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Ausgabe:

Januar/2022

Spalte:

108–109

Kategorie:

Dogmen- und Theologiegeschichte

Autor/Hrsg.:

Vind, Anna, Damgaard, Iben, Busch Nielsen, Kirsten, and Sven Rune Havsteen [Eds.]

Titel/Untertitel:

In-visibility. Reflections upon Visibil-ity and Transcendence in Theology, Philosophy and the Arts.

Verlag:

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2020. 501 S. m. 52 Abb. u. 3 Tab. = Refo500 Academic Studies, 18. Geb. EUR 130,00. ISBN 9783525550717.

Rezensent:

David Brown

So long as Platonism dominated Christian theology, there was no problem in making a connection to the divine. The human soul as immaterial, immortal and invisible was seen as belonging essent-ially to same realm as the divine. But if, as is now generally believed, all human knowledge is mediated through the empirical and so-cial, even the notion of a transcendent realm becomes inherently problematic. The present collection of essays is the result of an initiative by the Theology Faculty at the University of Copen-hagen which has sought to address the issue indirectly through the related question of how the invisible might be mediated through the visible: not of course the same thing but clearly connected. The results from twenty-five contributors are distributed across six sections. The ...


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