Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
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description: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie (ZTP) is a double-blind peer-reviewed Catholic academic paper that promotes theological and philosophical research through systematic studies. It quarterly publishes first publication research papers and book reviews of outstanding quality both in German and English. Research papers can be submitted unsolicited via this website. Book reviews should be arranged in advance with the corresponding book review editor. ISSN: 2709-8427 (Print), 2709-8435 (Online)
publisher: Österreichische Provinz der Gesellschaft Jesu
language: en
publication name: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
issn: 2709-8427
items: Sebastián Pinazzo, Freundschaft als freie Zuwendung. Annäherungen an das Denken Peter Hünermanns
items: Maria Hinsenkamp, Visionen eines neuen Christentums. Neuere Entwicklungen pfingstlich-charismatischer Netzwerke
items: Thomas Aquinas – Impulse and Impetus for Evangelical Memory
items: Jan Kerkmann, Der Gott dieser Welt. Die Entstehung und Wirklichkeit des Bösen bei Augustinus und Schelling
items: Burkhard Liebsch (ed.), Grundfragen hermeneutischer Anthropologie. Paul Ricœurs Werk im historischen Kontext. Existenz, Interpretation, Praxis, Geschichte
items: Kevin Vallier, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
items: Franca Spies, Das Materielle in Schöpfung und Inkarnation. Theologische Erkundungen im Gespräch mit Karen Barads Agentiellem Realismus
items: Helmut Hoping / Thomas Marschler / Ursula Schumacher (Eds.), Noch immer „doctor communis“? Thomas von Aquin als Inspiration und Provokation für die Theologie heute
items: Reply
items: Expansive Freedom: The Subversive Potential of the Declaration on Religious Freedom for the Dogma and Law of the Church
items: Maria Rosa Antognazza, Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief
items: Editorial
items: Johann Reikerstorfer, Lernbedürftiger Glaube. Orientierungen in der Moderne und an ihren Grenzen
items: Dieter Hüning / Stefan Klingner / Hans-Peter Nowitzki / Gideon Stiening (Hg.), Gott. Begriff und Kritik der Gottesinstanz in der Philosophie, den Wissenschaften und Künsten des 18. Jahrhunderts
items: Jonas Maria Hoff, Konstruktion von Verbindlichkeit. Radikaler Konstruktivismus und Fundamentaltheologie im Theoriekontakt
items: Cristian F. Mihut, Gracious Forgiveness. A Theological Retrieval
items: Meditation and Self-Awareness
items: Prevenient Actual Grace and Supernatural Finality: Expanding the Nature-Grace Analysis
items: Critical Natural Law Ethics Under Scrutiny. A Response to Stefan Hofmann and Åke Wahlberg
items: Harry J. Gensler SJ, Reasoning About God: An Introduction to Thinking Logically About Religion
items: On Perception and Pure Consciousness. An Invitation to Dialogue with Thomas Metzinger.
items: Benjamin Dahlke / Michael Quisinsky (Hg.), Kirche für andere sein? Transdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Grace Davies Konzept der vicarious religion
items: Gianluca De Candia, Die Dynamik des Wortes. Fortwährende Übersetzung als Prinzip christlicher Überlieferung
items: Rudolf Langthaler / Magnus Striet, Vernunftreligion statt Kirchenglaube? Kants unerledigte Anfragen an die Theologie
items: Agnes Slunitschek, Der Glaubenssinn. Begründung – Beschreibung – Beurteilung – Beziehungen
items: Robert Deinhammer, Kritische Naturrechtsethik
items: Samuel Lebens, Philosophy of Religion. The Bascis
items: Tautology or Heresy? On the Problem of Forming Affirmative Essential-Statements About the One and Simple God in Aquina’s Writings
items: Interpersonal Trust in God in the Context of Eschatological Provisionality
items: Andreas Zingg, Von und mit Israel hoffen lernen. Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardts Eschatologie und ihre Implikationen für Theologie und Kirche

