Hoffnung auf Vollendung

Das Verstandnis der Seele in der religiosen Innerlichkeit der Psalmen

by Christoph Todter

Book cover: Hoffnung auf Vollendung

Extent: 512 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte

Series volume number: 73

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(March 2023)

ISBN: 9783374073443

Price: $123.00

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For centuries, the soul was an inseparable part of humans’ self-image in Christian Europe. Today, however, it is hardly relevant even for a scientific description of human being. In its place are consciousness and self, mind and thought, identity and person, or experience and existence. Yet the religious introspection in the Psalter shows that a conceptual description can incorporate the concept of “soul,” even if there is no linguistic correlate. What the Psalms deal with and what is reflected in the concept of the soul is the basis neither for life nor for immortality, but instead a reverent consideration of the lived presence of the individual existence between guilt and passiveness before God in the hope for perfection.


  • By (author) Christoph Todter