On the occation of the Leipzig Disputation 500 years ago, this paper deals with the genuinely theological relation between dispute and disputation, between disagreement and a culture handling that very disagreement. By way of introduction, three dogmatic doctrines will be consulted to regard disputes as institutions internal to faith (I.). This section is followed by considerations on disputations as language games to deal with this kind of dissensus in a structured and safeguarded way (II.). At the end, I will return to the Leipzig Disputation and its effects on a theological culture of disagreement; to do this, three inter-related claims will be presented: according to them, the event of 1519 could be viewed as a communicative re­volution. The discourse of theology has changed considerably by a sustainable transformation of what was and is meant by a disputatio in the first place (III.).

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2019/4 Zweimonatsschrift (2019)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Sass, Hartmut von

Schlagwörter: Theologie Sprache Kirchengeschichte Streit Reformation Disputation Leipziger Disputation