Erich Przywara

Erich Przywara ( born October 12, 1889 in Katowice, † September 28, 1972 in Hagen near Murnau ) was a Jesuit, Catholic philosopher and theologian.

Life

From 1908 to 1910 he ran through the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Exaten at Roermond ( Holland). Then he learned to 1921 the orden usual training in philosophy and theology in Valkenburg. In 1920 he was ordained a priest. From 1922 Przywara worked in the editorial of the Jesuit magazine votes over time, from 1933 until the ban by the Nazi regime in 1941 he was the editor of. During the war he was able to devote the Altakademiker pastoral care only because of serious illness. In Hagen at Murnau, he finally found a secluded home, where he, despite his illness, an extensive late work created. Przywara died there on 28 September 1972. His grave is located in Pullach.

Main ideas

Przywara turns out especially in the confrontation with Karl Barth and Max Scheler, that recognition of the human mind is indeed the horizon of being in general takes as finite knowledge but never can grasp the infinite fullness of being itself, but being only on beings can reach the infinite only in the mirror of the finite. The knowledge of being only happens analog: the significance of the findings is tempered by their non- significance, as it is called in the formula of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215: "inter creatorem et creaturam non potest tanta similitudo notari, quin inter eos maior sit dissimilitudo notanda. " [ between Creator and creature no similitude can be said without them einschlösse a greater dissimilarity between the two ]

Przywara shows that all philosophy and theology was under the specification of this Analogia entis, and thereby posits just that despite all the ( actual ) unthinkability the infinite can be thought of.

Impact and assessment

Influenced has him his acquaintance with Edith Stein. He worked mainly on Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner and Josef Pieper.

Sophie Scholl was reading in the spring of 1941, when they had to serve their Reich Labor Service, in the works of Augustine Doctor of the Church; this reading of Erich Przywara, Augustine. The shape of the structure (Leipzig 1934) brought her some " sneer " of their RAD - mates. In his brilliant introduction, editor Przywara the whole of Western intellectual history under the sign of Augustine, after fertilizing as well as the dangerous side. Finally Przywara addresses the intra- Catholic primary voltage Augustine Thomas.

Works

  • God mystery of the world. Three lectures on the spiritual crisis of the present, Munich, 1923
  • Philosophy of Religion Catholic theology. In: Handbook of Philosophy. Edited by A. Baumler and M. Schröter, Division II, pp. 1-104. 1927
  • Rings of the present, 2 vols, 1929.
  • O great king, Jesus Christ; in some dioceses known hymn (eg Osnabrück GL 931 ); In 1931.
  • Analogy of being 1932
  • Heroic; Paderborn / Vienna / Zurich, 1936
  • Thomas Aquinas, Ignatius of Loyola, Friedrich Nietzsche. In: Journal of asceticism and mysticism 11 (1936 ), 257-295.
  • Old and New Covenants. Theology of the hour; Vienna and Munich, 1956.
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