Original Research - Special Collection: Graham Duncan Dedication
‘Doctor of the Academy’: Ernst Fuchs
Submitted: 16 February 2016 | Published: 30 September 2016
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Andries van Aarde, Professor Emeritus, Department of New Testament Studies, and Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South AfricaTanya van Wyk, Department of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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.
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