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The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: on the Contingency

On the Contingency and Legitimacy of Doctrine

By: Florian Klug

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The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: on the Contingency

On the Contingency and Legitimacy of Doctrine

By: Florian Klug

Drawing on recent philosophical developments in hermeneutics and poststructuralism, The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God offers a theological account of the contingency of language and perception and of how acknowledging that contingency transforms the perennial theological question of the development of doctrine. Klug applies this account to humanity's encounter with God and its translation into language. Because there exists no neutral epistemological standpoint, Klug integrates contemporary insights on the theory of the subject (especially those of Zizek and Badiou) and presents humanity as a subject that transforms its experience of and with God into language and places it in a shared space for reception. But can the speaking subject have authority and legitimacy in making statements about the Absolute? What role do the Christian faithful play in evaluating that authority? These questions are addressed both to biblical texts and doctrinal statements. Crucial is the Catholic perspective that legitimate statements of faith and insights are only possible through the Holy Spirit. However, humanity cannot command or control the Holy Spirit but can only show its influence indirectly through the receptive tradition of the universal church. The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God argues that statements of faith cannot overcome contingency. Instead, the Catholic notion of receptive tradition attempts to cope rationally with the fragility of perception and language in humanity's orientation toward God.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506473687

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Beyond the Visible Church

The Motif of the ecclesia ab Abel from Augustine to James Alison

By: Florian Klug

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Beyond the Visible Church

The Motif of the ecclesia ab Abel from Augustine to James Alison

By: Florian Klug

In Beyond the Visible Church, theologian Florian Klug investigates the Abel motif hermeneutically throughout Christian church history. By showing how the biblical motif of Abel was read and used by representative theologians like Augustine, Bonaventure, Martin Luther, Yves Congar, and others of each epoch, Klug builds the story of the Church’s self-conception and shows how it has evolved over time. By tracing this theological and ecclesiological history and how the motif formed theologians and the Church over time, Klug shows readers a new way to conceive and understand God’s universal will for salvation. By deconstructing and reconstructing the historical occurrences of these ideas, Klug demonstrates that the Church’s self-conception is not yet complete. This unique and ground-breaking study opens new ways forward for Catholic ecclesiology—hope for today’s universal Church.

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Liturgical Press

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9798400800092

The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: on the Contingency

On the Contingency and Legitimacy of Doctrine

By: Florian Klug

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On the Contingency and Legitimacy of Doctrine

By: Florian Klug

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Crowd Design

From Tools for Empowerment to Platform Capitalism

By: Florian Alexander Schmidt

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Crowd Design

From Tools for Empowerment to Platform Capitalism

By: Florian Alexander Schmidt

Die digitale Revolution ist mit dem Versprechen verknüpft, die Selbstständigkeit des einzelnen Nutzers zu stärken. Der Aufstieg von kommerziellen Plattformen zur Koordination von Crowdarbeit stellt die Gültigkeit dieses Narrativs jedoch in Frage. In Crowd-Design analysiert Florian Alexander Schmidt die Entstehungsgeschichte, Funktionsweise und Rhetorik solcher Plattformen. Der Vergleich von historischen Crowd-Diskursen und Visionen der Online-Kollaboration bildet den Ausgangspunkt für eine kritische Betrachtung aktueller Ausprägungen von Crowdarbeit: Der Fokus der Studie liegt auf der Auslagerung von Designaufgaben unter Verwendung dieser Crowdsourcing-Plattformen. Grundlegenden Mechanismen, welche den Plattformbetreibern zur Motivation und Kontrolle der Crowds dienen, werden offengelegt.

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256

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Birkhäuser

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3035610673

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Ritterliche Taten der Gewalt

Formen und Funktionen physischer Gewalt im Selbstverständnis des deutschen Rittertums im ausgehenden Mittelalter

By: Florian Tobias Dörschel

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Ritterliche Taten der Gewalt

Formen und Funktionen physischer Gewalt im Selbstverständnis des deutschen Rittertums im ausgehenden Mittelalter

By: Florian Tobias Dörschel

Florian Dörschel deals with the martial side of German chivalry towards the end of the Middle Ages. Knightly violence was at the center of social, military and political life as an instrument of power, representation and communication. Florian Dörschel befasst sich mit der kriegerischen Seite des deutschen Rittertums im ausgehenden Mittelalter. Diese ritterliche Gewalt stand als Machtinstrument, Repräsentations- und Kommunikationsmittel im Mittelpunkt des sozialen, militärischen und politischen Lebens.

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BRILL

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900452701X

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9789004527010

Civic Storytelling

The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature

By: Florian Fuchs

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Civic Storytelling

The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature

By: Florian Fuchs

A deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain their rapid ascent to such importance, Florian Fuchs identifies an essential role of literature, a role traditionally performed within classical civic discourse of storytelling, by looking at new or updated forms of this civic practice in modernity. Fuchs's focus in this groundbreaking book is on the fate of topical speech, on what is exchanged between participants in argument or conversation as opposed to rhetorical speech, which emanates from and ensures political authority. He shows how after the decline of the Ars topica in the eighteenth century, various forms of literary speech took up the role of topical speech that Aristotle had originally identified. Thus, his book outlines a genealogy of various literary short forms—from fable, fairy tale, and novella to twenty-first century video storytelling—that attempted on both "high" and "low" levels of culture to exercise again the social function of topical speech. Some of the specific texts analyzed include the novellas of Theodor Storm and the novella-like lettre de cachet, proverbial fictions of Gustave Flaubert and Gottfried Keller, the fairy tale as rediscovered by Vladimir Propp and Walter Benjamin, the epiphanies of James Joyce, and the video narratives of Hito Steyerl.

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169

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Princeton University Press

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1942130759

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Beyond the Visible Church

The Motif of the ecclesia ab Abel from Augustine to James Alison

By: Florian Klug

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The Motif of the ecclesia ab Abel from Augustine to James Alison

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Liturgical Press

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9798400800108

Book's by Florian Klug

The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: on the Contingency

The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: on the Contingency

Beyond the Visible Church

Beyond the Visible Church

The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: on the Contingency

The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: on the Contingency

Crowd Design

Crowd Design

Ritterliche Taten der Gewalt

Ritterliche Taten der Gewalt

Civic Storytelling

Civic Storytelling

Beyond the Visible Church

Beyond the Visible Church

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