The relation between faith and reason has been questioned in the aftermath of Pope Benedict's Regensburg Lecture in fall 2006. The present essay is not another comment on that lecture, but will treat the subject from a lutheran point of view. It first points out, that reason itself is not a neutral instrument of insight, but involved in man's position before God. This is why abstract metaphysical concepts of God fail and do to theology no favor. Nevertheless - as is pointed out as second main aspect - there is something like a natural idea of God, though it doesn't introduce God, the father of Jesus Christ and therefore is erroneous. Its scheme will be outlined in dialogue with the tradition of negative philosophical theology. Both main aspects are being dealt with in dialogue with important texts of Martin Luther, the second aspect then leads to an analysis of recently published ideas by the philosopher Thomas Rentsch.

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Personen: Hailer, Martin

Schlagwörter: Glaube Gottesfrage Protestantismus Vernunft

Interessenkreis: Religionswissenschaft