Neology
Under Neology (Greek for "new doctrine") refers to the reception of the German Enlightenment by the Protestant theology in the 18th century.
The terms neology and neolog (term for a representative of this direction) were introduced as negative, disparaging foreign terms around the last third of the 18th century.
Important aspects of neology are:
- The doctrine of inspiration of Lutheran orthodoxy is relativized in favor of a historical-critical approach to the Bible.
- The binding nature of church dogmas and creeds is called into question.
- Christianity is primarily emphasized ethically . Its importance is made dependent on its empirical effectiveness for a "better life".
literature
- Karl Aner: The theology of the Lessing time. Halle (Saale) 1929.
- Andreas Urs Sommer : Neological Philosophy of History. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem's reflections on the noblest truths of religion. In: Journal for the recent history of theology. Volume 9, 2002, pp. 169-217.
- Kurt Nowak : Sensible Christianity? On research into the Enlightenment in Protestant theology in Germany since 1945. = Forum Theologische Literaturzeitung, Vol. 2, Leipzig 1999.
- Albrecht Beutel : Church history in the age of the Enlightenment . A compendium (UTB 3180), Göttingen 2009, pp. 112-146, ISBN 978-3-525-03717-1 .
- Christopher Spehr: The Magdeburg Neologentreffen in 1770. In: Christianity in transition. New Studies on Church and Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. by Albrecht Beutel, Volker Leppin and Udo Sträter (Works on the History of Church and Theology, Vol. 19), Leipzig 2006, pp. 87-102.
Web links
Library of Neology (hybrid text-critical edition of ten central texts of neology)
References and comments
- ↑ Albrecht Beutel, Compendium ..., pp. 112–115.