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Providence and Lessing's Ditch

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Helmut Thielicke says that Lessing cannot find the absolute of reason in the relativity of history because "history is an accumulation of the accidental and irrational."

Behind the epochal hermeneutical ditch between the truths of reasons and contingencies of history is a loss of any sense of providential history. Or, perhaps only a Calvinst can really oppose Lessing.

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Friday, December 22, 2006 at 03:57 PM

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