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- Title
Christology through the Fires of Feuerbach.
- Authors
Jenson, Bradley C.
- Abstract
Karl Marx was wrong about much. However, in ways he did not anticipate, Marx was, and still is, right about Ludwig Feuerbach. In 1842 Marx wrote, "... there is no other way to truth and freedom than through the 'river of fire.' Feuerbach is the purgatory of the present time." In this passage, Marx alluded to the literal meaning of the Feuerbach name, "river of fire," and, lo and behold, Feuerbach's philosophy has burned its way through the modern and post-modern world, scorching theism in general and Lutheran Christology in particular. Feuerbach's Christology in its first and its latest form (recently adapted by Charles A. Wilson) is an archetype of Enlightenment Christological thought. This method is labeled the "Atheistic-Anthropological Method." How should we deal with this Feuerbachian river of fire? We can just let it burn through our American culture as it has through European culture or we can respond to it. The latter option is far preferable. To do so, this essay will employ two fire-fighting Christological methods: 1) the Church Dogmatic Method of Karl Barth, and, 2) the Law-Gospel Kerygmatic Method of Gerhard Forde.
- Subjects
CHRISTOLOGY; MARX, Karl, 1818-1883; PURGATORY; ENLIGHTENMENT; BARTH, Karl, 1886-1968
- Publication
Lutheran Quarterly, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 3, p293
- ISSN
0024-7499
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lut.2020.0050