Language event (German: Sprachereignis) is an act or instance of written or spoken communication.
Conversely, the reality of God's love is verbalized in Jesus' words and deeds recorded in the Gospels and is thus preserved as language gain (German: Sprachgewinn).
In the freedom of proclamation God's presence in the gospel as the "Yes of love" happens again-that is, comes to be as language, opening up the future to authentic existence (faith, hope, and love) [2] According to the Epistles of Paul, the proclaimed Word of God effects and creates faith.
[7] So it is z. E.g. in his second Psalm lecture (1519/20) on Ps 18.45 VUL: "Actum igitur credendi (ut vocant) nescio quibus verbis possis aptius eloqui quam ista periphrasi divina:" auditu auris audivit mihi ", hoc est, stultus sibi fuit populus gentium, ut mihi crederet in his, quae non videret nec caperet."
By referring to the passage as a "transcription", Luther means the "inner" and "spiritual" hearing through which the act of believing (actum credendi) is characterized.
[8] In accordance with such a Lutheran understanding of the word, Fuchs will later develop his theory of the language event.
Eberhard Jüngel, theologically influenced by Ernest Fuchs, proved to be a proponent of the language event.