The relationship between individual and community, self and other forms the basis for Emanuel Hirsch's anthropology, harmatiology, theology and soteriology. In his dissertation, Oskar Hoffmann reconstructs Hirsch's existential-phenomenological contemporary view of the Lutheran doctrine of justification under the concepts of law and gospel from the perspective of recognition theory. In the course of this interpretation of Hirsch's theology, he shows that a strong concept of individuality can be developed with Emanuel Hirsch, irrespective of Hirsch's ethnic-racist ideology. This makes it possible to depict the event of redemption in Jesus Christ convincingly and also makes Hirsch's theology connectable to current theological, philosophical and sociological debates.