‘Doctor of the academy’ : Ernst Fuchs
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Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.)
Van Wyk, Tanya
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OpenJournals Publishing
Abstract
This article focuses on the ‘New Hermeneutics’ as a development of the hermeneutics of
Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Bultmann. The notion ‘hermeneutical theology’ is
explained. From the perspective of the camaraderie between Gerhard Ebeling and Ernst Fuchs,
the article describes the life story of Fuchs and the hostile antagonism he experienced from
conservative church circles in Germany. It points out Fuchs’s indebtedness on the hermeneutical
legacy of Bultmann and emphasises Ebeling’s support and collegiality.
Description
This article is dedicated to Professor Dr Graham Duncan, a church historian who has introduced to his
Pretoria colleagues the truism that reformation means transformation, and that transformation is
conversion’s other side of the coin.
Keywords
Life story, Church cycle, Hermeneutical theology, Ernst Fuchs, New hermeneutics, Gerhard Ebeling (1912-2001), Hermeneutical legacy of Bultmann
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Citation
Van Aarde, A.G. & Van Wyk,
T., 2016, ‘“Doctor of the
Academy”: Ernst Fuchs’, HTS
Teologiese Studies/
Theological Studies 72(1),
a3357. http://dx.DOI.org/
10.4102/hts.v72i1.3357.