Open AccessKærlighedens dialektiker: Karakteristik af Hans Dencks kritiske spiritualisme
Author(s) -
Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
dansk teologisk tidsskrift
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1902-3898
pISSN - 0105-3191
DOI - 10.7146/dtt.v77i3.105719
Subject(s) - spiritualism , humanism , opposition (politics) , philosophy , religious studies , german , psychoanalysis , theology , psychology , political science , law , medicine , linguistics , alternative medicine , pathology , politics
Hans Denck (1500-1527) is known as one of the primary charactersin the South German Anabaptist movement. Denck has beencharacterized as a humanist with a high view of the personal freedomof human beings. Based on an analysis of Dencks concept of the difference,or even opposition, between God and human beings, his ideaof yieldedness (gelassenheit), spiritualism and conception of the humanwill, this article argues that Dencks position should be characterized ascritical spiritualism rather than humanism, in so far as the spiritual crisisinflicted on human beings