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AutoreMoingt Joseph
TitoloErnest Troeltsch: science des religions ou th?ologie?
RivistaRecherches de Science Religieuse
Annata88
Fasc.2
Anno2000
Pagine185-197
Campo TematicoInterreligiositą
Parole Chiave
Abstract On the basis of the theological works published by Ernst Troeltsch between 1900 and 1913, brought together in volume III of his Works (1996), we would like to show how his thinking on theology during this period became more precise. In order to integrate it into scientific culture, he uses a method and background in the history of religion in general, and more particularly the exploration of normative knowl?edge that comes out of the finality of this history. The specific task of Christian theology is to situate the preaching of Jesus and that of the Church in the universal history of religion and to provide for the spiritual needs of the community. In this perspective he traces a program of ?dogmatics ? inspired by Schleiermacher. Today?s interest in the thought of Troeltsch is to point out the historical conditions of a Christianity that ought to defer to theology. Nevertheless, neither his epistemol?ogy nor his theological conception of history are capable of laying the ground for a theological method today. Too preoccupied about the use of the religious Idea, he does not allow for reflection on revelation of the Absolute in the contingency of the event and the flesh of Christ. But his concern about the divorce between Christian thought and modern occidental culture encourages us to trace the paths of a ?free Chris?tianity ? to which he aspires.
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