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THE DEEP COINHERENCE: A CHINESE APPRECIATION OF
N.F.S. GRUNDTVIG’S PUBLIC THEOLOGY
BY WEN, GE
AUGUST 2013
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THE DEEP COINHERENCE: A CHINESE APPRECIATION OF
N.F.S. GRUNDTVIG’S PUBLIC THEOLOGY
BY WEN, GE
AUGUST 2013
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Glossary
1. Introduction /1
1.1. Motivation /1
1.2. Key Themes and Concepts /3
1.3. Methods, Structure, and Language /4
1.3.1. Methods /4
1.3.2. Structure /5
1.3.3. Language /5
2. A Note on Public Theology /6
2.1. The Origin and General Development of Public Theology /6
2.2. A Brief and ad hoc Definition of Public Theology /7
2.2.1. The Theological Dimension of Public Theology /7
2.2.2. The Public Dimension of Public Theology /8
2.2.3. The Interaction Between Theology and the Public /9
2.2.4. Civil Society and Public Theology /12
2.3. The Distinction of Public Theology from Political Theology, Civil Religion, Social
Ethics, and Social Theology /13
2.4. Summary /17
3. Grundtvig’s Life and Work /18
3.1. Love of Christianity /19
3.2. Love of Family /22
3.3. Love of People /23
3.4. Summary /25
4. The Background of the Nineteen-Century Denmark /26
4.1. Politics /26
4.2. Economics /27
4.3. Culture /27
4.3.1. Cultural Crisis as Perceived by Grundtvig /28
4.3.2. The Dominance of Enlightenment Ethos /28
4.3.3. The Influence of Romanticism /30
4.3.4. The Widespread Use of Foreign Languages /31
4.3.5. Summary /34
4.4.Church /35
4.4.1. The Challenge of Rationalism /35
4.4.2. The Declining Church Life /35
4.4.3. The Emergence of Pietistic Groups /36
4.4.4. The Danish Church-State Relationship /37
4.5. Summary /38
5. Grundtvig’s Ecclesial Perspective /39
5.1. The Christian Point of Departure /40
5.2. True Christianity in Response to Modernity /40
5.2.1. Grundtvig’s Biblicist Christianity (1810-1824) /41
5.2.2. The Matchless Discovery /42
5.2.2.1. The Discovery of the Apostles’ Creed /42
5.2.2.2. The Apologetic and the Didactic Functions of the Ecclesial
Perspective /44
5.2.2.3. The Deep Coninherence of the Divine and the Human in the Word /45
5.2.3. In Continuity with Martin Luther /48
5.2.4. Some Criticism of the Ecclesial Perspective /49
5.3. True Church as the Living Congregation /52
5.3.1. A Community of the Living Word /53
5.3.2. A Non-Institutional Community Established by the Spirit /55
5.3.3. Not a Castle in the Air, but a Historical Reality /55
5.3.4. Not Being Sectarian, but Ecumenical /56
5.3.5. A Fellowship of Corporate Christ-like Life /57
5.4. Summary /59
6. Grundtvig’s Social Philosophy /61
6.1. The Anthropological Presupposition of Grundtvig’s Social Philosophy /61
6.2. Grundtvig’s Concept of Folkelighed /65
6.2.1. Folkelighed in Relationship to People and the National Spirit /65
6.2.2. Folkelighed as a Historical Cultural-Ethnic Reality /68
6.2.3. Folkelighed Associated with Equality and Freedom /69
6.2.4. Folkelighed as a Communal Reality /69
6.2.5. Folkelighed as a Dynamic Unfinished Reality /70
6.2.6. Folkelighed and People’s High School /71
6.2.7. Summary /71
6.3. Civil Society as the Plausibility Structure of Folkelighed /72
6.3.1. Civil Society and Folkelighed /72
6.3.2. Civil Despair in Terms of State, Church and School /73
6.3.3. Grundtvig’s Vision of Civil Society /75
6.3.3.1. Grundtvig’s Concept of Society /75
6.3.3.2. Semantic Analyses of Grundtvig’s Use of “Civil Society” /75
6.3.3.3. Grundtvig’s Distinction of Civil Society from State /76
6.3.3.4. Civil Society as the Natural Human Ideal /78
6.3.3.5. Civil Society as a Historical Reality /79
6.3.3.6. Civil Society as a Spiritual Organic Unity /81
6.3.3.7. Civil Society as an Expansion of Family Life /82
