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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. – Dictionary of Arguments. | |||
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Scholasticism on Word of God - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 426 Word of God/Scholasticism/Gadamer: The particular difficulty in making scholastic thinking fruitful for our question ((s) about the specificity of the "inner word" in contrast to normal language) consists in the fact that the Christian understanding of the word, as we find it with the Fathers partly in imitation, partly in transformation of late ancient thoughts, has been brought closer to the concept of the Logos of classical Greek philosophy with the reception of Aristotelian philosophy by higher scholasticism. >Logos/Gadamer. Thus, Thomas Aquinas systematically communicated the Christian doctrine developed from the prologue of John's gospel with Aristotle (1). Significantly, he hardly mentions the multiplicity of languages, which Augustine still discusses (>Word/Augustine), although he switches this off in favour of the "inner word". The doctrine of the "inner word" is for him the self-evident prerequisite under which he examines the connection between forma and verbum. >Word/Thomas. 1. See Comm. in Joh. cap. 1 differentia verbi divini et humani and the difficult and rich "Opusculum De natura verbi intellectus", compiled from genuine texts by Thomas Aquinas, on which we shall rely in the following._____________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. "Vs" indicates differences in content, not necessarily the chronological progression of a controversy. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Scholasticism 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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