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Voluntary Work and Associations
(4,301 words)
[German Version]
I. Importance in Europe A voluntary association (Ger.
ehrenamtliche Vereinigung)serves the common interest of its members. Voluntarism has to do with the freedom of the will (
voluntas; Free will), and when individuals work together of their own free will in order to accomplish a task, this leads to the creation of a voluntary association. Membership in it is neither compulsory nor acquired by birth, and its activities do not contribute to the livelihood of its members. Since human bein…
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Religion Past and Present
Diakonia
(4,137 words)
[German Version] I. Church History – II. Denominations – III. Diakonia Today
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Religion Past and Present
Competency, Pastoral
(310 words)
[German Version] “Competency” refers to the skills and abilities associated with the pastoral office. It denotes the professional standards acquired during theological studies and in in-service training (Ordination and post-ordination education and training), as required in the day-to-day context of parochial or functional pastoring. While a theological education imparts hermeneutical, exegetical, historical, and theoretical skills, an application-centered…
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Religion Past and Present
Industry
(1,975 words)
[German Version] I. History of Economics – II. Industrial Work Environment – III. Industrial Congegration
I. History of Economics In a long, continuous process, modern industrialism (Industrialization) developed from crafts, household industry and manufacturing. The so-called Industrial Revolution led to a differentiated factory system and the machine became the symbol of the new industrial era. Systems of factories and machines became entwined in a novel form of production and communication. Major technical inventions (mechanical looms, steam engines, steamships, locomotives, etc.) altered the traditional forms of propulsion and production, indeed the entire labor and social environment. Most closely entwined with the Industrial Revolution was a revolution of the spirit. Economic liberalism introduced into social practice a new spirit of freedom of competition against governmental regulation and guild restrictions, a spirit of freedom of contract and liberal labor contracts, of individual ownership, and much more. Within businesses, the spirit of measurable rationality now determined the means of production and the structu…
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Religion Past and Present