Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

since in expressions like‘recognizing you as a child of God’the downward movement leads towards a sort of equality (family mem- ...

In somewhat Kantian terms, Spalding transforms the traditional upward recognition from being a social condition to being a tran- ...

for instance, Luther and Bultmann, may not be overly dramatic, as both theologians underline the primary relevance of recognizin ...

this picture. The divine attachment‘verifies’human existence, and the attachment moves between God and the believer in a gift-li ...

be argued to distinguish recognition from gift transfer, since gifts are normally given to persons. On the other hand, phrases l ...

that needs further consideration, which I will do in section 4.4 below; only a historical outline is offered here. Augustine (se ...

the word‘recognition’often denotes the unilateral act of recognition, typically an‘upward’act of the servant who recognizes the ...

apply primarily to gift exchange. Rather, the act of the recognizer is concerned with the protection or preservation that the ag ...

Let us call such a bigger theological current of religious recognition a‘paradigm’. We reserve the term‘conception’for the forma ...

approaching religious truths. Conversion transforms the recognizer and changes her understanding of religion. The conversion nar ...

Luther in particular stresses the act of personal appropriation and attachment. For Luther, God justifies the sinful and gives t ...

In this manner, the recognizer starts the process with her act of recognition, which provides cognitive access to its object. Th ...

paradigm, the content of recognition covers both the recognizer and the recognizee. As social interaction, the acts of recogniti ...

background of the phenomenon discussed in Seneca’s work.^1 As Seneca’s treatise focuses on interpersonal gifts and favours and, ...

different from monetary market exchange. As benefits are reciprocal, they resemble economic exchange in some respects; Seneca’s ...

client in terms of Roman social reality. A client provides various services that the patron needs to sustain his position. God d ...

work. Ricoeur proceeds from the French termreconnaissance, assum- ing that this term emerges in the time of Descartes and become ...

that can be organized in terms of the three paradigms introduced above. Instead of evolution or enrichment of the concept, relig ...

is connected with the literal understanding ofagnoscoas an‘upward’ human act. As the divine object of this act is immutable, it ...

of recognition. If we have, for instance, the act‘Finland recognizes Israel as the Jewish state’, this performative assumes that ...