Projects / Programmes
Nagrada, kazen in odpuščanje (Slovene)
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.01.00 |
Humanities |
Historiography |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H170 |
Humanities |
Bible |
| H190 |
Humanities |
Non-Christian religions |
Guilt, responsibility, punishment, regret, repentance, leniency, forgiveness, reconciliation
Researchers (5)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
This project of comparative nature provides a fascinating insight into understanding the central themes of rewards, punishment and forgiveness within the Hebrew Bible, Greek literature and in modern interpretation. The emphasis is both on the intrinsic operation of reward and punishment and on the ultimate personalist reason for God’s mercy and forgiveness. The project deals with these central and universal issues for the first time in a comprehensive and compact way. Until now these themes have received far too little attention in scholarly research both in their own right and in their interrelationship. The scope of this project is to investigate them in relation to the foundations of our culture. These and related issues are treated primarily within the Hebrew Bible, using the methods of literary analysis. The centrality of these themes in all religions and all cultures requires, however, a comparative investigation, drawing attention to the problem of terminology, the importance of Greek culture for the European tradition, and the fusion of Greek and Jewish-Christian cultures in our modern philosophical and theological systems. This broad perspective shows that the biblical personalist understanding of divine authority and of human righteousness or guilt provides the personalist key to the search for the reconciliation in a divided world.
