Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The life of Eduard B�ohl (1836-1903) : "Christianus mihi nomen--reformatus cognomen!" -- B�ohl's life in outline -- Family background and education -- B�ohl's stint at the University of Basel -- B�ohl's appointment to the Protestant faculty of Vienna -- B�ohl's ecclesial and academic work, 1864-1899 -- B�ohl and Bullinger's Second helvetic confession -- Kohlbr�ugge and B�ohl's trip to Bohemia and Moravia -- Der evangelische sonntagsbote aus �Osterreich -- B�ohl's influence at the General Synod of the Evangelische kirche helvetischen bekenntnisses (HB) -- B�ohl as the leader of Kohlbr�ugge's followers -- B�ohl's academic work at the Protestant faculty of Vienna -- Preliminary assessment of B�ohl's theology -- Immediate theological antecedents : B�ohl as a K�ohlbruggian -- Hermann Griedrich Kohlbr�ugge's influence on B�ohl's theology -- Hermann Friedrich Kohlbr�ugge's life -- B�ohl's struggle with Kohlbr�ugge's theology -- B�ohl's endorsement of Kohlbr�ugge's theology -- B�ohl's theology challenged by Kuenen and Kuyper -- B�ohl and Kuenen -- B�ohl and Kuyper -- B�ohl and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam -- B�ohl under Kuyper's sustained fire -- B�ohl--Kohlbr�uggian or neo-Kohlbr�uggian? -- B�ohl's perspective on the Bible's coherence : Christ in the Old Testament -- B�ohl's Christological interpretation of the Old Testament -- The programme of B�ohl's Christologie des alten testamentes -- Genesis 3:15 as the first messianic prophecy -- Genesis 3:15 as the hermeneutical guide to the Old Testament -- B�ohl's historico-Christological reading of the Old Testament -- B�ohl's Old Testament Christology in context -- B�ohl and Hengstenberg in comparison -- B�ohl and Von Hofmann in comparison -- Evaluation of B�ohl's critique and his own proposal for his time -- B�ohl's controversy with Abraham Kuenen -- Kuenen's critique of B�ohl's Zwolf messianische Psalmen erkl�art -- B�ohl's Ewiederung to Kuenen's attack -- Theological and exegetical presuppositions of this debate -- The shape of B�ohl's Old Testament exegesis -- B�ohl's views on the inspiration of the Scriptures -- B�ohl's biblical hermeneutics -- B�ohl's conception of the Bible's main character : the incarnation of the logos -- Anthropology -- Man's created state -- The fall -- The fallen state -- Christology -- Christology of the Old Testament -- Christology of the New Testament -- Christ's struggle with and victory over sin -- The two states of Christ -- The union of the logos with the human nature -- Evaluation of B�ohl's christology -- B�ohl's debate with Kuyper on the incarnation -- Kuyper's critique of B�ohl's incarnation -- B�ohl's response to Kuyper -- Comparison and evaluation of the debate between Kuyper and B�ohl -- B�ohl's conviction of the Bible's message : justification by faith alone -- Justification : the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae -- B�ohl's understanding of the nature of justification -- Justification in the Ordo Salutis -- Justification in B�ohl's view of the Sacraments -- Evaluation of B�ohl's views on the Ordo Salutis and the Sacraments -- B�ohl and his opponents on justification -- Albrecht Ritschl's 'dualism' -- 'Pantheism' in Protestant theology -- Osiander's 'pantheism' -- Osiandrism in reformed theology -- B�ohl's debate with Kuyper -- Evaluation of B�ohl's doctrine of justification -- Summary and assessment of B�ohl's theology : reception and influence -- The central features of B�ohl's theology -- The Bible's coherence -- The Bible's main character -- The Bible's main message -- The basic theological thrust of B�ohl's theology -- The reception of B�ohl's theology -- Negative reviews of B�ohl's books -- Positive reviews of B�ohl's books -- The influence of B�ohl's theology -- The conferences for the Dutch and German ministers -- The conferences for the Czech and Hungarian ministers -- The Czech followers of B�ohl -- B�ohl--cur theologicus incognitus?.

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