"Alles ist Gnade": theologische Spuren im Menschenbild Theodor Fontanes
The people in Theodor Fontane’s work are suffering, erring, sinful, constrained by conventions, and troubled by fate – in other words: his human beings are authentic human beings. And yet Fontane describes his characters from an at least sympathetic, sometimes even hopeful perspective. Christianly e...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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Theologische Literaturzeitung
Year: 2020, Volume: 145, Issue: 9, Pages: 765-772 |
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Fontane, Theodor 1819-1898
/ Human image
/ Justification (motif)
/ Protestant Church
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDD Protestant Church NBE Anthropology NBM Doctrine of Justification |
| Summary: | The people in Theodor Fontane’s work are suffering, erring, sinful, constrained by conventions, and troubled by fate – in other words: his human beings are authentic human beings. And yet Fontane describes his characters from an at least sympathetic, sometimes even hopeful perspective. Christianly expressed one can formulate that the predominant thought of Christianity, the doctrine of justification, constitutes the background of Fontane’s characters. This article examines on the basis of the novels »Frau Jenny Treibel«, »Effi Briest«, and »Der Stechlin« Fontane’s ideal, with whom he contrasted the Prussian church in his day and according to which the mankind is loved out of divine grace despite all of its numerous and incorrigible flaws and the people themselves are ought to encounter their fellow human beings, bearing in mind their own humanity, kindheartedly and compassionately. |
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| ISSN: | 0040-5671 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theologische Literaturzeitung
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