Hermeneutik der Transzendenz (Paperback)

English summary: Transcendence is a controversial concept. Are there any genuinely religious forms of transcendence at all besides ontological, epistemological, ethical or alterological forms of transcendence? If so, what is their relation to those other forms of transcendence? Is it true that a cultural shift has taken place from a 'vertical' to a 'horizontal' understanding of transcendence? And if human religious self-transcendence is indeed more than a mere immanent experience, how can we understand this? Is absolute transcendence only possible if it breaks into immanence by itself, and is that possible without also modifying human forms of self-transcendence in specific ways? The authors of this volume shed light on these and other questions.



German description: An der Frage nach der Transzendenz scheiden sich die Geister. Gibt es neben den ontologischen, erkenntnistheoretischen, ethischen oder alterologischen Formen von Transzendenz |berhaupt genuin religiöse Formen der Transzendenz? Und wenn ja, in welcher Beziehung stehen sie zu jenen anderen Gestalten der Transzendenz? Stimmt es, dass eine Verschiebung von einem 'vertikalen' zu einem 'horizontalen' Verständnis von Transzendenz stattgefunden hat? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beleuchten und untersuchen diese und andere Fragen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Mit Beiträgen von: Hans-Christoph Askani, Stefan Berg, Pierre B|hler, Johannes Corrodi-Katzenstein, Ingolf U. Dalferth, Jean Greisch, Arne Gron, Andreas Hunziker, Dietrich Korsch, Wolf Krötke, Anselm K. Min, Simon Peng-Keller

Ingolf U. Dalferth (DrTheol, University of TUbingen) is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He is also professor emeritus in the faculty of theology at the University of Zurich, where he served as director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion for many years. He has held academic positions at the universities of Durham, TUbingen, Frankfurt, Fribourg, and Copenhagen. Dalferth is the author or editor of over forty books, including "Crucified and Resurrected", "Die Wirklichkeit des MOglichen" "Hermeneutische Religionsphilosophie", and "Becoming Present: An Inquiry into the Christian Sense of the Presence of God".