When he was young, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling rejected the notion of a personal God. At that time he was convinced that consciousness always had to be understood as being conscious of something. Therefore the idea of a consciousness, which was not shaped by some conditions, was impossible. But in his later years, Schelling emphasised the notion of a personal God. Now he argued, that the absolute is the realisation of free self-determination. Therefore the absolute is a person. This absolute person Schelling calls with the philosophical and theological tradition "father". As an absolute person the father is independent and relational: the father embodies his nature as possibility. He is free to realise his nature. This nature of the father are the son and the spirit. With the creation of the world the son and the spirit are transformed from being moments of the nature of the father to become separate persons, by whom the reality of the father is revealed. Because in this process the father completely sets free his nature for the creation of the world, his nature is revealed as love.

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Personen: Krüger, Malte Dominik

Schlagwörter: Gott Trinität Philosophie Person

Interessenkreis: Theologie