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God the Holy Spirit
(452 words)
[German Version] For Irenaeus the Holy Spirit (Spirit/Holy Spirit) is fully divine as mediator of the Fathers creating and redemptive action (God the Father), but the tendency after him was to conceive the Spirit as subordinate, even sometimes the highest of the creatures. Against this, Athanasius and the Cappadocians (Cappadocian theolog…
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Religion Past and Present
Incarnation
(1,365 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Philosophy of Religion – III. History of Dogma and Dogmatics
I. Religious Studies Until very recently, the use of the term
incarnation in religious studies was borrowed from ideas current in Christianity. From the perspective of systematics, incarnation or “enfleshment” goes hand in hand with a body and soul polarity, implying a particular conceptualization ¶ of the relationship between God and the world as well as with the concept of the individual and person, and with religious legitimation of authority (rev…
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Religion Past and Present
Creation
(11,110 words)
[German Version] I. History of Religion – II. Old Testament – III. Judaism – IV. New Testament – V. History of Theology – VI. Creation and Preservation – VII. Religious Education – VIII. Islam – IX. Science – X. Art History
I. History of Religion
1. Fundamentals Life, nature, the environment, the passage of time – these are everyd…
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Religion Past and Present
Redemption/Soteriology
(10,262 words)
[German Version]
I. Terminology All the major concepts in soteriology have biblical roots. Of central importance today is the notion of reconciliation (II), which bridges the theological and secular realms. The original Greek word καταλλαγή/
ka…
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Religion Past and Present
God the Son
(430 words)
[German Version] The biblical basis of the doctrine of the Son's particular divine personhood (Christology) is to be found in New Testament confessions (II), placing Jesus Christ alongside…
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Religion Past and Present
Monotheism and Polytheism
(5,621 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Old Testament. – III. New Testament – IV. Philosophy of Religion – V. Dogmatics
I. Religious Studies Monotheistic ideas of God, which take as their starting point the existence and activity of a single God, have long dominated the understanding of religion in historically Christian Europe. The term
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Christology
(26,944 words)
[German Version] I. Primitive Christianity – II. History of Doctrine – III. Dogmatics – IV. Forms of Extra-ecclesial Christology
I. Primitive Christianity
1. History of research and preliminary questions
a. The
term Christology, which originated in the early 17th century, was coined for systematic reflection concerning Jesus Christ. Initially, conceptions and Christologies dealing with the salvation history of the whole Bible beginning with the Old Testament were as highly valued as the New Testament (cf. e.g. G.F. Händel's
Messiah). NT Christology went its own way…
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Religion Past and Present