipline, where they found model textbooks that gave directives in learning and piety, transforming academic and theological practice. With sensitivity...
This paper examines various nineteenth-century appropriations of classical Protestantism, the age of post-Reformation confessionalization and orthodoxy. I focus on an important source from the 1850s, namely Isaak AugustDorner’s famed essay on the problemof divine immutability. Though Karl Barth and others fixated on Dorner’s constructive arguments...
