NAPREDAK NASUPROT PROVIDNOSTI
PROGRES AGAINST PROVIDENCE

Summary/Abstract: In this work which makes the fourth chapter of his »Weltgeschichte und Heilsgeschehen «, Löwith gives a critical analysis of the idea of unlimited progress of history which in fact represents the secularized version of Christian faith in salvation and completion of history. By interpreting the work of Proudhon and Comte, the author takes note that their reform programme is defined by the Christian idea in spite of the radical denial of the notion of providence. The secularized comprehension of history is in essence an eshatologic expectation of salvation. Therefore, all constructions on historic progress (as well as retrogression) are a late but still powerful result of biblical teachings of decline and salvation.

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