This is the first English translation, by Thomas Allan
Smith, of Philosophy of the Name
( Filosofiia imeni
). Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944) wrote the book in
response to a theological controversy that ...erupted in Russia just
before the outbreak of World War I. Bulgakov develops a philosophy
of language that aims to justify the truthfulness of the statement
"the Name of God is God himself," a claim provoking debate on the
meaning of names, and the Name of God in particular. Philosophy
of the Name investigates the nature of words and human
language, considers grammar and parts of speech, and concludes with
an exposition on the Name of God.
Name-glorifying, a spiritual movement connected with the
Orthodox practice of the Jesus Prayer, was initially censured by
the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the controversy
raised profound questions that continue to vex ecclesiastical
authorities and theologians today. The controversy exposed a vital
question concerning the ability of human language to express
experiences of the Divine truthfully and authentically. Bulgakov
examines the idea that humans do not create words, rather, objects
speak their word to human beings, and words are the incarnation of
thought in a sonic body conveying meaning.
Philosophy of the Name offers a philosophy of language
for contemporary theologians of all confessions who wrestle with
the issue of language and God. It is a persuasive apologia for the
mysterious power of words and an appeal to make use of words
responsibly not only when speaking about God but equally when
communicating with others.
This volume considers Karl Barth’s first major publication, his commentary on the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans in its two editions (1919 and 1922), analyzing both its contents and its ...relevance today. The volume includes essays by specialists of Barth’s thought as well as by prominent contemporary thinkers who, sometimes for the first time, assess Barth’s contribution.
In The Fathers Refounded, Elizabeth A. Clark examines the lives and scholarship of professors Arthur Cushman McGiffert, George LaPiana, and Shirley Jackson Case, who modernized the academic study of ...Christianity in the early twentieth century.
Response to Martin Kavka Elgendy, Rick
Modern theology,
January 2020, 2020-01-00, 20200101, Volume:
36, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Martin Kavka has done a great service for emerging work on negative political theology, not only by rendering an important set of figures – Taubes, but also Benjamin and Jones – partially ...intelligible on its terms, but also by so clearly invoking and arranging some of the themes that this approach will have to coordinate in order to avoid becoming, as Kavka notes, mere negation, of Schmitt or others. This response seeks to appreciate Kavka’s contribution and use it as an occasion to surface some of the concepts required for a compelling negative political theology. We might stipulate, though this is also the question before all the contributions to this special issue, that the engine of negative political theology is, in the broadest terms, transcendence or difference: between God and the world, and therefore between God’s justice and any instance of human justice. Though this transcendence may avoid the bad infinity feared by Hegel by including within itself at the least the possibility of immanent intimacy, it is basically characterized by an impulse toward claims of non-identity that seeks to create space that can be filled, variously, by affirmation and critique. Such non-identity is crucial as a technique of political self-examination, especially when applied to de-naturalize and situate – though not to quiet – the political aspirations we hold most dear. By implication, I take it that at least some of the authors in this special issue worry that a “positive political theology,” one marked by affirmations without a hint of the silence that comes from transcendence, enlists attractive political norms that will quickly become idols. Insofar as political theologies are positive in this way, the road they travel leads to theocracy; their failure is a mercy, in an ironic disservice to the goods they represent.
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The seventeen studies in Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explore the biblical origins of the golden calf story and its reception--whether explicit or implicit, ...negative or positive, or clearly and consciously avoided--in early Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literature.
Paul Tillichs Systematische Theologie (1951-1963) gehört zu den wichtigsten und einflussreichsten theologischen Werken des 20. Jahrhunderts. In ihr fasst er den Ertrag seines ...theologisch-philosophischen Denkens von vier Jahrzehnten zusammen. Obwohl Tillich sein Hauptwerk in den USA geschrieben hat, liegen die Anfänge seines systematisch-theologischen Denkens in seiner deutschen Zeit. Bereits 1913 konzipierte er einen Entwurf einer Systematischen Theologie, und 1925 begann er in Marburg eine Dogmatik-Vorlesung, die 1926 in Dresden fortgesetzt wurde. Der komplexe Entstehungszusammenhang, die problem- und debattengeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen, die sich in der Systematischen Theologie niederschlagen, stellen an den Leser hohe Anforderungen. Diese zusammen mit dem Text von Tillichs Hauptwerk zu erschließen, ist die Zielsetzung dieses Buches. Es bietet einen werk- und problemgeschichtlich angelegten Kommentar zur Systematischen Theologie.
Das Schleiermacher-Archiv ist primär ein begleitendes Publikationsorgan für die seit 1980 erscheinende Gesamtausgabe der Werke Friedrich Schleiermachers (KGA), welches Materialien und Untersuchungen ...veröffentlicht, die in engerer Beziehung zur KGA stehen. In Sammelbänden werden zudem Beiträge dokumentiert, die auf internationalen Schleiermacher-Kongressen vorgetragen worden oder in diesem Zusammenhang entstanden sind.
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