A study of Emanuel Hirsch's theological view of history

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  • エマヌエル・ヒルシュの神学的歴史理解に関する一考察
  • エマヌエル ヒルシュ ノ シンガクテキ レキシ リカイ ニカンスル イチコウサツ
  • エマヌエルヒルシュの神学的歴史理解に関する一考察

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Emanuel Hirsch, a German theologian in the first half of the 20th century, proposed his understanding of history in his Germany's Destiny (1920) not as a "realization of the rule by the idea" but as "revelation and development of a diverse individual life". He stated that the individual's life was in a critical relationship with "the idea". Based on his theological works, including Germany's Destiny, we can understand this proposition as follows. First, through an encounter with God in "conscience", a human can gain a "life of decision", in which he or she can subjectively decide on what is good and what is evil in cooperation with God and other humans. Since a human lives both as a Christian and as a member of a "human-historical community", he or she struggles with their two different ways of judging good and evil and thus creates new ethical concepts in an attempt to mediate between them. This is where the revelation of God, interpreted humanly, came to be, and what Hirsch called "History".

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  • 基督教研究

    基督教研究 82 (1-2), 41-58, 2020-12-21

    基督教研究会

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