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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Casewell, Deborah

Titel

Nothingness and the Left Hand of God: Evil, Anfechtung, and the Hidden God in Luther, Barth, and Jüngel

Ist Teil von

• Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 2022-05, Vol.64 (1), p.24-49

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The hiddenness of God in relation to reflects, in Luther, a particular theological anthropology: one based on the limits of humanity and the futility of human action; and one that ascribes a certain role to suffering. One aspect of this account of the hiddenness of God is a figure whose terror remains unmitigated even by the light of salvation. In their discussions of the hiddenness of God, Karl Barth and Eberhard Jüngel reject this particular hiddenness of God. However, their theologies draw on the , and in doing so, they examine and analyse the despair and anxiety that characterise it in their own discussions of evil as nothingness. These accounts of nothingness engage with philosophical accounts of nothingness as being that which prompts self-assertion and actualisation as authentic existence. However, this use of the opens their theologies up to the figure that they rejected in their prior accounts of hiddenness: the hidden, alien, and terrifying God.