Abstract

The occasion of writing the present paper is offered by Tessitore’s essay La religione dello storicismo, an intense work about the critical and problematic concept of Historicism inspired by authors as Schleiermacher and Humboldt, Droysen and Ranke, Dilthey and Yorck, Harnack and Troeltsch, Weber and Meinecke. The Author’s aim is to clarify the connection between ethics, religion and history by talking over the human individuality and the human consciousness, and comparing them with temporality, which also means the not-linear chronological course of history and his connection between eternity and God’s alterity. Furthermore the author proposes a comparison between Tessitore’s historicist perspective, grounded on the evacuata est crux Christi, and the concept of religious Liberalität, explained by Alberto Caracciolo and deeply rooted in the “imperativo dell’eterno.” Between dissonances and consonances, divergences and convergences, this essay invite us to listen a single, more complex symphony