The self-moved mover: God and Western bio-theo-political paradigm of "autarchy" in Jürgen Moltmann's theology
Jurgen Moltmann is one of the most important theologians in the XXth century who intended to leave aside a rigid and impassible notion of God. However, although Moltmann opens new ways to consider God's life by stressing God's passivity and relationality, the concepts of activity and self-...
| Published in: | International journal of philosophy and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2019]
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| In: |
International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Moltmann, Jürgen 1926-
/ God
/ Trinity
/ Suffering
/ Life
/ Love
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| IxTheo Classification: | KDD Protestant Church NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
Autarchy
B Theology B Moltmann B Deconstruction B impassibility B Love B Life B Metaphysics B Relationality B God |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | Jurgen Moltmann is one of the most important theologians in the XXth century who intended to leave aside a rigid and impassible notion of God. However, although Moltmann opens new ways to consider God's life by stressing God's passivity and relationality, the concepts of activity and self-sufficiency are still structuring the whole theological argument. I intend to show how our understanding of life has been shaped by a bio-theo-political paradigm of autarchy that defines life by the use of the Greek prefix 'autos,' and how this paradigm is still working on Moltmann's theology, who is not able yet to overcome the metaphysical impassible God. I claim that only a radical deconstruction of this paradigm and the construction of a new way of defining life by the use of the Greek prefix 'syn' (with) could enable to think seriously on God's relationality and love. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2335 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2018.1486222 |