Kevin M. Vander Schel is a Catherine of Siena postdoctoral fellow at Villanova University. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in theology from Boston College. As a Fulbright scholar, Vander Schel studied the unpublished papers of Schleiermacher at Humboldt University in Berlin.
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"In this contextually rich and conceptually rigorous book, Kevin Vander Schel makes a compelling case for the claim that Schleiermacher's device of the 'supernatural-becoming-natural' represents his attempt at a third way between rationalism and supernaturalism. Vander Schel traces the influence of this device through Schleiermacher's dogmatics and his Christian ethics. The book illuminates a theme in Schleiermacher's work that is crucial for understanding how his work was shaped by the theological concerns of his day, and for appreciating how Schleiermacher intended his work as an intervention in the historical course of Protestant theology." Andrew Dole Amherst College