Thinking Through the Cross: On Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation and Its Contributions to Philosophy
Martin Luther has given little explicit influence on philosophy, and in 1950 Jaroslav Pelikan called for further work into investigating a ‘Lutheran philosophy.’ The beginning of this work lies in Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation, in which he attacks the method of scholasticism and counters with the...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2019]
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Philosophy & theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 31, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 21-37 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Heidelberger Disputation
/ Philosophy
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RelBib Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church VA Philosophy |
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Summary: | Martin Luther has given little explicit influence on philosophy, and in 1950 Jaroslav Pelikan called for further work into investigating a ‘Lutheran philosophy.’ The beginning of this work lies in Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation, in which he attacks the method of scholasticism and counters with the method of truly Christian theology, a theologia crucis. Such counter, this article argues, entails a shift in Christian philosophizing, a shift that sharply distinguishes between God and man and yet, through this distinction, as Luther asserts, allows one to “call the thing what it actually is”—and thus leads to a truly Christian philosophy. |
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ISSN: | 2153-828X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/philtheol2020620129 |