Passivität aus Passion

Zusatztext

Philipp Stoellger looks into the origins of theology by passion. What is the point of talking about passivity when theology originated as an interpretation of passion? Passivity (Greek: pathos), a category which is fundamental not only to theology, can be seen as a third element in the relationship between ethos and logos. In a turnabout from the history of the disappearance of this unloved category, the concept of pathos is drawn into the engrossing relationship between ethos and pathos, based on Aristotle, in a study of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, German mysticism and the Lutheran theology of the Reformation as well as in a dialogue with the phenomenology of Husserl and Waldenfels, among others. In a "passive reduction," Philipp Stoellger traces ethos and logos hermeneutically back to the pathos which preceded them. The "vita passiva" is shown to be a life of "creative passivity," a passivity by passion.

Autorenportrait

Geboren 1967; Studium der Ev. Theologie und Philosophie; 2000 Promotion; 2006 Habilitation; 2007-15 Lehrstuhl für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie an der Universität Rostock; seit 2015 Professor für Systematische Theologie, Dogmatik und Religionsphilosophie an der Universität Heidelberg; Leiter der Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft in Heidelberg.

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