"Auf Penue͏̈ls Hügel" - Atheismus, der Gott und ein theologischer Exkurs: zur christlich theologischen Rede von Gott angesichts der Superiorität des Wissens und der Deformation des Glaubens

Penuel, the biblical site of Jacob's encounter with God, has become an allegory for the theological difficulty of putting the revelation in Jesus Christ into language. At the moment atheism suggests that it occupies Penuel more effectively than Christian theology. Atheism is thus a challenge th...

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Main Author: Schelhas, Johannes 1961- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:German
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Published: Echter 2012
In: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
Year: 2012, Volume: 134, Issue: 3, Pages: 302-323
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Atheism / Christianity / God
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NAB Fundamental theology
NBC Doctrine of God
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Summary:Penuel, the biblical site of Jacob's encounter with God, has become an allegory for the theological difficulty of putting the revelation in Jesus Christ into language. At the moment atheism suggests that it occupies Penuel more effectively than Christian theology. Atheism is thus a challenge this study exemplifies with a look at the theses of Christopher Higgins concerning faith as a matter of privacy outside of the sphere of scientific knowledge. Yet Higgins errs in dividing reality into private and scientific spheres, and systematic theology shows this with a discourse on the way of speaking of God in terms of presence and non-presence.
ISSN:0044-2895
Contains:Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie