In Praise of Mortality. Christianity as a New Humanism

Autor(en)

Kurt Appel

Abstrakt

This volume shows that the vulnerability and mortality of life are the starting points of its transcendence which exceeds all representability.
Only by renouncing fantasies of omnipotence of a theological, philosophical and scientific nature, human beings can advance to their destiny and introduce a New Humanism enabling a bond between all that is alive and between human beings and their transcendent dimension. This includes an understanding of time that no longer follows chronological-mechanistic constraints, a non-instrumental understanding of language that finds its dimension of depth in prayer and an understanding of God in which God is inseparably related to the openness of human existence. In traversing the arising avenues of thought, the four-part volume, written by three authors but to be read as a unity, is oriented towards a philosophy of central biblical passages, Hegel‘s The Phenomenology of Spirit, Musil‘s Man Without Qualities, Hölderlin‘s poetry and Lacan´s psychoanalysis.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Systematische Theologie und Ethik, Forschungszentrum Religion and Transformation

Anzahl der Seiten

178

DOI

https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657791248

Publikationsdatum

2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603206 Fundamentaltheologie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/in-praise-of-mortality-christianity-as-a-new-humanism(63c7da6e-7e75-4b90-b490-a045bd34e42b).html