Existential anxiety and Christian hope

Dodlek, Ivan (author), Malović, Nenad (author)

The main idea behind this paper is that Christian hope can be a path to overcoming existential anxiety. Hope connects the vertical dimension, that is, faith and the meaning of life as a whole, with the horizontal dimension, i.e., love towards others and openness to communion. Both represent a correction of two deviations of modern people, namely the supposed calculability of their own lives and actions as well as social fragmentation and alienation. The two deviations prove to be a suitable ground for the application of the politics of fear, in which media mediation and fear production play rather important roles. That is why the perspective of hope is affirmed as a direct counterbalance to the perspective of fear.

• Language: English
• Keywords: existential anxiety, the perspective of fear, the perspective of hope, Christian hope
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 263-276
• Numbering: Letn. 82, [št.] 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164096
• UDC: 27-423.79:141.32
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2022/02/Dodlek
• COBISS.SI-ID: 125788163
• Publication date in RUL: 17.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik : glasilo Teološke fakultete v Ljubljani
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Teološka fakulteta
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Eksistencialna tesnoba in krščansko upanje

Abstract

Glavna misel tega prispevka je, da je krščansko upanje lahko pot do premagovanja eksistencialne tesnobe. Upanje povezuje vertikalno dimenzijo, torej vero in smisel človekovega življenja, ter horizontalno dimenzijo, torej ljubezen do drugih in odprtost do skupnosti. Oboje je popravek dveh deviacij sodobnega človeka, in sicer domnevne preračunljivosti lastnega življenja in dejanj ter družbene razdrobljenosti in odtujenosti. Oboje se izkaže za primerno podlago za izvajanje politike strahu, pri čemer imata pomembno vlogo medijsko posredovanje in produkcija strahu. Zato se perspektiva upanja potrjuje kot neposredna protiutež perspektivi strahu.

• Keywords: eksistencialna tesnoba, perspektiva strahu, perspektiva upanja, krščansko upanje