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NVI-rapporteringsår: 2018
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2018

“With God all things are possible” – Luther and Kierkegaard on the relation between immutability, necessity and possibility

Bidragsytere:
  • Knut Alfsvåg

Tidsskrift

Neue Zeitschrift Für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
ISSN 0028-3517
e-ISSN 1612-9520
NVI-nivå 2

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2018
Publisert online: 2018
Trykket: 2018
Volum: 60
Hefte: 1
Sider: 44 - 57

Importkilder

Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85043718948

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Teologi

Emneord

Martin Luther • Søren Kierkegaard • Gud

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Tittel

“With God all things are possible” – Luther and Kierkegaard on the relation between immutability, necessity and possibility

Sammendrag

If God is eternal, he is immutable and his relationship with the world is without change. Luther and Kierkegaard agree that this is the case, but disagree whether the idea of necessity adequately captures God’s relationship with the world. Luther inherits the idea of necessity from the Scholastics, but rejects their distinction between absolute and conditional necessity. We can only trust God’s promises if there from God’s point of view are no contingencies. For Kierkegaard, the idea of necessity is determined by Kant’s understanding of reality as experience limited by what is possible according to the criteria of rationality. Kierkegaard finds this understanding insufficient, as it excludes the possibility of the infinite. In spite of differences of terminology caused by the differing contexts they had to address, there is thus a significant parallel between Luther and Kierkegaard in that they both criticize their contemporaries for having a deficient understanding of divine difference.

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Knut Alfsvåg

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    ved Fakultet for teologi og samfunnsvitenskap ved VID vitenskapelige høgskole
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