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Record W2918187646

Friedrich Christoph Oetinger’s Speculative Pietism

2018· article· en· W2918187646 on OpenAlexaff
Sean McGrath

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPhilosophical and Historical Studies
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTheosophyPhilosophyMysticismRevelationFaithLiteratureReading (process)TheologyPietismNatural philosophyReligious studiesArtGermanEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The influence of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702-82) on Schelling’s work is even deeper than that exerted by Jakob Boehme, deeper, not because Schelling devoted more scholarly attention to Oetinger than he did to the study of Boehme (he did not), but because Schelling was very likely first introduced to Boehme, theosophy and Protestant mysticism by reading Oetinger. Both Schelling’s father and grandfather were pastors in the Wurtembergian Pietist tradition. Schelling most probably first read the works of Oetinger in his father’s study as a precautious boy eager to make his way in knowledge both natural and divine. Oetinger’s Biblical Dictionary ( Biblisches Worterbuch ), a compendium of theosophy and Biblical theology, was written for lay people as a study guide to the reading of Scripture, but this does not fairly describe it. Concerned as he was with a non-mechanistic philosophy of nature that would be not only consonant with Biblical revelation but also to some degree confirmative of it, Oetinger jammed the encyclopedia with natural scientific and esoteric and occult material one would not expect to find in such a text. It was likely a staple of Schelling’s catechetical education. At the age of ten, Schelling received an intense immersion in Oetinger’s theosophical pietism, when he was sent to live in Nurtingen while he attended Latin school. He lived for a time in the house of his uncle, who was known as a “fiery disciple of Oetinger’s.” Here he met Phillip Matheus Hahn, the most important follower of Oetinger’s, who impressed Schelling so deeply that the boy was inspired to compose his first poem on the occasion of the great theologian’s death.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.960
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.355
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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