Recognition is determined by a deep ambiguity, namely the unconditional quest for it on the one hand and the difficulty of its realisation on the other. With its concept of mercy, theology offers a possible religious description that dissolves this tension. Following the example of the experience of happiness as a modern form of the experience of mercy that is accessible to the modern experience of life, it is demonstrated that from a religious perspective the defining structure of recognition runs vertically. Recognition precedes all human possibilities, and it is the fundamental core of a theological understanding of recognition that one needs to recognize one's own being recognized. Simultaneously this notion of recognition offers the possibility to liberate recognition and (other) social forms of acceptance from the chains of a merely moral imperative.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2016/6 Zweimonatsschrift (2016)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Lauster, Jörg

Schlagwörter: Anerkennung Systematische Theologie Gnade Glück