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Theism

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Author(s): Weßler, Heinz Werner | Nüssel, Friederike
[German Version] I. Religious Studies Developed during the European Enlightenment and in a Christian context, the concept of theism serves to characterize religious beliefs. While the concept of deism denies any lasting relationship between God and world, and atheism even denies the very existence of God, theism upholds the notion of an interaction between God and the world created by him, between the divine person and the individual human being. This expression, which is not only shaped by a Christi…

Son of God

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Author(s): Zeller, Dieter | Karrer, Martin | Nüssel, Friederike
[German Version] I. Religious Studies Son of God as a title applied to an individual must be distinguished from children of God (Child of God) applied to several individuals or a group (e.g. the Israelites). The New Testament title alludes to Davidic messiahship, based on 2 Sam 7:14a (Messiah: II, 2), where God promises Solomon fatherly oversight and appoints him as his representative on earth. Ps 2:7 (cf. Pss 89:27f.*; 110:1–3) uses that text to assert the worldwide dominion of the king of Israel. The “begetting” a…

Two Natures Doctrine

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
[German Version] The starting point for the emergence of the two natures doctrine in the Early Church was the question how to understand and speak about the incarnation of the Son of God as the basis for human redemption from sin and reconciliation (Reconciliation/Atonement) with God. Against docetic positions (Docetism), it was necessary to emphasize the true humanity of Jesus Christ. At the same time, it was important to insist on the full divinity of Jesus Christ as the incarnate Son of God, so as to be able to understand him as a revealer of God (Christology: II). Important foundations f…

Loci Method

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
[German Version] The “loci method” refers to the summarizing description of a specific subject area by means of the general or basic concepts (Gk topoi, Lat. loci) that have become traditionally associated with the respective topic. It is rooted in the classical theory of topics elaborated by dialectics and rhetoric. Drawing on the ancient rhetoricians and the writings of R. Agricola and Erasmus of Rotterdam, Melanchthon, in his Rhetoric (1519), advised students to use the loci method for the clear structuring of the subject matter. In his Loci communes rerum theologicarum (1521), he…

Unions, Church

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike | Best, Thomas F. | Winter, Jörg
[German Version] I. Germany and Europe The term “church unions” refers to mergers of churches of previously separate confessions. They take place at the institutional level, are based on a common foundation of confession of faith and doctrine (II), and have a common office. In Europe, on the one hand, there are various Eastern churches (Unions with Rome) united with Rome that belong to the Roman Catholic Church and acknowledge the primacy of the pope, but have retained their Orthodox liturgy and spiri…

Kähler, Martin

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
[German Version] (Jan 6, 1835, Neuhausen, near Königsberg (Kaliningrad) – Sep 7, 1912, Freudenstadt). Kähler, the son of a Lutheran pastor, grew up in Neuhausen, near Königsberg, and after 1841 in Preussisch Holland (Pasłęk). At his father's request, he began to study law at Königsberg but soon shifted to theology. In 1853 he went to Heidelberg, where R. Rothe awakened his interest in systematics. He continued his studies in Halle with Julius Müller and F. Tholuck, who encouraged and heavily influ…

Lutheranism

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Author(s): Schubert, Anselm | Knuth, Hans Christian | Grundmann, Christoffer H. | Nüssel, Friederike
[German Version] I. Denominations: Lutheran Churches in History – II. Lutheran Churches Today – III. Statistical Survey – IV. Missions – V. Ecumenism I. Denominations: Lutheran Churches in History 1. General Lutheranism denotes that portion of Christianity that traces its historical and theological origin to the Reformation of Martin Luther and uses his works as its theological foundation. The Latin terms Lutherani and Lutheranismus were coined originally by Roman Catholic opponents of the Reformation movement in order to identify it as heretical (firs…

Semler, Johann Salomo

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
[German Version] (Dec 18, 1725, Saalfeld – Mar 14, 1791, Halle). I. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Semler began his theological studies in Halle in 1743, passing his master’s examination in 1750. His most important teacher was S.J. Baumgarten, who got him interested in history and introduced him to the Lutheran confessional tradition. After a brief stint teaching at the Coburg Gymnasium, Semler was appointed professor of history and Latin poetry at the University of Altdorf. In 1753 he accepted a call to th…

Unio Mystica

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Author(s): Sparn, Walter | Nüssel, Friederike | Radtke, Bernd
[German Version] I. Philosophy of Religion The phenomenon of unio mystica within mysticism is of interest to the philosophy of religion because recent analytical approaches in religious studies and the psychology of religion permit a more precise assessment of the philosophical issues involved, and also because it brings to light (so much better) a philosophically discussable connection between religious behavior or experience and rational cognition (Epistemology). Although the term itself is not always u…

Apologetics

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
1. Development of the concept The term “apologetics” denotes the enterprise of defending the truth claim of the Christian religion against critical objections. Since the historical development of Christianity included debate with other religions from the very outset, the task of apologetics was already considered necessary in the New Testament period (1 Pet 3:15). It was important not only to champion the legality of the Christian religion but also to demonstrate the plausibility of the Christian fai…
Date: 2019-10-14

Order of salvation

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
1. DefinitionThe term order of salvation (Latin  ordo salutis) was coined in Protestant theology, and until well into the 19th century it was used primarily in Protestant dogmatics. It denotes the systematic summary of the various statements of the Bible about the activity of the Holy Spirit through which the individual (Humankind, human being) is brought to participate in the salvation given to humanity via Jesus Christ. In the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition, it appears already in the mid-16th century in the works of the Swiss Reformer Heinrich Bullinger [8. Vol. 4, 225]; on t…
Date: 2020-10-06

