Redeeming Relationship, Relationships that Redeem

Free Sociability and the Completion of Humanity in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher

Matthew Ryan Robinson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 200 Seiten

2018
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-155587-9 (ISBN)

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A renewed focus on the role of interpersonal relationships in the cultivation of religious sensibilities is emerging in the study of religion. Matthew Ryan Robinson addresses this question in his study of Friedrich Schleiermacher's notion of "free sociability". In Schleiermacher's ethics, the human person is formed in and consists of intimate, tightly interconnecting relationships with others. Schleiermacher describes this sociability as a natural tendency prompted by experiences of physical and existential limitation that lead one to look to others to complete one's experience. But this experience of incompleteness and orientation to "the completion of humanity" also constitute the fundamental structure of religion in Schleiermacher's theory of religion as orientation to "the universe and the relationship of humanity to it." Thus, Schleiermacher not only presents sociability as basic to human nature, but also as inherently religious - and, potentially, redemptive. What making such a claim means and the implications it raises are central considerations of this study of Schleiermacher's ethics, theory of religion and ecclesiology.

Born 1982; 2009 MDiv from the University of Chicago Divinity School; 2015 PhD from Northwestern University in Religious Studies; currently Research Assistant in Practical Theology in the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Religion in Philosophy and Theology
Verlagsort	Tübingen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Schlagworte	Anthropology • Ecclesiology • ethics • of • Philosophy • Philosophy of Religion • Practical • Practical Theology • Religion • Religious • Religious Studies • Sociology • Sociology of Religion • Studies • Theology
ISBN-10	3-16-155587-2 / 3161555872
ISBN-13	978-3-16-155587-9 / 9783161555879
Zustand	Neuware