Between the Times – and Sometimes Beyond: An Essay in Dialectical Theology and its Critique of Religion and “Religion”

Open Theology

von Sass Hartmut¹ 

[1] Faculty of Theology, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;

关键词: dialectical theology;    barth;    brunner;    bultmann;    tillich;    gogarten;    the concept of religion;   

DOI  :  10.1515/opth-2020-0104

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper gives a systematic account of Dialectical Theology (DT) and its surprisingly ramified usage of the concept of religion on the backdrop of recent debates about the “return of religion.” First, the positional context between Schleiermacher and Barth is sketched. Second, the highly divergent positions of Bultmann, Barth, Brunner as well as Gogarten and Tillich are presented – always in regard to their sometimes programmatic, sometimes rather hidden references to “religion” between its facticity and normativity. Third and by way of conclusion, it is suggested to restrict “religion” as a concept to non-theological disciplines, i.e., to treat “religion” as a strictly empirical and sociological term, whereas theology is concerned with faith that belongs to a very different game than religion, as DT helps to clarify.

【 授权许可】

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