Language event
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A language event (German: Sprachereignis) is an act or instance of written or spoken communication. In the 1920s earliest use of the word was found in Journal of Philosophy.[1] In theology this word was used by Ernest Fuchs, a leading New Hermeneutic. Fuchs' doctrine of language helped to inspire a "new quest" for the historical Jesus because it could now be said that Jesus' words and deeds constituted that "language event" in which faith first entered into language, thereby becoming available as an existential possibility within language, the "house of being" (Heidegger).Conversely, the reality of God's love is verbalized in Jesus' words and deeds recorded in the Gospels and is thus preserved as language gain(Sprachgewinn).In the freedom of proclamation God's presence in the gospel as the "Yes of love" happens again-that is, comes to be as language, opening up the future to authentic existence (faith, hope, and love) [2]
Ernst Fuchs
Ernest Fuchs insisted that speeches from the language event is in the Pauline-Lutheran tradition.[3] For Fuchs, word and faith essentially belong together: faith has its essence from its relationship to the word. Faith is the listening to the word that meets it, by which he means the Gospel concretely.[clarification needed] For this reason, Fuchs sees the speech event as the unfolding of faith: it causes the listener to change the situation[clarification needed] from "not-being" to being in the existence of God. This understanding of speech thus represents a fundamental category of his hermeneutics. Fuchs is keen to emphasize the passivity of man. For this he uses the term of silence.[clarification needed] Man does not move in her[clarification needed], but is moved by the speech event.[clarification needed] Language live on the silence.[clarification needed][4] In the language event, the language itself leads to that silence of which it lives. In addition, Fuchs sees his statements of eloquent and significant language parallel to the distinction between being and being[clarification needed] (see also Heidegger).[5] While merely indicative language offers only an expression of beings, a speech event justifies being and allows it to be present. Fuchs applies his doctrine of the linguistic event to various theological disciplines, namely, the preaching of Jesus, the theology of Paul and the Easter event.[6]
Gerhard Ebeling
Gerhard Ebeling continues to use the concept of the language event as a demarcation to dogmatic doctrine. Ebeling understands the sacrament as "language event".
Eberhard Jüngel
Eberhard Jüngel, theologically influenced by Ernest Fuchs, proved to be a proponent of the language event. He took it over in his book "Paul and Jesus" as a demarcation to Rudolf Bultmann.
See also
References
- ^ English Oxford Living Dictionaries
- ^ (1999) Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, A-J, R.N. Soulen, "Ernst Fuchs", by John Hayes, (Abingdon), 422-423
- ^ Eberhard Jüngel, Unterwegs zur Sache (2000), S.24
- ^ Ernst Fuchs, Marburger Hermeneutik (1968), S.242
- ^ Ernst Fuchs, Gesammelte Aufsätze II (1960), S.425
- ^ Ernst Fuchs, Gesammelte Aufsätze I (1959), S, 281