RT Article
T1 On Horizontal Transcendence
JF Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
VO 17
IS 50
SP 46
OP 62
A1 Veress, Károly 1953-
LA English
PB CEEOL
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1580044794
AB Can the turn caused by the Protestant Reformation, which started 500 years ago, be understood in all its complexity without considering its hermeneutical aspects? Does the “actuality” of the Reformation, which addresses our present-day world, not manifest itself primarily as a hermeneutical actuality, or rather the actuality of hermeneutics? These are the questions motivating my investigation on the relationship between the hermeneutical turn of Martin Luther's Reformation and the Schleiermacherian-Gadamerian turn of modern hermeneutics, respectively on the horizontal and the vertical orientation of transcendence, with special attention to the ontological status of the sacred Word and to modernity's experience of finitude in establishing the horizontal transcendence, which will prevail again with the Reformation.In the second part of my essay, I focus on the analysis of three modernization processes -methodological awareness, practical worldly rationality, and technological functionality -, in which the verticalization tendencies opposed to the prevalence of the horizontal transcendence, based on the mutual interconnectedness of finitude and completeness, keep on recurring and attempt to disrupt their togetherness, counteracting the hermeneutical attitude.
K1 Ascesis
K1 Criticism
K1 Finitude
K1 functionality
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 horizontal transcendence
K1 Method
K1 Modernity
K1 Reformation
K1 sacred Word
K1 turn
K1 vertical transcendence