Liberal theology vs dialectical theology: the problem of divergences and tangencies

Abstract

In the article are examined the fundamental principles of liberal theology, that found the ground in the works of F. Schleiermacher, A. Ritschl, A. Harnack, E. Troeltsch and others. The author also analyzes the reasons of these principles formation and the specific of their critical rethinking by the representatives of dialectical theology. The article accents a special attention on fundamental divergences in vision the ways of updating protestantism in the context of new sociocultural, world view and religious realities by these two directions of protestant theology.