The Lutheran chorale that God himself is dead provoked doctrinal softening and scholarly debate
Evidence
‘God himself lies Dead’ was known and discussed as the authoritative expression of Lutheran doctrine: so much discussed that, for example, in the hymnal of Dortmund, the authors preferred to soften it to a less shocking version: ‘the Lord is Dead’. In the faculties of theology scholarly arguments raged about the dogmatic correction of the chorale. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 762
Categorization
- XREF: The Dortmund hymnal softening mirrors the general tendency — relevant to the reader’s writing on how subversive claims get domestication-edited — echoes of ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ moral-panic framing. — connects to: Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 153; For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154; The Death-of-God theme transferred from theology into modern philosophy’s domain. (+5 more)
- CANDY: A 16th-17th century hymnal literally edited ‘God himself lies dead’ to the tamer ‘the Lord is Dead’ — a perfect trivia nugget about doctrinal euphemism.
Broader Connections
- Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead
#corroborates(0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 153 - For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 154 - Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation
#expands(0.85) - The Death-of-God theme transferred from theology into modern philosophy’s domain.
#expands(0.80) - Hegel’s dialectical kenosis contradicts Lutheran divine freedom because it runs on negation
#complicates(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 697 - Thinking the negation of negation requires passing through the death of God
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 156