Johannes Zachhuber and theology as a science
Abstract
This article analyses a number of essays by Johannes Zachhuber of Oxford University. In particular, he
highlights the central nodes of his research, in which he reconstructs some of the main currents of
19th-century theology in Germany, which for many reasons are worth appreciating, not only to
identify and recognize the salient clusters of the meaning of a page of our recent past that has had singular
prominence at the highest European level, but also to specify and fully grasp contemporary theology,
which owes so much to 19th-century German theology. The importance of Zachhuber's work, which is
very well-founded and conducted with a solid philological and interpretative basis for these aspects
particularly successful and we can therefore say that it is praiseworthy and exemplary work. With its
informative balance and acumen, Zachhuber's work brings into focus and clarifies the physiognomy of
contemporary theology and the environment in which it arose.
