Heft 4/2018

Augustinus, Stephen Hawking und der Anfang der Zeit

Time, according to Augustine, is a feature of the cosmos. Before God created the cosmos, time did not exist, and since the beginning of creation, a finite time has elapsed. Against the Neoplatonists, Augustine claims that time has finite age. In his popular scientific books, Stephen Hawking explains that time originated a finite time ago. Von Johannes Brachtendorf

Die Normativität des interpersonalen Vertrauens: Axiologische und deontische Aspekte einer impliziten sozialen Praxis

Compared to other academic disciplines ethics seems to have reservations regarding the trust phenomenon. Hence, fundamental questions about its concept are not answered sufficiently: How could the practice of trust – especially concerning its normativity – be understood if it is basically tacit? Von Roman Beck

„Schattenhaft und doch getreu“ (Lumen gentium 8): Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Ekklesiologie und Eschatologie

If eschatology is understood as the doctrine of the end and the consummation of salvation history, it also forms the ecclesiology. Von Burkhard Neumann

Vom unmöglichen zum potenziellen Christentum: Luigi Pareyson und die Philosophie als Hermeneutik religiöser Erfahrung

In the context of the Middle European philosophy of recent decades, deconstruction is not the only form of a philosophical hermeneutics of Christianity. An alternative program was indeed offered by Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991) with his ontology of freedom as a philosophical hermeneutics of religious experience. Von Gianluca De Candia

Unhintergehbare Freiheit: Thomas Pröppers Beitrag zur Ethik und Kritik des Gehorsams

Although institutionalized Christianity has chosen obedience as the epitome of discipleship and fellowship with Jesus, this dominance is not without its theological difficulties – particularly where an ethos of obedience legitimizes dirigist action against freedom and otherness. Against this Pröpper has presented a theological critique of obedience. His discussion of the Christian imperative of obedience serves as an important example of an autonomous ethic that calls for social structures that are informed by “the absolute-is-ought quality of freedom”. Von Mathias Wirth

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