The History of Salvation or History as Gradual Progress? On Understanding John Amos Comenius' conception of history

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08261-1_13" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-658-08261-1_13</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The History of Salvation or History as Gradual Progress? On Understanding John Amos Comenius' conception of history
Original language description
The ultimate meaning of human history has attracted attention of many scholars. Comenius presented his reflections on history in Consultatio Catholica. Here he outlines the reform of human society, in anticipation of the seventh millennium which is, in his view, the climax of all historical events: for Jesus Christ – the ruler of history – comes to establish his kingdom on Earth. I argue that Comenius' conception of history presents an original point between the traditional Christian beliefs in divine providence on the one hand and the belief in social progress which makes the human race gradually better, on the other. To illustrate this, I compare Comenius' ideas with two contradictory standpoints introduced by two later personalities, the French clergyman Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1724), the representative of the traditional theology of history, and the French philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778), who can be considered the first philosopher of history in the modern sense.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GB14-37038G" target="_blank" >GB14-37038G: Between Renaissance and Baroque: Philosophy and Knowledge in the Czech Lands within the Wider European Context</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Gewalt sei ferne den Dingen! Contemporary Perspectives on the Works of John Amos Comenius
ISBN
978-3-658-08260-4
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
209-220
Number of pages of the book
492
Publisher name
Springer VS
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
UT code for WoS chapter
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