Spiritual trial - a marginalised classic or a classically marginal note? That remains largely unresolved. And yet something theologically decisive depends upon this very alternative. Were we to renew our efforts to define this classic, would we then be able to understand it better and describe it in more detail?
Spiritual trial - a marginalised classic or a classically marginal note? That remains largely unresolved. And yet something theologically decisive depends upon this very alternative. For spiritual trial denotes an attitude within faith towards faith for which that very faith has become deeply problematic. Accordingly, this highly metaphorical term is intrinsically bound to the concept of faith, while faith is not only thematised concerning its contents, but also its existential aspects. Are people therefore no longer having experiences of this kind and, this being the case, has 'spiritual trial' been turned into a mere relict? Or does contemporary theology no longer have any use for a notion it once considered indispensable? What do we lose when we leave it in this state of abandonment? And were we to renew our efforts to define this classic, what would we then be able to understand better and describe in more detail?
Table of contents:
Pierre Bühler/Stefan Berg/Andreas Hunziker/Hartmut von Sass: Anfechtung. Einleitende Überlegungen
1) Exegetischer Auftakt
Konrad Schmid: Religions- und Theologiegeschichte der »Anfechtung« im Alten Testament -
Hans Weder: Der Lebensraum des Zweifels
2) Zu einer Theologie der Anfechtung
Christoph Schwöbel: Der denkende Glaube in der Anfechtung. Zur Topographie der Rede von Anfechtung in der christlichen Dogmatik -
Philipp Stoellger: Glaube als Anfechtung? Zur Hermeneutik der Differenz von Anfechtung und Versuchung -
Jens Wolff: Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Anfechtung. Konstellationen nach Luther, Flaubert, Bataille und Foucault -
Michael Moxter: Gewisse Anfechtungen. Barth und Tillich über den Anfang der Theologie -
Eric Hall: Contextualizing Existential Temptation: An Excursus into Law, Faith, and Love
3) Anfechtung, religionsphilosophisch betrachtet
John Caputo: Devilish Hermeneutics, The Temptations of Jesus and Radical Theology -
Stephen Mulhall: Doubt as Faith, Ethics as Temptation: The Trials of Søren Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms -
Heiko Schulz: Umarmungen Gottes. Der Anfechtungsbegriff und seine religionsphilosophische Funktion bei Søren Kierkegaard -
Claudia Welz: Dem Unsichtbaren eine Stimme geben: Gebet, Glaubensanfechtung und (Un)Gehorsam
