An Analysis of Motahhari and Brümmer’s Response to the Issue of God’s Mediation and Benevolence
Abstract The teaching of mediation in Islamic tradition refers to a person requesting forgiveness of another and in the Christian tradition apart from forgiveness includes the bestowal of goodness to another as well. Motahhari and Brümmer consider the acceptance of mediation to be faced with the pro...
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| description | Abstract The teaching of mediation in Islamic tradition refers to a person requesting forgiveness of another and in the Christian tradition apart from forgiveness includes the bestowal of goodness to another as well. Motahhari and Brümmer consider the acceptance of mediation to be faced with the problem of superiority of the mediator’s mercy as compared to God’s mercy and the limitedness of God’s benevolence. Motahhari believes the answer to this problem to be in the attention to the hierarchy in the world’s system and the bestowal of good to creation in the form of a linear system; mediation is not the existential cause for forgiveness but rather the preparatory cause for the bestowal of forgiveness from God. As a reply to this problem, Brümmer addresses God’s permission for man’s participation in spreading good to others in the form of prayers. According to Brümmer, God has made the world such that through prayers – while establishing a loving relationship with God – man can also have an active participation with God’s power in the acceptance of prayer. In this way, Motahhari and Brümmer with their answers consider mediation and God’s absolute benevolence to be consistent with one another. According to both, the world has an order in which man can play a role in spreading good to others with God’s permission. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8f349129a75a4c11aa3c8e616d5b02ed2023-09-02T18:57:28ZengUniversity of QomPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī1735-97912538-25002019-02-0120462210.22091/pfk.2019.2819.18121258An Analysis of Motahhari and Brümmer’s Response to the Issue of God’s Mediation and BenevolenceUm Hani Jarrahi0Reza Akbari1PhD candidate of philosophy of religion and modern theology, Islamic Azad University, science and research branch, Tehran, iranProfessor, imam Sadiq university, faculty of theology, islamic teachings and guidance, Department of islamic philosophy and Kalam, Tehran, iranAbstract The teaching of mediation in Islamic tradition refers to a person requesting forgiveness of another and in the Christian tradition apart from forgiveness includes the bestowal of goodness to another as well. Motahhari and Brümmer consider the acceptance of mediation to be faced with the problem of superiority of the mediator’s mercy as compared to God’s mercy and the limitedness of God’s benevolence. Motahhari believes the answer to this problem to be in the attention to the hierarchy in the world’s system and the bestowal of good to creation in the form of a linear system; mediation is not the existential cause for forgiveness but rather the preparatory cause for the bestowal of forgiveness from God. As a reply to this problem, Brümmer addresses God’s permission for man’s participation in spreading good to others in the form of prayers. According to Brümmer, God has made the world such that through prayers – while establishing a loving relationship with God – man can also have an active participation with God’s power in the acceptance of prayer. In this way, Motahhari and Brümmer with their answers consider mediation and God’s absolute benevolence to be consistent with one another. According to both, the world has an order in which man can play a role in spreading good to others with God’s permission.http://pfk.qom.ac.ir/article_1258_c3680e1f5437a0605a31db508b6f5fad.pdfmediationprayerdivine benevolencemotahharibrümmer |
| spellingShingle | Um Hani Jarrahi Reza Akbari An Analysis of Motahhari and Brümmer’s Response to the Issue of God’s Mediation and Benevolence Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī mediation prayer divine benevolence motahhari brümmer |
| title | An Analysis of Motahhari and Brümmer’s Response to the Issue of God’s Mediation and Benevolence |
| title_full | An Analysis of Motahhari and Brümmer’s Response to the Issue of God’s Mediation and Benevolence |
| title_fullStr | An Analysis of Motahhari and Brümmer’s Response to the Issue of God’s Mediation and Benevolence |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Analysis of Motahhari and Brümmer’s Response to the Issue of God’s Mediation and Benevolence |
| title_short | An Analysis of Motahhari and Brümmer’s Response to the Issue of God’s Mediation and Benevolence |
| title_sort | analysis of motahhari and brummer s response to the issue of god s mediation and benevolence |
| topic | mediation prayer divine benevolence motahhari brümmer |
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