Oberhammer’s Hermeneutics and the Variety of Religious Experience: Contemporary State and Philosophical Background

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10.2991/assehr.k.210902.020How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Oberhammer, Hermeneutics, Theology, Neology, Religion, Religious experience, Pluralism, Transcendence

Abstract

Article concerns the hermeneutic conception of Gerhard Oberhammer. The author analyzes the main ideas of Oberhammer. The fundamental philosophical and theological presuppositions of his views are identified and clarified. The conception of Oberhammer is defined as pluralistic. It is shown the positive as well as negative sides of Oberhammer’s conception. The author makes an attempt to come back to origins of pluralistic thinking mode on theology which leads to the Age of Enlightenment and especially to the theological movement of the second half of the 18th century in Germany the representatives of which called themselves as neologists. The main ideas of this movement are analyzed. It is noted in which aspects they influenced the further theology and religion studies the most.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ludmila E. Kryshtop
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/04
TI  - Oberhammer’s Hermeneutics and the Variety of Religious Experience: Contemporary State and Philosophical Background
BT  - Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 117
EP  - 122
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210902.020
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210902.020
ID  - Kryshtop2021
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