オットー・ヘルマン・ペッシュの恩恵 : 義認論における「創造展望」(一)

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As one of the most prominent representatives in the field of theologi-cal study for the doctrine of grace and justification, Otto Hermann Pesch pursues his investigation with specific accent on ecumenical responsibility. His theology is deep-rooted in the Western tradition of the church, and intends to mediate it in the life-condition of the present day. The author, therefore, characterizes one of his main works "Freisein aus Gnade" as the traditional "doctrine of grace" from a modern point of view and also as an up-to-date "theological anthropology" linked with tradition. In Theological anthropology, the newest tractatus in Christian dogmatics, Pesch, a Catholic theologian, works towards a certain approval of the general trend of Protestant theology. That is to say, the word of God reveals human existence as sinful. According to his basic theological interest of trying to face the modern crisis of belief, Pesch points out the unfortunate situation, in which one lives as if God does not exist, in fact eliminating God from everyday life and then, as a result, suffering. But this secret rejection of every relation to the transcendence in the name of desire f or personal autonomy is none other than what Luther called "unbelief". Thus Pesch's theology takes its starting point from an anthropological view of the human being as sinner. On the other hand, such a standpoint meets with considerable criticism from a number of theologians who base themselves on a theology of creation and think that the very positive thought can maintain unity and balance among the realities of Christian belief. They suppose that a negative orientation like the theological anthropology of Pesch which starts from sinfulness of humankind, makes theology narrower, because it reduces the role of theology to the function of human self-understanding. Then task of this article is to investigate how the "creation-grace" approach relates to the sin-centered theological position. Pesch understands grace in a form of a triad of "grace", "freedom" and "belief" which acts on us as a driving dynamism-according to Pesch is "the gentle fascinating power of God's love" which is coming to us constantly and working creatively. Although Pesch doesn't take any creationcentered position for his study, he tries however to re-animate the somewhat old-fashioned concepts like "grace" or "belief" through a new understanding of God's love, i. e. through a creation-perspective. This article is the first half of a summary of the dissertation : "Die Schopfunfsperspektive in der Gnaden- and Rechtfertigungslehre bei Otto Hermann Pesch", which was accepted for doctorate by the Faculty of Theology of die Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main, in 2001. The whole text in German is available.
2002-08-01

オットー・ヘルマン・ペッシュの恩恵 : 義認論における「創造展望」(一)

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