By Konrad Raiser
This ebook provides a suite of texts by way of the German physicist and thinker Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007) in English, to be used in seminars at the philosophy of faith, the comparative research of faith, yet besides at the dating among faith and the medical worldview. so much texts look in English for the 1st time. Weizsäcker grew to become recognized via his works in physics, as a rule within the early improvement of nuclear physics. Later he may additionally develop into renowned as a thinker and analyst of latest tradition. He additionally labored very intensely on initiatives for the prevention of nuclear battle and for peace in general.
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Flesh means man, living in this world. If I wanted to interpret the verse precisely I should have to speak of the Gnostic meaning of the two concepts word and flesh; there they are opposites exaggerating Plato’s distinction of reason and matter into a strict dualism, and the paradox of the verse becomes even more stringent then. But even without such an interpretation, staying within the Jewish religion, we can see that the verse identifies God’s creative power with a creature that has lived once in history.
He wrote many books about questions which in his view admitted of a certain answer or which were important for leading a life worthy of human beings: on the theory of the forms, on ethics, on political order. A cosmogony he wrote just once in his life-time and he called it no more than a likely story; he had to show that at least he was able to do better in this field, explaining the world by reason, than the Atomists had done explaining it by blind chance. But now the theological setting of this myth came to be considered as some premonition of the truth revealed in the holy scriptures of the Christians, while the science to which his epistemology refers was no longer understood, and his model of a city-state governed by philosophers was—as a citystate—as far from political reality of the times, as it was—being of this world— from the eschatological hopes.
Again and again Christians thought the last judgment to be close at hand. It never arrived, but history was steadily and incessantly transformed by those who waited for nothing but for its end. As the first step of this transformation we may consider how the shattered hopes of the disciples, who had expected that Jesus would bring the judgment in his lifetime, were revived in a changed way by the report of his resurrection and by the profusion of the Holy Ghost seven weeks later. Whatever may have happened then, what they had wrongly expected to come immediately and from outside, they now knew as an overwhelming reality within themselves.