Description: In the perspective of an inner-worldly hermeneutics human learning comes into the focus of a reference to Biblical tradition. According to this, man is, in the light of a dialectic of mystery and God's command, challenged to understand himself in thinking and acting and to learn to endure himself. Confronted with the unfathomable diversity and contingency of inner-worldly relations the question arises in the present situation, 'etsi deus non daretur': How do I get a merciful self? In taking up a liberal-Protestant hermeneutics in association with a theological criticism of religion of reformed character, three approaches address the possibilities of a self-agreement of human beings: as a hermeneutics of learning, as an overcoming of the differences between individuals, and as a protection of necessary boundaries between humans.
