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Theological tendencies
(1,457 words)
1. Definition The umbrella term
theological tendencies is somewhat fuzzy. In any case, it denotes theological phenomena, not religious movements, which tended to appear primarily in forms of piety, such as the late medieval
devotio moderna, Pietism, or Methodism (Religious reform movements). Within the history of theology (as methodical and systematic reflection on objects of religious life and belief), it is broader than the concept of a school, which (at least in the strict sense) means the narrow circle of students associat…
Date:
2022-11-07
Controversial theology
(666 words)
While the debate of Christian theology with non-Christian religions takes place under the heading of apologetics,
controversial theology denotes doctrinal debate within Christianity. It does not deal with differences between individual theologians or schools of thought but only with issues that divide Christian churches, confessions, and denominations from each other. The term is used particularly for the debate between Catholicism and the major Protestant confessions (Protestantism). The divisive differences…
Date:
2019-10-14
Ecclesiastical historiography
(1,747 words)
1. Humanism and ReformationWhereas late medieval ecclesiastical historians [13] preferred the genres of chronicles, annals, and
vitae (Biography; Hagiography), Humanism brought epoch-making changes of direction with its new critical and philological erudition and its programmatic turn to the texts of Antiquity (
ad fontes, “to the sources”). The invention of printing also led to the production of a wide range of reliable editions in Christian historiography, including first Latin, later Greek sources, culminating in the recovery o…
Date:
2019-10-14
Dogma, history of
(906 words)
1. Background and antecedentsThe idea of a history of dogma, that is, historicization of the truth claim of ecclesiastical teaching, was developed in the age of the Enlightenment as a sophisticated way of criticizing dogma. The early church was convinced of the immutability of its doctrinal tradition and therefore considered dogmatic divergences to be expressions of heresy. In the Middle Ages, the idea cautiously arose that the binding body of the church’s teaching could be extended, albeit not cha…
Date:
2019-10-14
Piety
(4,991 words)
1. Christianity
1. TerminologyThe German abstract noun
Frömmigkeit (piety) and the adjective it is based on –
fromm (pious, devout) – were long polysemous. Until the late 19th century, they preserved their original meaning: OHG
fruma meant “benefit,” “usefulness”; the derived MHG adjective
vrum (
frumb) was used in the sense of “beneficial,” “useful” (e.g.
ein frommes Pferd [a useful horse];
zum Nutz und Frommen [to the benefit (of someone)]). As an expression of orderliness, God himself is extolled as
fromm in hymns (Hymn [church anthem]): the apostrophe
O Gott du…
Date:
2020-10-06
Bible translation
(4,210 words)
1. Protestantism The Reformers saw the Bible as the complete, self-evident revelation of God. This meant a rejection of a spiritualistic appeal to additional inner revelations as well as the Catholic view that God has revealed himself equally in the Bible and in Church tradition so that the Bible can only be properly understood and interpreted by ecclesiastical ministers of the teaching tradition (Ministry [ecclesiastical]), and under no circumstances by just anyone. This difference in revelation …
Date:
2019-10-14
Censorship
(5,070 words)
1. General considerations Censorship (Lat.
censura; “examination,” “judgment”) is now understood as the “authoritative monitoring of human utterances” [18. 3] and serves for communication monitoring, generally for the stabilization of a state or church system. This monitoring is realized by means of various different practical measures: by preventive censorship, which requires the submission for examination of manuscripts by relevant institutions before printing begins, or subsequent or repressive censorship, whi…
Date:
2019-10-14
Song
(4,449 words)
1. TerminologyThe word “song” – denoting (a) the act of sustaining a melody with the voice, and (b) a composition for singing – dates back to Old English and has virtually identical cognates in all the Germanic languages (e.g. ON
söngr, Dutch
zang, OHG
sang). NHG
Gesang, however, was superseded in the sense of “composition for voice” by
Lied in the 15th century. According to Grimm’s
Deutsches Wörterbuch,
Lied (compare ON
ljóð, OE
leóð, ME
leth, “lay”) originally denoted making music by plucking strings; OHG glosses render the Latin
bardus (bard) as
liudari, and the explanatory
carminu…
Date:
2022-08-17
Theology
(12,506 words)
1. IntroductionThe Greek word
theología (discourse/teaching concerning God and divinity) was used by Aristotle for the highest level of philosophy, so-called metaphysics (
Metaphysics 11. 7, 1064 b 1–3). In late antiquity, Christians used it initially for statements about the nature of God, while using the Greek word
oikonomía (household management) in the sense of “order of salvation” for God’s action in the world as Creator and Redeemer [2. 1081 f.]. In the 12th century, when
theology was used for Christian theology rather than purely philosophically as…
Date:
2022-11-07
Enlightenment
(14,627 words)
1. Concept and definition Enlightenment in English is first attested from 1865 as a translation of the German
Aufklärung, which was first recorded in 1691. With their European cognates
lumières (French),
illuminismo (Italian), and
ilustración (Spanish), they denote the most influential European educational and cultural movement of the 18th century, as well as its overriding goals: to subject all authorities, traditions, and hierarchies to the critical measure of a newly defined reason, and to abolish them if they ran counter…
Date:
2019-10-14