Sebastián Pinazzo, Freundschaft als freie Zuwendung. Annäherungen an das Denken Peter Hünermanns
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creator: Martin Kirschner
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 154
ending page: 157
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4343

Maria Hinsenkamp, Visionen eines neuen Christentums. Neuere Entwicklungen pfingstlich-charismatischer Netzwerke
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Willibald Sandler
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 300
ending page: 303
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4342

Thomas Aquinas – Impulse and Impetus for Evangelical Memory
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description: Otto Hermann Pesch has suggested that the relation between Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther can be aptly captured by the two concepts “sapiential” and “existential”. This article takes a different path, distinguishing the Reformation hermeneutics of difference from the Thomasian hermeneutics of harmony: Reformation theology uses sharp distinctions – Law or Gospel, faith or works, as well as reason or revelation. While these things are not separate, Reformation doctrine puts them into a complex, critical relation to one another. By contrast, Thomas Aquinas seeks to build a harmonious relation between seeming opposites, as evident both from his foundation of theology and his doctrine of justification. While the conflicts of the Reformation period can be well explained in this way, it is noteworthy that Protestant theology, since the Enlightenment, seems to have developed its own hermeneutics of harmony, step by step. Against this background, a new, positive understanding of Aquinas in Protestant theology seems to be possible.
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creator: Volker Leppin
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2021-11-22
publication date: 2021-11-22
starting page: 584
ending page: 601
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v143i4.3832

Jan Kerkmann, Der Gott dieser Welt. Die Entstehung und Wirklichkeit des Bösen bei Augustinus und Schelling
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subject: Book Review Philosophy
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creator: Marius Menke
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 294
ending page: 297
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4335

Burkhard Liebsch (ed.), Grundfragen hermeneutischer Anthropologie. Paul Ricœurs Werk im historischen Kontext. Existenz, Interpretation, Praxis, Geschichte
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Paul Schroffner
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 147
ending page: 151
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4333

Kevin Vallier, All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Stefan Hofmann
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 312
ending page: 315
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4328

Franca Spies, Das Materielle in Schöpfung und Inkarnation. Theologische Erkundungen im Gespräch mit Karen Barads Agentiellem Realismus
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Klaus von Stosch
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 309
ending page: 312
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4327

Helmut Hoping / Thomas Marschler / Ursula Schumacher (Eds.), Noch immer „doctor communis“? Thomas von Aquin als Inspiration und Provokation für die Theologie heute
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Jörg Nies
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 304
ending page: 306
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4326

Reply
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description: In this reply, I address the critical objections raised by Charlotte Gauvry, Stefan Lang, Mona Schramke, Alexander Knoll, Patricia Schöllhorn-Gaar, Sebastian Gäb and Klaus Viertbauer. I aim to provide a deeper understanding of the concept of Minimal phenomenal Experiences (MPE) by taking part in the critical, yet constructive discussion of this approach.
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creator: Thomas Metzinger
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 109
ending page: 142
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4325

Expansive Freedom: The Subversive Potential of the Declaration on Religious Freedom for the Dogma and Law of the Church
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description: This article argues that the Second Vatican Council, under the paradigm of religious freedom, integrated key rational structures of “normative modernity” (Thomas Gutmann) into catholic teaching. By dogmatically affirming religious freedom, the council thus adopted certain normative concepts—subjective rights, personal dignity, and individual autonomy—whose dynamic continues to shape and at times destabilize catholic legal and doctrinal thought. With the shift from the “right of truth” to the “right of the person”, catholic legal reasoning gained autonomy from morality and recognized freedom as a condition of religious truth. Conscience becomes the locus of the personal seeking of truth and moral self-determination. In doing so, Catholicism—whether consciously or unconsciously—anticipates a logic of discursive justification that relativizes ecclesial authority and urges greater freedom and democratic participation.
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creator: Tim Kortendieck
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 260
ending page: 285
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4324

