‘Doctor of the academy’ : Ernst Fuchs

摘要

This article focuses on the ‘New Hermeneutics’ as a development of the hermeneutics ofSchleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Bultmann. The notion ‘hermeneutical theology’ isexplained. From the perspective of the camaraderie between Gerhard Ebeling and Ernst Fuchs,the article describes the life story of Fuchs and the hostile antagonism he experienced fromconservative church circles in Germany. It points out Fuchs’s indebtedness on the hermeneuticallegacy of Bultmann and emphasises Ebeling’s support and collegiality.