Luther's Radical Conception of Faith: God, Christ, and Personhood in a Post‐Metaphysical Age. (2nd September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hansen, Guillermo
• Is Part Of: Dialog. Volume 52:Number 3(2013:Sep.)
• Page Start: 212
• Page End: 221
• Publication Date: 2013-09-02
• Subjects: Luther -- faith -- Christ -- consciousness -- post‐metaphysics -- love -- neighbor; Theology -- Periodicals; 230.41
• DOI: 10.1111/dial.12046
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0012-2033

Abstract

Abstract: Luther's exposition of Paul's letter to the Galatians offers a premier window into a deconstruction of the tandem God, ego and symbolic order of the law by proposing a radical "technology of the self, " a new understanding of what it means to be a person in light of God's own becoming in the flesh—a new subjective perspective. This places the event of belief as a displacement of a socially and ecclesiastically constructed ego‐consciousness and the emergence of a new (social) center of subjectivity—Christ consciousness, that is, faith. For Luther the "person" emerges as a radical break with the self‐referentiality of the ego and through the perspectival assimilation of God's own subjective experience in the flesh.