عنوان

Nurturing the Indwelling Protest:

شماره

LA126513

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Nurturing the Indwelling Protest:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Max Horkheimer and the Dialectic of Religious Resistance and Betrayal

نام نخستين پديدآور

Roland Boer

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article critiques and assesses Max Horkheimer's lifelong interest in matters of religion and theology. He rehearses a theme throughout his work that strengthens in his later years: an authentic Christianity or Judaism owes its allegiance to and longing for a "totally other" and not any temporal power such as the state. Indeed, in the name of this other - understood in either ontological or temporal terms - Christians would do well to remember the trenchant criticisms of vested power and wealth and Jews would do equally well to remember the basic impulse of not being conformed to this world. In short, such a religious standpoint is one of persistent and incorruptible resistance to the world in every fibre of one's being. The problem is that religions like Judaism and Christianity have betrayed that resistance in the name of the totally other and made deals with the world - with the state, with wealth, with influence and with the economic systems of the day. This betrayal shows up, for example, in the way Christianity has often become an established religion, in the establishment of a Jewish state and in liberal theology. I am not taken with this grand opposition, which trades on the distinction between authentic and inauthentic, the latter functioning as a betrayal of the former. Far more interesting are the moments when Horkheimer sets his dialectical skills to work on this opposition. When this happens, we find him arguing that the "betrayal" was often a necessary process for the survival of the religion in question, for any religion that followed the precepts of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels would soon have been ground into the dust. This article critiques and assesses Max Horkheimer's lifelong interest in matters of religion and theology. He rehearses a theme throughout his work that strengthens in his later years: an authentic Christianity or Judaism owes its allegiance to and longing for a "totally other" and not any temporal power such as the state. Indeed, in the name of this other - understood in either ontological or temporal terms - Christians would do well to remember the trenchant criticisms of vested power and wealth and Jews would do equally well to remember the basic impulse of not being conformed to this world. In short, such a religious standpoint is one of persistent and incorruptible resistance to the world in every fibre of one's being. The problem is that religions like Judaism and Christianity have betrayed that resistance in the name of the totally other and made deals with the world - with the state, with wealth, with influence and with the economic systems of the day. This betrayal shows up, for example, in the way Christianity has often become an established religion, in the establishment of a Jewish state and in liberal theology. I am not taken with this grand opposition, which trades on the distinction between authentic and inauthentic, the latter functioning as a betrayal of the former. Far more interesting are the moments when Horkheimer sets his dialectical skills to work on this opposition. When this happens, we find him arguing that the "betrayal" was often a necessary process for the survival of the religion in question, for any religion that followed the precepts of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels would soon have been ground into the dust.

تاريخ نشر

2011

توصيف ظاهري

380-397

عنوان

Religion and Theology

شماره جلد

18/3-4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1574-3012

اصطلاح موضوعی

Bible

اصطلاح موضوعی

critical theory

اصطلاح موضوعی

dialectic of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Max Horkheimer

اصطلاح موضوعی

theology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Roland Boer

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157430111X614727

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y