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Body and Corporeality
(3,316 words)
[German Version] I. Bible – II. Dogmatics – III. Ethics
I. Bible
1. Old Testament and Gospels. The word “body” rarely appears in the Hebrew OT, because human beings are usually referred to as flesh and soul (cf. Flesh and spirit: I). The LXX often uses σῶμα/
sṓma (“body”) to translate בָּשָׂר/
bāśār (“flesh”). Although the term “body” does not occur in creation passages, it is still true that human beings were created by God as physical creatures …
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Religion Past and Present
Compassion
(1,239 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Christianity – III. Buddhism
I. Religious Studies The term compassion bears Christian connotations: compassion (cf. Lat.
compassio; Gk συμπάϑεια/
sympátheia) refers to the capacity or ability to share concretely in the suffering of others, to sympathize and to draw consequences for one's own behavior. In this regard, the religions answer the question of the appropriate object for compassion – for example all people, only people of a certain group, …
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Religion Past and Present
Social Psychology
(1,678 words)
[German Version]
I. The Concept Social psychology studies the modes of social experience and behavior and the interaction processes both of individuals and between individuals and social systems (Community and the individual) of varying complexity (microsystems like partnerships, families [Family], groups; mesosystems like organizations and institutions; macrosystems like social, political and cultural entities), as well as the relationship of social systems to each other. The basic issues, which are…
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Religion Past and Present
Pragmatism
(3,095 words)
[German Version]
I. The Term and Its Impact Though there was scattered use of the term in German historiography (Ernst Bernheim) and 19th-century German and French philosophy (Conrad Herrmann, M. Blondel), the concept and term go back to C.S. Peirce (see also II below), who introduced the concept in
How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878), the term in 1902 in J. Baldwin’s
Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, and both orally between 1871 and 1873 ¶ in the Metaphysical Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He used the term for a logical maxim that the meaning of concepts must…
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Religion Past and Present
Rationality
(2,088 words)
[German Version]
I. Philosophy
Rationality is derived from Latin
ratio (“calculation, consideration, reason”) and medieval Latin
rationalitas (“reason, capacity for thought”). The term denotes various intellectual capacities that distinguish human beings as “rational animals” from the other more highly developed animals. In German, from the 18th century, these capacities were generally designated as
Verstand (Intellect: I) and
Vernunft (Reason: I). Under the influence of the English term
rationality, and the usage of various scientific disciplines, especially s…
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Religion Past and Present
Meaning
(2,828 words)
[German Version] I. Philosophy – II. Philosophy of Religion – III. Fundamental Theology – IV. Ethics – V. Practical Theology
I. Philosophy To speak of the meaning of a linguistic utterance is ambiguous from a systematic point of view. The various ¶ semantic concepts correspond to various levels of understanding (comprehension of meaning). The first three levels belong to the field of semantics: (1) If the spoken sentence P is free of lexical and grammatical ambiguities in the language of the speaker, then the interpreter understand…
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Religion Past and Present
Merit
(4,227 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Judaism – III. New Testament – IV. History of Dogma – V. Dogmatics – VI. Ethics – VII. Ecumenics
I. Religious Studies In European Christian theology the doctrine of merit (Lat.
meritum) became a controversial subject, by which (at least on the Protestant side) it was thought possible to demonstrate with particular clarity the basic difference between Catholicism and Lutheranism (see IV below). Discussion in religious studies has shown that the use of such a theologically loaded conc…
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Religion Past and Present
Self
(2,419 words)
[German Version]
I. Philosophy The term
self (ἑαυτοῦ/
heautoú; αὑτοῦ/
hautoú) appears as a noun (“the self”) but more often in compounds such as
self-consciousness, self-relation, self-assertion, self-actualization, self-determination, self-assurance, and self-realization. Its basic meaning has to do with autonomy: self is something that can be by itself and stand by virtue of itself alone. Greek philosophy already emphasized this meaning: what something is of itself (καϑ᾿ αὑτά/
kath’ hautá; Arist.
Metaph. 1017a 27) is what is independent of accidentals. What is self-moving (α…
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Religion Past and Present
Play
(3,179 words)
[German Version]
I. Cultural History The Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga identified play as a fundamental cultural phenomenon and thus a defining feature of human life. His thesis of
homo ludens supplements the anthropological theories of
homo sapiens and
homo faber and other explanations of culture grounded in reason and fabrication (Labor). Huizinga posits the following definition: “Play is a voluntary activity or occupation executed within certain fixed limits of time and place, according to rules that are freely accepted …
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Religion Past and Present
Causality
(3,429 words)
[German Version] I. Philosophy – II. Science – III. Dogmatics – IV. Ethics
I. Philosophy Causality (from Lat.
causa, “cause”), also causal nexus, causal relationship, is a term for the characteristic relationship between cause and effect. The things related are generally assumed to be pairs of events (event causality), though in some cases they may be an active thing and an event (agent causality); whether agent causality can be reduced to event causality is disputed. In either ca…
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Religion Past and Present
Body and Soul
(4,458 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Philosophy of Religion and Historical Theology – III. Philosophy – IV. Dogmatics – V. Practical Theology – VI. Ethics
I. Religious Studies Perceptions of animate and inanimate nature, dreams, ecstasy, trance, and death, as well as sickness and physical sensation, and finally self-reflection and self-transcendence have led to highly diverse models for interpreting …
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Religion Past and Present
Tradition
(8,661 words)
[German Version]
I. Religious Studies In general usage,
tradition (from Lat.
transdare/
tradere, “hand on, transmit”) connotes retention and safeguarding, understood as a conservative handing down of mores, customs, norms, rules, and knowledge. The emphasis is on continuity with the past. Jan Assmann interprets tradition as an exemplary case of “cultural memory,” an enduring cultural construction of identity. In religions appeal to tradition is a prominent element justifying interpretations, practices, clai…
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Religion Past and Present
Soul
(8,968 words)
[German Version]
I. Religious Studies
1. Phenomenology Western, Christian connotations of the concept of the soul, imposed on the religio-historical evidence by outside studies, must be generally excluded if the soul is understood as the principle of manifestations of life that are perceptible (or culturally considered to be perceptible), although they are rarely categorized under a common umbrella term. It is therefore reasonable to speak of a multiplicity of souls – for example four among the Ob-Ugrians (Hasenfratz,
Einführung, 38–41), five among the Proto-Germanic peoples (
ib…
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Religion Past and Present