Bonhoeffer's Lutheran assertions: Cataphasis as teaching responsibility to the other'
Structural similarities have been noted between Dietrich Bonhoeffer's account of ethical responsibility and more recent accounts advocated by philosophers who emphasise responsibility to alterity. Yet, there remains one stubborn difference between Bonhoeffer and these philosophers: his unequivo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 390-408 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Luther, Martin 1483-1546
/ Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 1906-1945
/ Theology
/ Theological ethics
/ Language
/ Assertion (Linguistics)
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| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Language B Dietrich Bonhoeffer B Martin Luther B Difference B Responsibility |
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| Summary: | Structural similarities have been noted between Dietrich Bonhoeffer's account of ethical responsibility and more recent accounts advocated by philosophers who emphasise responsibility to alterity. Yet, there remains one stubborn difference between Bonhoeffer and these philosophers: his unequivocal embrace of strongly cataphatic speech. This raises the following question: it is possible for contemporary Christian ethicists and theologians to enlist Bonhoeffer in the aim of reconceiving an ethic of responsibility to the other' when Bonhoeffer himself relies on such concrete, exclusive language? This article will argue that attention to Martin Luther's defence of theological assertions provides a lens through which the performative force of Bonhoeffer's cataphatic language can be better understood as a particular and traditional use of language that teaches an ethical posture of epistemic humility. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930617000369 |