6.3.3.8. The Common Good as the Foundation of Civil Society /85
6.3.3.9. Civil Society versus Liberal Individualism /86
6.3.3.10. Civil Society as a Folkelig Society /88
6.3.4. Civil Society and the State /90
6.3.4.1. The Transformation of the State in the Light of Civil Society /90
6.3.4.2. The State and Constitution /94
6.3.4.3. The State and Freehold Rights /96
6.3.4.4. The State and Freedom of Trade /96
6.3.4.5. The State and Charity /97
6.3.5. Civil Society and the Church /99
6.3.5.1. The Civil Aspect of Christianity /99
6.3.5.2. The Rejection of Both the State Church and the Church State /100
6.3.5.3. Creating a Free and Spacious National Church /104
6.3.5.4. The Non-Intervention of Church in School Education /110
6.3.5.5. Summary /112
6.3.6. Civil Society and School /113
6.3.6.1. The Necessity of the People’s High School /113
6.3.6.2. The School Situation at Grundtvig’s Time /113
6.3.6.3. People’s High School and Civil Society /115
6.3.6.3.1. Folkelig Education in the People’s High School /116
6.3.6.3.2. Folkelighed as the Educational Focus /118
6.3.6.3.3. The Abolition of Class Difference in the People’s High
School /121
6.3.6.4. Summary /123
6.4. Folkelighed and National Salvation /124
6.4.1. Folkelighed and Territory /124
6.4.1.1. The Two Stages of Grundtvig’s Plan for National Salvation /125
6.4.1.2. The Relationship of National Salvation to the North and the Whole of
Humanity /128
6.4.1.3. Inter-Folkeligt and Inter-National Relationship /129
6.4.2. Grundtvig’s Theology for the Nation /132
6.5. Summary /135
7. Grundtvig’s Public Theology /137
7.1. The Uniqueness of Grundtvig’s Public Theology /137
7.2. The Deep Divine-Human Coinherence in Grundtvig’s Public Theology /137
7.3. The Feature of Grundtvig’s Public Theology: The Humanity of God /139
7.4. The Contents of Grundtvig’s Public Theology /140
7.4.1. Internal Renewal of Christianity /140
7.4.1.1. The Rediscovery of the Free Christianity /140
7.4.1.2. The Folkelig Enlightenment of the Living Congregation /141
7.4.2. External Influence upon the People and the Public Life /143
7.4.2.1. Creating a Free Folkelighed for the Public Discourse /143
7.4.2.2. A Christian Enlightenment of Human Life /147
7.5. Summary /153
8. A Chinese Appreciation of Grundtvig’s Public Theology /154
8.1. A General Chinese Appreciation /154
8.2. A Chinese Apperception of the Deep Coninherent Divine-Human Relationship in the Light of the Chinese Yin-Yang Paradigm /162
8.2.1. Different Expositions of Grundtvig’s Divine-Human Dynamic in the Danish Grundtvig Scholarship /162
8.2.1.1. A Possible Natural Theology? /163
8.2.1.1.1. The Inner Human Cognitive Triadic Structure /163
8.2.1.1.2. The Poetic Symbolic Language /164
8.2.1.1.3. The Human Experience of Love /165
8.2.1.1.4. Summary /165
8.2.1.2. The Objection of Kaj Thaning’s Secular Reading of Grundtvig /165
8.2.1.2.1. Ander P. Thyssen /166
8.2.1.2.2. Theodor Jørgensen /166
8.2.1.2.3. Helge Grell /167
8.2.1.2.4. Hans. R. Iversen /167
8.2.1.2.5. Regin Prenter /170
8.2.1.2.6. Niels H. Gregersen /174
8.2.1.3. Human Beings as Microcosmos to Mediate Spirit and Nature /176
8.2.2. The Divine-Human Relationship in the Light of Yin-Yang Philosophy /177
8.2.2.1. The Explication of the Yin-Yang Diagram /178
8.2.2.2. The Divine-Human Circulation /182
8.2.3. Summary /191
8.3. A Chinese Appraisal of Grundtvig’s Public Theology /192
8.3.1. The Interaction between Christianity and the Folkelig Life /192
8.3.2. The Relationship between Heart and Hand in Grundtvig’s Public
Theology /194
8.3.3. Challenges /195
9. Conclusion /199
Danish Resumé /205
English Resumé /207
Bibliography /209
Appendix: N.F.S. Grundtvig and China /238
