Risto Saarinen

Recognition and Religion (eBook, PDF)

A Historical and Systematic Study

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Produktbeschreibung

During the last twenty years, the theory of recognition has become an established field of philosophy and social studies. Variants of this theory often promise applications to the burning political issues of current society, such as the challenges of multiculturalism, group identity, and conflicts between ideologies and religions. The seminal works of this trend employ Hegelian ideas to tackle the problem of modernity. Although some recent studies also investigate the pre-Hegelian roots of recognition, this concept is normally considered to be a product of the secular modernity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recognition and Religion: A Historical and Systematic Study challenges this assumption and claims that important intellectual roots of the concept and conceptions of recognition are found in much earlier religious sources. Risto Saarinen outlines the first intellectual history of religious recognition, stretching from the New Testament to present day. He connects the history of religion with philosophical approaches, arguing that philosophers owe a considerable historical and conceptual debt to the religious processes of recognition. At the same time, religious recognition has a distinctive profile that differs from philosophy in some important respects. Saarinen undertakes a systematic elaboration of the insights provided by the tradition of religious recognition. He proposes that theology and philosophy can make creative use of the long history of religious recognition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192509789
• Artikelnr.: 48795697

Autorenporträt

Risto Saarinen is Professor of Ecumenics and Chair of Ecumenics at the University of Helsinki. Saarinen has published extensively in the fields of medieval and early modern philosophy and theology as well as contemporary ecumenism. He is the author of Weakness of Will in Renaissance and Reformation Thought (OUP, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
1: Introduction
1.1 The Task
1.2 Philosophical Theories of Recognition
1.3 Recognition in Current Theology
1.4 Concepts, Conceptions, and Paradigms
1.5 Parts of Recognition
2: The Latin Traditions
2.1 From the New Testament to the Latin Recognitions
2.2 Augustine on Agnitio and Recognitio
2.3 Attachment, Feudalism, and Bernard of Clairvaux
2.4 Thomas Aquinas and Later Scholastics
2.5 Marsilio Ficino: Loving Recognition
2.6 Martin Luther: Justification and Attachment
2.7 Calvin and Religious Knowledge
3: The Modern Era
3.1 From Hobbes to Pietism
3.2 Anerkennung in Religion: Fichte and Spalding
3.3 Hegel and Schleiermacher
3.4 Cultural Protestantism and Dialectical Theology
3.5 Legal Developments
3.6 Vatican II and the Ecumenical Movement
4: Recognition in Religion: A Systematic Outline
4.1 The Emergence of Historical Paradigms
4.2 The Nature of Religious Recognition
4.3 Gift and Language
4.4 Recognizing Oneself
4.5 Conclusion: Ways and Aims of Recognition
Sources and Literature
Index