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| Word of God: The "Word of God" refers to sacred texts or divine revelations regarded as authoritative by a religious tradition. It signifies the fundamental teachings, commandments, or revelations believed to originate from a deity or hold profound spiritual significance within a faith, shaping beliefs, ethics, and practices. See also Religion, Religious belief, Theology, Christianity, Judaism, Islam._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Word of God - Dictionary of Arguments
I 424 Word of God/Gadamer: When Augustine and scholasticism deal with the problem of verbum in order to obtain the conceptual means for the mystery of the Trinity, it is exclusively this inner word, the word of the heart and its relationship with the intelligentia, that they make the subject of discussion. >Trinity/Gadamer, >Language/Christianity, >Creation Myth/Gadamer. The greater miracle of language is not that the word becomes flesh and comes out in the outer being, but that what comes out and is expressed in utterance is always already word. That the word is with God, and that is from eternity, is the Church's teaching, which is victorious in the defence against subordinationism, and which also lets the problem of language enter completely into the inner being of thought. >Language/Christianity, >Word/Augustine. I 425 Gadamer: What kind of word is that which remains an inner conversation of thought and does not take on a sound form? Does that even exist? Does not all our thinking always follow the trajectories of a certain language, and do we not know too well that one must think in a language if one really wants to speak it? >Language and Thought/Gadamer, >Language and Thought/Ancient Philosophy. Even if we remember the freedom that our reason retains in the face of the language-bound nature of our thinking, be it through the fact that it invents and uses artificial sign languages, be it through the fact that it knows how to translate from one language into the other, a beginning that also presupposes an elevation of the language-bound nature towards the intended meaning, then, nevertheless, every such elevation is itself again (...) a linguistic one. The "language of reason" is not a language in itself. In view of the irrevocability of our linguistic dependence, what is the point of speaking of an "inner word" that is, as it were, spoken in the pure language of reason? Language of Reason/Word of God/Gadamer: What should this "inner word" be? It cannot simply be the Greek logos, the conversation that the soul has with itself. Rather the mere fact that "logos" is represented by both "ratio" and "verbum" is an indication that the phenomena of I 426 language in the scholastic treatment of Greek metaphysics will be more prominent than was the case with the Greeks themselves. >Word of God/Scholastics. I 430 Word of God/Unity/Multiplicity/Gadamer: The difference between the unity of the divine word and the multiplicity of human words does not exhaust the facts. Rather unity and multiplicity have a fundamentally dialectical relationship. The dialectic of this relationship dominates the whole essence of the word. Also I 431 from the divine word, the concept of multiplicity is not entirely remote. The divine word is indeed only one word that came into the world in the form of the Saviour, but if it remains a reality - and this is despite all the rejection of subordination, as we have seen - there is thus an essential relationship between the unity of the divine word and its appearance in the Church. Proclamation/Gadamer: The proclamation of salvation, the content of the Christian message, is itself an event in its own right in sacrament and preaching, and yet it only makes clear what happened in Christ's act of redemption. In this respect, it is a single word, of which, after all, it is repeatedly proclaimed in the sermon. Obviously, in its character as a message there is already the reference to the variety of its proclamation, the meaning of the word cannot be detached from the event of the proclamation. The character of the event belongs rather to the sense itself. Speech Action/Speech Act/Gadamer: It is like a curse, which apparently cannot be removed from the fact that it is spoken by someone and about someone. What can be understood about it is not an abstract logical sense of the statement, but the intertwining that happens within it(1). Proclamation: The same applies to the unity and multiplicity of the word proclaimed by the Church. Christ's death on the cross and resurrection is the content of the proclamation of salvation, which is preached in every sermon. The risen Christ and the Christ preached are one and the same. Modern Protestant theology in particular has developed the eschatological character of faith based on this dialectical relationship. Human Word/Gadamer: Conversely, in the human word the dialectical relation of the multiplicity of words to the unity of the word in its new light is revealed. >Word/Gadamer. 1. Hans Lipp's, "Untersuchungen zu einer hermeneutischen Logik"(1938), and Austin's, "How to do things with words", are excellent examples of this._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-26