{"id":37875,"date":"2026-11-03T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/by-scripture-alone-henry-corbin-protestantism-islam\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:56:47","slug":"by-scripture-alone-henry-corbin-protestantism-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/by-scripture-alone-henry-corbin-protestantism-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"By Scripture Alone: Henry Corbin, Protestantism and Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Association of Friends of Henry and Stella Corbin<\/strong><\/a> and the \u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes<\/strong><\/a> (EPHE-PSL) are devoting their twenty-first Henry Corbin study day to the theme “By Scripture Alone: Protestantism and Islam”. For some twenty years, these study days have brought to a wider audience the reflections inspired by the work of the philosopher and Islamologist Henry Corbin (1903-1978), who succeeded Louis Massignon at the EPHE and was a director of studies there from 1954 to 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This edition sets out to shed light on Corbin’s relationship with Protestant thought. He saw the Reformation as a decisive break in the history of biblical hermeneutics: Luther’s emphasis on sola scriptura<\/em> and on the inward reading of Scripture chimed with his own interest in spiritual exegesis. He also valued in Hamann the central place given to language as the primary locus of all thought. These legacies became part of an intellectual journey that culminated in his encounter with Islamic-Iranian theosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corbin never described himself as a Protestant theologian, but as a philosopher: his phenomenological and hermeneutical approach aimed at a comparative hermeneutics of the Abrahamic and Iranian traditions, in which spiritual reading transcends confessional boundaries. The morning talks and the afternoon discussion will consider how fruitful this approach remains for reflection today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n