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Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie

ISSN: 1612-9520

Edited by: Christoph Schwöbel †

In cooperation with: Svend Andersen, Oswald Bayer, Luco van den Brom, Sarah Coakley, Friedrich Hermanni, Werner Jeanrond, Wing-Kwong Pilgrim Lo, Risto Saarinen, Walter Sparn, William Storrar, Miroslav Volf

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The Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie which is published in four annual issues of 112 pages each, examines the exciting dialogue between Lutheran-Reformed theology and philosophy in the broadest sense, seeks to keep open a breadth of responsible thought in the controversial issue of contemporary theology, and offers a variety of ways to formulate questions. Through its international editorial board, it guarantees an exchange of theological research in German and English. Each issue features a review of periodicals which serve to keep the reader abreast of new research in the field.

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Volume 64 Issue 1

May 2022

Frontmatter

Publicly Available April 20, 2022

Frontmatter

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April 20, 2022

A Non-Anthropocentric Understanding of the Trinitarian Creatorship and Redeemership in an Age of Science

Jongseock (James) Shin

Page range: 1-23

Abstract

There has been an anthropocentric tendency in the doctrines of creation and redemption, especially, within the Western tradition of Christianity. In my view, contemporary theories of evolutionary and developmental biology help theology to understand how God’s creation unfolds. Meanwhile, a Trinitarian framework of creation provides meaning and purpose to the victims in evolutionary history. Furthermore, it contributes to overcoming the anthropocentric tendency in understanding the doctrine of redemption through the lens of the cosmic dimensions of Jesus’ cross and resurrection. Therefore, in this article, I argue that a Trinitarian framework of creatio ex nihilo can provide meaning and purpose to evolutionary history ridden by death, pain, and suffering, while evolutionary and developmental biology provides theology with a detailed explanation of biological evolution as God’s purposeful creation of the diversity of life in different levels of complexity. In the suggested Trinitarian vision of creatio ex nihilo , God creatively , compassionately , and redemptively works through biological evolution in general and particular modes.

April 20, 2022

Nothingness and the Left Hand of God: Evil, Anfechtung, and the Hidden God in Luther, Barth, and Jüngel

Deborah Casewell

Page range: 24-49

Abstract

The hiddenness of God in relation to opus alienum reflects, in Luther, a particular theological anthropology: one based on the limits of humanity and the futility of human action; and one that ascribes a certain role to suffering. One aspect of this account of the hiddenness of God is a figure whose terror remains unmitigated even by the light of salvation. In their discussions of the hiddenness of God, Karl Barth and Eberhard Jüngel reject this particular hiddenness of God. However, their theologies draw on the opus alienum , and in doing so, they examine and analyse the despair and anxiety that characterise it in their own discussions of evil as nothingness. These accounts of nothingness engage with philosophical accounts of nothingness as being that which prompts self-assertion and actualisation as authentic existence. However, this use of the opus alienum opens their theologies up to the figure that they rejected in their prior accounts of hiddenness: the hidden, alien, and terrifying God.

April 20, 2022

Competing with God?

A Response to Kathryn Tanner

P. Roger Turner, Jordan Wessling

Page range: 50-69

Abstract

Christians often presume that immediate and universally extensive divine governance of human behavior is incompatible with human agency and responsibility. Against this presumption, Kathryn Tanner argues for a distinctive metalinguistic paradigm whereby Christians can coherently speak of God’s transcendence in such a way that divine action could never in principle ‘compete’ with human action. Thus, it is said, God can comprehensively will each human action without thereby compromising significant human freedom and corresponding moral responsibility. In this article, it is argued that Tanner’s non-competitivist paradigm fails to circumvent a theological version of the ‘direct argument’ for the incompatibility between human moral responsibility and causal determinism.

