Theology

Philipp Stoellger

Passivität aus Passion

Zur Problemgeschichte einer 'categoria non grata'

[Passivity by Passion. The History of the Problem of a categoria non grata.]

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Philipp Stoellger looks into the origins of theology by passion. What is the point of talking about passivity when theology originated as an interpretation of passion?
Philipp Stoellger looks into the origins of theology by passion. What is the point of talking about passivity when theology originated as an interpretation of passion? Passivity (Greek: pathos), a category which is fundamental not only to theology, can be seen as a third element in the relationship between ethos and logos. In a turnabout from the history of the disappearance of this unloved category, the concept of pathos is drawn into the engrossing relationship between ethos and pathos, based on Aristotle, in a study of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, German mysticism and the Lutheran theology of the Reformation as well as in a dialogue with the phenomenology of Husserl and Waldenfels, among others. In a »passive reduction,« Philipp Stoellger traces ethos and logos hermeneutically back to the pathos which preceded them. The »vita passiva« is shown to be a life of »creative passivity,« a passivity by passion.
Authors/Editors

Philipp Stoellger ist Professor für Systematische Theologie/Dogmatik und Religionsphilosophie an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg und Leiter der Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft in Heidelberg.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 136 (2011), S. 690–691 (Malte Dominik Krüger)
In: PV-aktuell (Nachrichten des Pfarrvereins Westf.) — 2010, Nr. 2, S. 12 (Karl-F. Wiggermann)
In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte — 40 (2011), S. 27–28 (Literaturbericht) (Sparn)
In: Freiburger Zeitschr.f.Phil.u.Theol. — 58 (2011), S. 599–601 (Simon Peng-Keller)
In: Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft — 53 (2011), S. 313–318 (Cyprian Krause)
In: Philosophische Rundschau — 58 (2011), S. 311–318 (Christian Lotz)
In: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger — 66 (2013), S. 303–315 (Burkard Liebsch)