Kærlighedens dialektiker: Karakteristik af Hans Dencks kritiske spiritualisme

Resumé

Hans Denck (1500-1527) is known as one of the primary characters
in the South German Anabaptist movement. Denck has been
characterized as a humanist with a high view of the personal freedom
of human beings. Based on an analysis of Dencks concept of the difference,
or even opposition, between God and human beings, his idea
of yieldedness (gelassenheit), spiritualism and conception of the human
will, this article argues that Dencks position should be characterized as
critical spiritualism rather than humanism, in so far as the spiritual crisis
inflicted on human beings