Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

discussions binds the as-qualification primarily with the recognizee (B), the role of the recognizer (A) remains in the shadow. ...

immediate encounter with the truth. As a result, the person becomes a loyal subject of this authority or truth. The medieval and ...

4.2.5. Integrating Principle While recognition is not among the most frequent concepts of West- ern Christianity, it has a long ...

receives a new identity from the sovereign other in the event of conversion. For Augustine, to recognize Christ means that the r ...

In theological research, scholars have often observed the relational character of late medieval and early modern religious think ...

(Spalding) and have the feeling of absolute dependence that gives the opportunity of religious recognition to the self-conscious ...

Schleiermacher, the supreme ruler is the object rather than the subject of religious recognition. Another aspect of this new emp ...

of its knowledge. By means of attachment and status attribution, consciousness can grasp reality in distinctive ways. When Hegel ...

Rainer Forst discusses the position of Nietzsche, according to whom the modern concept of toleration represents selflessness and ...

In both, a relatively stable subject invests objects with new statuses while also being aware of a plurality of lifestyles. Two ...

promise, he regards this as very similar to gift exchange.^23 As I will argue in more detail in section 4.3, a more differentiat ...

As Hoffmann wants to preserve the relationality of the‘gift of recognition’rather than downplay it, our differences may not be c ...

Lutheran–Roman Catholic discussion adds a classical element to the concept of recognition. Some texts of the Second Vatican Coun ...

4.3. Gift and Language At various stages of the present study, we have employed the expressions‘social interaction’and‘gift exch ...

point, we need not discuss thefinal relationship between language and reality, that is, whether language adopts practices of soc ...

uses. More importantly, Newman argues that‘give’belongs to the so- called basic verbs that are fairly similar in most languages ...

reaction. Sometimes the thing has a primary relevance as the object, but in other cases the recipient is considered to be the pr ...

giving are beneficial, the recipient is very often‘upgraded’through the act of giving.^40 In this manner, one can give and recei ...

With regard to ditransitive constructions, the phenomenon of reflexivity is particularly complex and fascinating. The following ...

identification of the thing and the giver, the thing being the antecedent (2) identification of the recipient and the thing, th ...