Hans L. Martensen on Self-Consciousness, Mysticism, and Freedom

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 371-404
Author(s):  
Curtis L. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Systematic Understanding

Abstract This article examines three early writings of Hans L. Martensen, Søren Kierkegaard’s teacher and the target of his criticisms. The writings focus respectively on self-consciousness, mysticism, and freedom. They each make important claims about religion, and together they disclose the young Martensen’s systematic understanding of the epistemological, mystical, and moral-ethical dimensions of human experience as shaped by the representations of Christian faith and life. The analysis reveals an agile thinker, whose creative philosophical and theological ideas are the product of imaginative speculation growing out of passionate religiosity. Some connections will be drawn from these essays to the writings of Søren Kierkegaard.

Human Dignity: Experience and History, Practical Reason and Faith

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hollenbach
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Reason And Faith ◽  
The Church

This chapter argues that human dignity can be grounded in historical experiences of the violation and attainment of dignity, and through arguments based on practical (as opposed to theoretical) reason about how to advance respect for dignity and reduce its violation. It also presents theological warrants for human dignity based on Christian faith, and argues that reflection by practical reason on human experience interacts with these Christian religious beliefs in ways that have led the Catholic community to become an important advocate of human dignity in recent decades. Continued interaction of practical reason, human experience, and faith can enable the Catholic Church to work with other communities on behalf of human dignity in addressing new challenges today, perhaps leading the church to further historical development of its understanding of human dignity and rights in new technological and social contexts.

Sideways into Truth

2010 ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Erin Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
Ernest Becker ◽  
Interactive Medium

We often discuss the interactive medium as being possibly the ultimate in “meta” studies, touching virtually every discipline, and yet we rarely discuss it in serious terms of that other most comprehensive of humanities: philosophy. Correspondingly, philosophy and the traditional humanities have historically distanced themselves from games, relegating them to some curious and inconsequential sub-study of cultural anthropology if they are studied at all. Yet it is the very human foundational compulsion to contemplate death—as will be shown through the works of philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Ernest Becker—that drives much of the violent content that makes the video game medium a lightning rod for cultural scrutiny and controversy. The chapter explores two video games—the controversial Super Columbine Massacre RPG!—through the lens of existential death-anxiety to show how video games represent contemplation of fundamental ethical concerns in the human experience.

In the End, Love

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-213
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Intercessory Prayer ◽  
Modern View ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
The Relationship

Christian faith in love characteristically believes that love is not conquered by death. Yet modern philosophy (e.g. Heidegger) proposes death as a limit to human existence. Noting the proximity of love and death in human experience, the chapter explores how the idea of an afterlife has been replaced by that of an eternal now in modern thought, as in Hegel and Schleiermacher, but also in modern atheism. The challenge of developing an authentically modern view is sharpened by a discussion of the relationship between death and love in Heidegger. This leads back to further reflection on human solidarity, with reference to the doctrine of the community of saints and intercessory prayer. Under the conditions of historical existence this remains a messianic possibility that can best be spoken of in the mode of the poetic, bringing about hope in a return to ontological rootedness.

Is the Postmodernist Always a Postfoundationalist?

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Realism ◽  
Weak Form ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Metaphorical Language ◽  
The World

“In critical realism, the epistemic purpose of metaphorical language is not to transcend the world of human experience but indeed to set limits to the range and scope of our theological and scientific language. Such limits establish a domain for human knowledge. A weak form of critical realism—also one that would take the realist assumptions of the Christian faith seriously—claims that one's subjective encounter of the world is of the same order as one's recreation of the world in language.”

Climacus and Kierkegaard on the Outward Relationship with God

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew B. Torrance
Keyword(s):  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Individual

AbstractOvershadowed by a superficial reading of his pseudonym, Johannes Climacus’ statement “subjectivity is truth,” Søren Kierkegaard has come to be perceived in the theological world as overly individualistic and anthropocentric in his thinking. This has contributed to the perception that, for Kierkegaard, it is the individual Christian who is in charge of her Christian faith. In this essay, I endeavor to challenge this perception through an analysis of Climacus and Kierkegaard’s emphasis on the outward nature of the God-relationship

scholarly journals Engaging Klaus Nürnberger’s interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rian Venter
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Trinity

This article discusses the interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity by K. Nürnberger from the perspective of an appreciation of his intellectual and theological accomplishment, especially as expressed in the publication of his systematic theology in 2016. Nürnberger’s distinct understanding of the Trinity is mapped with reference to five perspectives: the structural place in the overall treatment of the Christian faith, an estimation of Patristic theology, the relative importance of the doctrine, the category for interpretation and, finally, the ‘point’ of the Trinitarian confession. To establish some form of evaluative frame of reference, the so-called Trinitarian Renaissance is briefly described. The article concludes with a preliminary evaluation, expressing concern about Nürnberger’s negative view of the Patristic interpretation, the shift from a focus on God’s nature and identity to human experience, a modernist conception about intelligibility and the dismissal of mystery and a general truncation of the heuristic potential of the doctrine.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article is an intra-disciplinary study. It addresses the view of a fellow systematic theological scholar (K Nürnberger). At stake is the impact of different research paradigms within the same discipline. In this case, the engagement is between the paradigms of realist-experiential versus critical-metaphysical. Different results emerge from this.

Music and Divine Revelation

2021 ◽  
pp. 603-621
Author(s):  
Jeremy Begbie
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Social

Music has been perennially associated with divine revelation. This chapter asks why this might be the case, with special reference to the self-revelation of God in the Christian faith. It begins by outlining the theology of music offered by Augustine in his De musica, in which the numerical character of the cosmos, to which sounding music is attuned, is said to give access to God. This is set alongside Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), for whom music more than any other art shares in and awakens that dimension of human experience he regards as distinctively religious. Critical questions are asked of both theologians, in the light of which some four fundamental yet oft-neglected themes and trajectories of classical Christian theology are explored with respect to music’s revelatory potential: the priority of God’s revealing action, the social and embodied character of revelation, creation’s revelation of the divine, and revelation through language.

scholarly journals Salib Yesus – Penderitaan Maria Devosi Maria dalam Ibadat Jalan Salib Versi Solor-Lamaholot

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Paul Budi Kleden
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Popular Religiosity ◽  
The Way ◽  
Local Cultures

Devotion to Mary is one of the most popular religious practices among Catholics, and can be considered one of the oldest forms of popular religiosity. Marian devotions emerged spontaneously as a mixture of elements from local cultures and the Christian faith. However, such practices can become problematic when they overstress certain aspects of human experience together with the role of Mary. This article discusses a text of "The Way of the Cross" which was composed in a dialect of the Lamaholot language as used on the isle of Solor, East Flores. Kata-kata kunci: devosi, jalan salib, penderitaan, ratapan, harapan

Review of Death, society, and human experience.

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 957-958
Author(s):  
FRANCES M. CARP
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience
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