Three perspectives on Resurrection: Revelation, Experience, Recognition
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Jan-Olav Henriksen
Summary
The claim about the resurrection of Jesus Christ is marked by relative semiotic indeterminacy. The lack of an experiential reference for this claim means that we have to see it as the result of an abductive interpretation. Against a backdrop founded on a pragmatist semiotic theory that includes the analytical differentiation between contexts of discovery and contexts of justification, the claim about the resurrection is analyzed with reference to the categories revelation, experience, and recognition. Abduction is at work with regard to all of these categories. Among the consequences emerging from this approach is that there is no way to prove the fact of the resurrection: it remains an interpretation of signs.
Zusammenfassung
Die Behauptung der Auferstehung Jesu Christi ist durch relative semiotische Unbestimmtheit gekennzeichnet. Der Mangel an einer auf Erfahrung beruhenden Referenz für diese Behauptung impliziert, dass wir sie als Resultat einer abduktiven Interpretation verstehen müssen. Vor dem Hintergrund einer pragmatisch-semiotischen Theorie, welche die analytische Differenz zwischen Kontexten der Entdeckung und Kontexten der Begründung beinhaltet, wird die Behauptung der Auferstehung in Hinblick auf die Kategorien Offenbarung, Erfahrung und Erkenntnis analysiert. In all diesen Kategorien ist Abduktion präsent. Eine der Konsequenzen dieses Vorgehens bildet die Unmöglichkeit die Auferstehung zu beweisen: sie bleibt eine Interpretation von Zeichen.
Note
Guest lecture, University of St. Andrews, UK, April 11., 2018.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Three perspectives on Resurrection: Revelation, Experience, Recognition
- Das Wort zwischen Mystik und Humanismus – Luthers Gewissheit und sein Machtanspruch
- Meister Eckharts Abendmahlsverständnis
- The Cognitive Aspect of Christian Faith and Non-doxastic Propositional Attitudes
- Creational Problems for Soul-Emergence from Matter: Philosophical and Theological Concerns
- Evolutionary theodicies – an attempt to overcome some impasses
- Design Discourse: A Way Forward for Theistic Evolutionism?
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