Reformācija Kā Beigas?: Reformation as an End?
The article "Reformation as an End?" aims at highlighting the Reformation as an ambigous event. Usually the consequences of the Reformation are characterised as good ones affecting quite wide areas (with some exceptions when talking, for example, about spirituality of women). This is the r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Latvian |
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LU Akadēmiskais apgāds
2017
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Cel̜š
Year: 2017, Issue: 68, Pages: 111-126 |
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| Summary: | The article "Reformation as an End?" aims at highlighting the Reformation as an ambigous event. Usually the consequences of the Reformation are characterised as good ones affecting quite wide areas (with some exceptions when talking, for example, about spirituality of women). This is the reason why my aim in this article is to ask the question - can the Reformation be also seen as an end? In order to highlight the possible answers to that question, I turned to three great thinkers (or, sometimes called writers, theologians or philosophers): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Novalis (Georg Friedrich Phillip von Hardenberg) and Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. Throughout the article I examine what they said about the Reformation or Christendom of their time. Of course, the aim of the article is not to give a long explanation of thoughts of each philosopher; on the contrary, my aim is to highlight the modern problems which are reflected in their texts. Why did they criticize Lutheran Reformation or Christianity of their time? Each of them put the emphasis on different things, but, if one looks closer at some of their texts it is possible to see problems as still exist nowadays. If only to mention some of them: religiosity through the Reformation was turned into one of the aspects of "man's business", a thing which is created for comfort of mankind. Religiosity has lost its "essence", religion has turned out to be political and a job of a pastor has become only another well-paid occupation. Reflecting on these ideas in the modern context, it turns out that some of them are still very important nowadays, especially, if we talk about "the free market" of variety of religions and natural laziness of a human being which prevents us all from deeper reflection on fundamental questions concerning our religiosity and faith. |
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