Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

in Luther, who emphasizes thepro meandad medimensions of faith. Calvin takes this over from Luther and develops it into an epist ...

and Calvin, we have thefirst steps in that semantic option in which the inferior partner not only gives or shows recognition but ...

3. The Modern Era 3.1. From Hobbes to Pietism The vernacular translations of Calvin’s Institutio show how the terminology ofagno ...

and Locke in brackets, bearing in mind that the Latin text of Hobbes is a revision published in 1668. In the case of Locke, Lati ...

Some more plausibility for the reading of Hoekstra can be given through an analysis of another passage in which Hobbes says that ...

‘to beleeve what is said, signifieth only an opinion of the truth of the saying’.^9 To‘believe in’is a special phrase used only ...

Another remarkable text that employs‘acknowledgement’ in a similar manner is John Locke’sLetter Concerning Toleration. For Locke ...

represented in an autonomous act of faith that‘takes in’different items. Locke thinks that even among those who only acknowledge ...

the general trend is clearly that acknowledgement is an opinion that manifests personal autonomy and the changing nature of volu ...

erkennen(to know), andbekennen(to confess) are the verbs to express epistemic attachment. As the German translation of Calvin’s ...

ideas with one typical representative of Pietism, namely, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. For König, the order of salvation cons ...

The aspect of trust is thought of by König in terms of strong personal appropriation. Trust is‘reception or apprehension of the ...

approaches. At the same time, König’sdefinition has some interesting parallels to Hobbes and Locke. Like his British contemporar ...

The Pietist movement of the late seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies emphasizes the primacy of personal faith, criticizing Pr ...

even devils believe that there is a God. Instead of such believing, we must‘learn to know properly’(recht kennen lernen) the nam ...

yours, and you gave them to me.’^45 Thus he creates the perspective of dialogical personal appropriation between God and humans. ...

then I could not do anything, having a lord and master.’Zinzendorf considers that if everybody were the servant of Christ, then ...

the reversal of the roles of lord and servant, the ideas of labour and struggle as the contexts of appropriation, and the idea o ...

the overall dynamics of knowing, his somewhat accidental use of Rekognitioncannot be taken as evidence that epistemic identifica ...

The consciousness of individuality presupposes that a person appears so (anmutet) that others recognize this person as a rationa ...