Acknowledgements
A number of colleagues have supported me with this project over the
years. I want to mention especially Peter De Mey, Ismo Dunderberg,
Christine Helmer, Veronika Hoffmann, Heikki Ikäheimo, Werner
Jeanrond, Arto Laitinen, Virpi Mäkinen, Friederike Nüssel, Robert
Orsi, Elisabeth Parmentier, Sami Pihlström, Joel Robbins, Andrea
Robiglio, Michael Welker, and the anonymous referees of the pub-
lisher. Several younger scholars of our Helsinki Centre of Excellence
‘Reason and Religious Recognition’, funded by the Academy of
Finland, have read and commented on parts of the manuscript.
The Academy of Finland as well as the faculties of Theology at the
University of Helsinki, the Catholic University of Leuven, and the
University of Heidelberg have provided me with excellent working
and library conditions. I am grateful to Roderick McConchie and the
editors of Oxford University Press for improving my language and style.
Earlier versions of Tables 4.1 and 4.2 have appeared in Saarinen
2014 and 2016. Saarinen 2015 utilizes some of the ideas of section 3.2.
I thank Cambridge Scholars Press, Verlag Karl Alber, and Mohr
Siebeck Tübingen for due permissions.