Maria Rosa Antognazza, Thinking with Assent: Renewing a Traditional Account of Knowledge and Belief
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subject: Book Review Philosophy
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creator: Bruno Karl Niederbacher SJ
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 288
ending page: 291
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4322

Editorial
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subject: Editorial
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creator: Stefan Lang
creator: Klaus Viertbauer
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 3
ending page: 6
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4312

Johann Reikerstorfer, Lernbedürftiger Glaube. Orientierungen in der Moderne und an ihren Grenzen
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creator: Kurt Appel
creator: Jakob Deibl
creator: Sofiia-Olga Kungurtseva
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 157
ending page: 160
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4311

Dieter Hüning / Stefan Klingner / Hans-Peter Nowitzki / Gideon Stiening (Hg.), Gott. Begriff und Kritik der Gottesinstanz in der Philosophie, den Wissenschaften und Künsten des 18. Jahrhunderts
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subject: Book Review Philosophy
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creator: Georg Sans SJ
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 576
ending page: 578
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4310

Jonas Maria Hoff, Konstruktion von Verbindlichkeit. Radikaler Konstruktivismus und Fundamentaltheologie im Theoriekontakt
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Winfried Löffler
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 591
ending page: 595
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4309

Cristian F. Mihut, Gracious Forgiveness. A Theological Retrieval
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Ludwig Jaskolla
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 151
ending page: 154
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4308

Meditation and Self-Awareness
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description: In this article, two theses are analysed in a discussion with Thomas Metzinger. These are the ubiquity thesis, which is much discussed in the theory of subjectivity, and the meditation thesis, which forms the basis of Metzinger’s considerations. The ubiquity thesis states that every case of consciousness includes occurrent awareness of an “I”, and the meditation thesis that insights gained through meditation can be taken into account when criticising the ubiquity thesis. The central theses of this essay are: a) Following Metzinger, it is possible to justify a critique of the ubiquity thesis; b) a variant of the meditation thesis restricted to secular and unintentional meditation practice is valid. In this essay, these theses are substantiated, and secular and unintentional meditation is characterised in more detail and differentiated from hallucinations, suggestions, and trance states.
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creator: Stefan Lang
creator: Mona Schramke
creator: Alexander Knoll
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 28
ending page: 51
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4307

Prevenient Actual Grace and Supernatural Finality: Expanding the Nature-Grace Analysis
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description: This article expands the nature-grace analysis offered by recent critics of Henri de Lubac, who argue that human beings receive a supernatural finality from grace rather than from the ontological structure of human nature itself, by demonstrating that prevenient actual grace received prior to justification confers an imperfect supernatural finality to its recipient. Drawing from Thomas Aquinas, the article examines the need for and presence of grace in human beings who are not yet in a state of sanctifying grace. It then explains how one grace leads to another grace as the human journey to beatitude unfolds. Finally, the article shows that prevenient actual graces bring about vital acts that are entitatively supernatural, which, as such, confer an imperfect supernatural finality to their recipient.
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creator: Vincent Strand
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 198
ending page: 217
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4306

Critical Natural Law Ethics Under Scrutiny. A Response to Stefan Hofmann and Åke Wahlberg
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description: Stefan Hofmann has subjected my critical natural law ethics to a critical appraisal. In this article, I respond to his objections and clarify misunderstandings. First, I summarize my approach. Then I turn to Hofmann’s objections and respond to them. The result is that Hoffmann’s attempt at criticism is not particularly successful. Finally, I will also address Åke Wahlberg’s criticism.
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creator: Robert Deinhammer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4305

Harry J. Gensler SJ, Reasoning About God: An Introduction to Thinking Logically About Religion
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subject: Book Review Philosophy
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creator: Winfried Löffler
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 291
ending page: 293
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4304

