- 期刊
人是神的一份關懷－海舍爾的悲憫神學述評
Human is God's Concern: On Abraham Joshua Heschel's Theology of Pathos
並列摘要
The theology of pathos of Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) is based on both Tanakh and individual experiences, especially on Israelite prophetic experience. Heschel argues that God is concern or pathos, and divine pathos is the key to the Hebrew Bible. The theology of pathos is the uppermost meaning of his God's Anthropology. If his God's Anthropology could be divided into two taches - God's search for human and human search for God, the theology of pathos was the first and all-important one. His theology of pathos is based on the God-consciousness of prophets . If the basic action of holy reality presented in the God-consciousness of prophets is divine pathos, the response of prophets to it is sympathy. Furthermore, he argues that the wrath of God is relevant to the divine pathos, i.e., the wrath of God is the very aspect of the divine pathos. Divine pathos mainly refers to such aspects as follows: (I) anthropopneumism of God; (2) partnership between human and God; (3) God's need and requirement for humanity; (4) challenge from God. The theology of pathos criticizes different anthropocentric thoughts and has sharp contrast with the main stream of western philosophy that is rationalism. But it is also open to the charge of being Anthropomorphic.