The Conscience and Political Agency in Martin Luther and Hannah Arendt
Martin Luther’s pastoral practice of instructing consciences proves illuminating for thinking through the relationship between the conscience and political action. Specifically, Luther saw a clear and assured conscience as enabling free political action, while political tyranny operates, in part, by...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Political theology
Год: 2020, Том: 21, Выпуск: 8, Страницы: 705-722 |
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Luther, Martin 1483-1546
/ Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975
/ Совесть
/ Политические действия (мотив)
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| Индексация IxTheo: | CG Христианство и политика KAG Реформация KAJ Новейшее время NBE Антропология VA Философия |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Resistance
B Civil Disobedience B Martin Luther B Hannah Arendt B Preaching B Totalitarianism B Conscience |
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| Итог: | Martin Luther’s pastoral practice of instructing consciences proves illuminating for thinking through the relationship between the conscience and political action. Specifically, Luther saw a clear and assured conscience as enabling free political action, while political tyranny operates, in part, by oppressing the conscience. As such, Luther’s understanding of the political efficacy of the clear conscience is remarkably close to Hannah Arendt’s insight in her early work that totalitarian terror aims to make the conscience doubtful and equivocal in order to foreclose the possibility of genuinely new action. However, Arendt’s later writings demonstrate a view of the conscience as subjectivist, and therefore unpolitical. Luther, in contrast, reads the conscience in a more intersubjective manner dependent upon instruction in the Word of God, thus narrowing the gap between politics and the conscience and revealing a practice of pastoral care that is at the same time an empowering of political agency. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1824058 |