On Perception and Pure Consciousness. An Invitation to Dialogue with Thomas Metzinger.
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description: Thomas Metzinger identifies a contrast between religion and spirituality to show that spiritual practices such as meditation can lead to experiences of selflessness. In doing so, he offers two arguments: First, he seeks to render his naturalistic self-model theory more plausible by integrating spiritual practice. Second, he presents religion as a carrier of non-naturalistic concepts of the ego and the self and devalues religion as pre-scientific. Metzinger’s distinction is based on the premise that religion must be interpreted as theism and science as naturalism. The present article critically examines this equation of religion with theism and demonstrates, using Friedrich Schleiermacher’s concept of “Anschauung”, that spirituality can also be understood within the framework of religious interpretation.
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creator: Klaus Viertbauer
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 89
ending page: 108
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4303

Benjamin Dahlke / Michael Quisinsky (Hg.), Kirche für andere sein? Transdisziplinäre Beiträge zu Grace Davies Konzept der vicarious religion
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Dirk Ansorge
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 585
ending page: 588
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4302

Gianluca De Candia, Die Dynamik des Wortes. Fortwährende Übersetzung als Prinzip christlicher Überlieferung
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Dirk Ansorge
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 144
ending page: 147
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4301

Rudolf Langthaler / Magnus Striet, Vernunftreligion statt Kirchenglaube? Kants unerledigte Anfragen an die Theologie
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Margit Wasmaier-Sailer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 599
ending page: 602
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4300

Agnes Slunitschek, Der Glaubenssinn. Begründung – Beschreibung – Beurteilung – Beziehungen
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subject: Book Review Theology
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creator: Michael Böhnke
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-03-01
publication date: 2026-03-01
starting page: 161
ending page: 163
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i1.4299

Robert Deinhammer, Kritische Naturrechtsethik
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creator: Åke Wahlberg
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 572
ending page: 575
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4298

Samuel Lebens, Philosophy of Religion. The Bascis
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subject: Book Review Philosophy
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creator: Oliver J. Wiertz
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 579
ending page: 582
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4296

Tautology or Heresy? On the Problem of Forming Affirmative Essential-Statements About the One and Simple God in Aquina’s Writings
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description: One purpose of human language is to express truth by revealing to us something about something in the form of a declarative sentence. Aquinas’s doctrine of divine names represents a decisive attempt to justify human speech about God, especially in its affirmative dimension, against reductive interpretations of apophatic theology. According to Thomas, concepts of pure perfections can be asserted in an analogous way about God himself. In this way, they can make us aware of something about his nature. Against Thomas’s analogy thesis the extent of vagueness of divine names is repeatedly raised. This essay shows that the problem lies especially in explaining in a convincing way their non-synonymity and thus their significance as divine names for us. This reveals a fundamental formal discrepancy in human thought and speech with regard to the one and simple God.
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creator: Stephan Herzberg
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 473
ending page: 500
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4295

Interpersonal Trust in God in the Context of Eschatological Provisionality
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description: “Trusting in God” is a concept that has long been overshadowed by the concept of faith in the history of theology and has not received any further analytical elaboration. In this article, a contemporary understanding of trusting in God is developed, which takes into account both the current insights of philosophical research on trust and is theologically substantiated. When trust is here introduced as a complex interpersonal and transtemporal practice and transferred to the topos of trust in God, certain emphatic ideas of how to trust in God must be rejected at the same time. Rather, trusting in God constitutes a reciprocal relationship in which (among other things) concrete human expectations towards God play a role. This understanding is embedded in Wolfhart Pannenberg’s research program of revelation as history, which adopts an eschatological perspective.
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creator: Roman Beck
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2026-06-01
publication date: 2026-06-01
starting page: 218
ending page: 259
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v148i2.4294

Andreas Zingg, Von und mit Israel hoffen lernen. Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardts Eschatologie und ihre Implikationen für Theologie und Kirche
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creator: Christian Rutishauser
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie
date: 2025-12-08
publication date: 2025-12-08
starting page: 611
ending page: 614
doi: 10.35070/ztp.v147i4.4292