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How Deification Became Eastern: German Idealism, Liberal Protestantism, and the Modern Misconstruction of the Doctrine
Modern Theology Pub Date : 2021-02-23 , DOI: 10.1111/moth.12700
Mark McInroy 1
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This article develops an original account of the rise of the modern misperception of deification as an exclusively Eastern Christian doctrine antithetical to Western theology. The study argues that the origins of the misconstruction lie in the distorting influence of German Idealism on the seminal treatment of the doctrine advanced by Ferdinand Christian Baur. With Idealist categories shaping his retrieval, Baur inaccurately portrays ancient Christian figures as advocating an automatic, mechanical deification of humanity as a whole that leaves the individual no role to play in his or her salvation. Such a view of deification as a mechanical, “physical” process is the precise basis on which Baur’s student Albrecht Ritschl and those in his school influentially claim it has no place in Western theology. The antecedent condition for deification coming to be characterized as Eastern, then, is it being understood as “physical,” and it is Baur who is ultimately responsible for Ritschl so viewing the doctrine. Baur’s Idealist-inspired retrieval thus raises a mistaken understanding of deification to prominence in the modern period, resulting in misunderstandings of the doctrine that persist down to the present day.

中文翻译:

神化如何成为东方:德国唯心主义、自由新教和现代教义的误解

这篇文章对现代人将神化误解为与西方神学相对立的东方基督教教义的兴起进行了原创性的阐述。该研究认为,这种误解的根源在于德国唯心主义对费迪南德·克里斯蒂安·鲍尔 (Ferdinand Christian Baur) 提出的学说的开创性处理的扭曲影响。由于理想主义的范畴塑造了他的检索,鲍尔不准确地将古代基督教人物描绘成主张对整个人类进行自动的、机械的神化,使个人在他或她的救赎中没有任何作用。将神化视为一种机械的、“物理的”过程的观点正是鲍尔的学生阿尔布雷希特·里奇尔和他学校的学生有影响力地声称它在西方神学中没有地位的确切基础。那么,神化的先决条件被称为东方的特征,那么,它被理解为“物理的”,而鲍尔最终要对如此看待该教义的 Ritschl 负责。因此,鲍尔受唯心主义启发的检索使人们对神化的错误理解在现代突出,导致对教义的误解一直持续到今天。
更新日期:2021-02-23
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