an astute, fascinating, and highly recommended scholarly treatment of a theologian whose relevance for the present, as Chapman argues, should be made as clear as possible. Journal of the Academy of Religion Chapman's book is an important and compelling contribution to the study of Troeltsch. His scholarship is richly illuminating and thorough, and his style is concise and lively. Journal of the Academy of Religion ... a major contribution to the continuing scholarly interest in the early-twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch. Journal of the Academy of Religion