Retaking the world

Authors

  • Matheus Maia Schmaelter UERN/Caicó

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25244/tf.v15i1.4832

Keywords:

Christianity, Faith, Finitude, Infinitude, Thelogy of the Cross

Abstract

This article aims, under an existential perspective and grounded in the Christian tradition, to reflect upon the problematic relation between faith and finitude, pointing out that the first is found whole only in the experience of finitude, what is called retaking the world in our title. For that, we primarily analyze the so called theologia crucis, of Luther, presented in the Heidelberg Disputation, where the german reformer defends, in critical opposition to scholastics, that the knowledge of God is only possible on what is visible, namely, the crucified Christ. Right away we see how Kierkegaard, through the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio in Fear and Trembling, describes the experience of faith as a double movement o resignation and retaking, characterizing faith inside a paradoxical existential experience, that lives in the tension between finitude and infinitude.

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Author Biography

Matheus Maia Schmaelter, UERN/Caicó

Doutorando em filosofia pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) e professor temporário na Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN) – Campus Avançado Caicó

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Published

2023-03-13

How to Cite

SCHMAELTER, Matheus Maia. Retaking the world. Trilhas Filosóficas, [S. l.], v. 15, n. 1, p. 81–96, 2023. DOI: 10.25244/tf.v15i1.4832. Disponível em: https://homologacaoperiodicos.apps.uern.br/index.php/RTF/article/view/4832. Acesso em: 6 dec. 2025.