Ministry (ecclesiastical)

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
1. OverviewThe Christian churches understand the teaching office as the commission to proclaim the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ committed to them by the Apostles. Associated with this commission is the task of seeing that the message is not distorted. Therefore the teaching office includes the organized exercise of the commission to proclaim the Gospel and attention to correct teaching. The question of the understanding and appropriate configuration of the teaching office has been behind…
Date: 2020-04-06

Sacrament

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Author(s): Sparn, Walter | Walter, Peter | Nüssel, Friederike | Wasmuth, Jennifer
1. Introduction 1.1. General considerationsIn the early modern period, sacraments were part of the religious practice of all Christian churches, albeit with varying emphases and interpretations. Nevertheless, all believed that the celebration and administration of the sacraments, like the proclamation of the word of God, was central to the Christian church, and that sacraments, though performed by human beings, provided a place where the promise of Jesus Christ to be present with his flock was fulfi…
Date: 2021-08-02

Theological encyclopedia

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
1. Overview The emergence of the encyclopedic treatment of theology, one of the signature events in the early modern history of theology, was due in part to the Humanists’ interest in comprehensive, historically grounded education (Bildung), which Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians responded to in confessionally different ways in the 16th century. At the same time, the criticism of the traditional basis and exercise of the church’s theological teaching authority by cha…
Date: 2022-11-07

Dogma

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike | Walter, Peter
1. DefinitionThe term  dogma (Greek: “tenet, proposition”) in early modern usage, as in antiquity, the early church, and scholasticism, was used to denote doctrines and opinions of diverse content. The label can be applied to both church doctrines generally accepted as true and to disputed philosophical opinions, and even to Christian heresies. Since the term could definitely have a pejorative sense, it is understandable that until well into the early modern period the Christian theology of the Lat…
Date: 2019-10-14

Faith

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
1. Definition In Judaism and Christianity, faith denotes the relationship to God as Creator, sustainer, and goal of human life that conforms to human destiny. In both the Jewish and the Christian tradition, the early modern development of the concept of faith depended critically on the philosophical formation of theology in the Middle Ages and the various evolving constellations of piety. (On the understanding of faith in Judaism and the specific differences between the Jewish and Christian concepts, see also Jewish theology).Friederike Nüssel 2. Christianity 2.1. Refor…
Date: 2019-10-14

Dogmatics

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike | Walter, Peter | Wasmuth, Jennifer
1. DefinitionAlthough theologians in the early church like Origen (3rd century CE) engaged  de facto in dogmatics, the term dogmatics itself (Latin  theologica dogmatica, from Greek dogmatikḗ, “teaching regarding the church’s teaching –  dógma – i.e. “theological teaching, doctrine”) did not gain currency until the theology of the 17th century. During the early Enlightenment, J.F. Buddeus was the first to offer a definition, in his encyclopedic introduction to theology (1727) [11]: the term  dogmatics denotes the portion of theology that explains and demonst…
Date: 2019-10-14

Dogma

(1,142 words)

Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike | Walter, Peter
1. DefinitionÄhnlich wie im antiken, altkirchlichen und scholastischen Sprachgebrauch wird der Begriff D. (griech.; »Lehrsatz«) in der Nz. zur Bezeichnung von Lehren und Schulmeinungen unterschiedlichen Inhalts gebraucht. Dabei können sowohl die allgemein als wahr geltenden kirchlichen Lehren als auch umstrittene philosophische Schulmeinungen und sogar christl. Irrlehren als D. etikettiert werden. Da der Begriff somit durchaus abwertende Bedeutung haben konnte, ist zu verstehen, dass die in der christl. Theologie des lat. Westens als verbindlich angesehenen Gla…
Date: 2019-11-19

Heilsordnung

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
1. BegriffDer Begriff der H. (lat. ordo salutis) wurde in der evang. Theologie geprägt und in der Folgezeit bis ins 19. Jh. vornehmlich in der evang. Dogmatik verwendet. Er bezeichnet die systematische Zusammenfassung der verschiedenen Aussagen der Bibel über die Wirksamkeit des Heiligen Geistes, durch die der einzelne Mensch zur Teilhabe an dem in Jesus Christus geschenkten Heil geführt wird. In der reformierten (calvinistischen) Tradition begegnet er bereits in der Mitte des 16. Jh.s bei dem schweizer. Reformator Heinrich Bullinger [8. Bd. 4, 225], auf lutherischer Seite …
Date: 2019-11-19

Lehramt, kirchliches

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Author(s): Nüssel, Friederike
1. ÜberblickUnter L. verstehen die christl. Kirchen den Auftrag, die von den Aposteln überlieferte Botschaft des Evangeliums von Jesus Christus zu verkündigen. Damit verbindet sich die Aufgabe, darüber zu wachen, dass die Botschaft nicht verfälscht wird. Zum L. gehören darum die geordnete Wahrnehmung des Verkündigungsauftrages und die Aufsicht über die rechte Lehre. Die Frage nach Verständnis und angemessener Gestaltung des K. L. war Hintergrund aller Kirchenspaltungen in der Geschichte des Christentums (Schism…
Date: 2019-11-19
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