April 20, 2022

Gefühls- und Erfahrungstheologie als methodologische Basis der Religionswissenschaft

Vsevolod V. Zolotukhin

Page range: 70-92

Abstract

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag ist dem Thema der Kontinuität zwischen Gefühls- und Erfahrungstheologie in der deutschsprachigen nachkantischen Denktradition auf der einen und der späteren Religionswissenschaft (vor allem vergleichender Religionsgeschichte und Religionspsychologie) auf der anderen Seite gewidmet. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei auf methodischen Veränderungen, die das Studium der Religion so empirisch begründet und „unparteiisch“ wie möglich machen sollen. Die durch Kant präzisierte protestantische Aufmerksamkeit auf die religiöse Erlebensweise stimmte mit den im europäischen Denkraum immer einflussreicheren Wahrheitskriterien der Naturwissenschaften überein. Die Betrachtung der Erfahrung im historischen und gesellschaftlichen Kontext führte zur Religionswissenschaft (Müllers Theorie versuchte die Frage zu beantworten, wie vielfältig sich der Sinn des Unendlichen in den unterschiedlichen Glaubensweisen und Traditionen gesetzmäßig widerspiegeln kann). Die Betrachtung der Erfahrung im Kontext der Entfaltung der individuellen Erlebnisse fand jedoch in der Religionspsychologie ihren Ausdruck (Vorbrodt versuchte den psychologischen und sogar den biologischen Hintergrund der Religiosität detailliert darzustellen, wie auch zu rekonstruieren).

April 20, 2022

Erfassen des Absoluten durch das Gefühl

Ein Vergleich zwischen Fichtes WL (1801/02) und Schleiermachers Reden (1799/1806)

Xiaolong Zhou

Page range: 93-123

Abstract

Zusammenfassung Das Verhältnis zwischen Fichtes WL (1801/02) und Schleiermachers Reden (1799/1806) wurde heftig diskutiert. Dieser Aufsatz hält den Einfluss von Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre auf Schleiermacher für nicht stichhaltig. Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass es verschiedene Modelle der Beziehung zwischen dem Gefühl und dem Absoluten bei Fichte und bei Schleiermacher gibt: Fichte betrachtet das „Gefühl der Abhängigkeit“ vom Absoluten oder vom absoluten Sein als eine Selbstvernichtung der formalen Freiheit, während Schleiermacher zufolge das Individuum mit dem Absoluten im Gefühl vereinigt wird.

April 20, 2022

Philosophical Optimism and Philosophy of Historical Progress in Slovak Lutheran Ethics in the First Half of the 19^th Century

Vasil Gluchman

Page range: 124-138

Abstract

The author studies the form of philosophical optimism in Slovak Lutheran ethics in the first half of the 19 th century in the views of Ján Kollár and Ján Chalupka. Herder’s philosophy of history and his philosophy of historical progress significantly influenced Slovak Lutheran ethics of the given period. In the author’s view, Kollár and Chalupka mainly appreciated human history as progress in all parts of life and refused glorification of the past. However, they did not limit their assessment to a positive evaluation of the present; they used one’s own mistakes and faults to appeal to moral development of man and placed to the forefront the belief in a better future of mankind in the form of humanity.

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Edited by

Christoph Schwöbel †

In Collaboration with

Svend Andersen, Aarhus
Oswald Bayer, Tübingen
Luco van den Brom, Utrecht
Sarah Coakley, Cambridge
Friedrich Hermanni, Tübingen
Werner Jeanrond, Oslo
Wing-Kwong Pilgrim Lo, Hong Kong
Risto Saarinen, Helsinki
Walter Sparn, Erlangen
William Storrar, Princeton, NJ
Miroslav Volf, New Haven, CT

(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 1612-9520
Print ISSN: 0028-3517
Type: Journal
Languages: German, English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1959
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year

Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie

Frontmatter

A Non-Anthropocentric Understanding of the Trinitarian Creatorship and Redeemership in an Age of Science

Abstract

Nothingness and the Left Hand of God: Evil, Anfechtung, and the Hidden God in Luther, Barth, and Jüngel

Abstract

Competing with God?

A Response to Kathryn Tanner

Abstract

Gefühls- und Erfahrungstheologie als methodologische Basis der Religionswissenschaft

Abstract

Erfassen des Absoluten durch das Gefühl

Ein Vergleich zwischen Fichtes WL (1801/02) und Schleiermachers Reden (1799/1806)

Abstract

Philosophical Optimism and Philosophy of Historical Progress in Slovak Lutheran Ethics in the First Half of the 19th Century

Abstract

Philosophical Optimism and Philosophy of Historical Progress in Slovak Lutheran Ethics in the First Half of the 19^th Century