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Contract
(1,461 words)
[German Version] I. Law – II. Religious Studies – III. Sociology and Social Ethics
I. Law Potential for development is of the essence of human personality. The legal instruments that promote this development include the contract, understood as a bilateral or multilateral agreement governing a legal relationship, entered into by the parties. Mutual assent (
consensus ad idem) of the parties to a contract has been constitutive since the beginning in both the ancient world and Judeo-Christian culture. Matt 20:1–16, for example, takes it …
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Religion Past and Present
Signs
(2,878 words)
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I. Terminology The term
sign usually means something perceptible to the senses that signifies something else, which gives it its specific meaning. In theological and philosophical usage, it differs from the term
symbol (Symbols), although the latter is sometimes used synonymously with
sign in semiotics and mathematics as well as in logic. While Aristotle used the term σημεῖον/
sēmeíon in various contexts – including his theory of conclusions –,Augustine of Hippo associated the theory of signs more closely with the theory of language (Phi…
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Religion Past and Present
Incantation
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[German Version] Incantations, as ritualized speech or writing, most closely resemble prayers. But whereas a prayer can be either spontaneous or formulaic, an incantation almost always uses traditional formulas. Prayers are addressed to personal powers such as gods, but incantations can also be addressed directly to natural forces. Normally prayers attempt to persuade a personal power through praise, whereas an incantation – also using words of praise and persuasion – attempts to coerce. If a pray…
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Religion Past and Present
Lament
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[German Version] Lament I. Religious Studies – II. Bible – III. Systematic Theology – IV. Practical Theology – V. Judaism
I. Religious Studies Lament has its roots in human experience; it gives voice to suffering and mourning, in ritual, poetic, or informal form. Its end is not theoretical, like theodicy, but practical: people react to the experience of situations perceived as mentally, physically or socially painful and process these experiences individually or collectively. The prototypical occasion for mournin…
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Religion Past and Present
Prayer
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I. Religious Studies Prayer is one of the most frequent and important religious acts in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It also appears in other religions – for example the indigenous religions of America. But it does not appear to be universal. Some Buddhist traditions, for example, are atheistic, and in them there is no prayer in the strict sense; these traditions often allow their adherents to pray to gods (e.g. Hindu gods), but they value the goals of such prayer less than enl…
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Religion Past and Present
Baptism
(22,186 words)
[German Version] I. History of Religion – II. New Testament – III. Church History – IV. Dogmatics – V. Practical Theology – VI. History of Liturgy – VII. Law – VIII. Missions – IX. Art
I. History of Religion From the standpoint of the history of religion, baptism is not a general type of rite (Rite and ritual) but a lustration ritual that is carried out not only in Christianity but also in historically related religions such as …
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Religion Past and Present
Zeichen
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I. Begrifflich Der Begriff Z. meint in der Regel etwas sinnlich Faßbares, das auf etwas anderes verweist und dadurch spezifische Bedeutung erhält. Theol. und philos. ist er vom Symbolbegriff (Symbol/Symbole/Symboltheorien) zu differenzieren, obwohl dieser in der Semiotik und in der Mathematik sowie in der Logik teilweise mit dem Zeichenbegriff synonym verwendet wird. Während Aristoteles den Ausdruck σημει˜οn̆/sēmeíon in unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen gebraucht – u.a. in seiner Lehre vom Schluß –, bindet Augustin die Zeichentheorie …
Taufe
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I. ReligionsgeschichtlichAus religionswiss. Sicht ist die T. kein allg. Ritustyp (Ritus/Ritual), sondern ein Lustrationsritual, das sowohl im Christentum als auch in den gesch. mit diesem verwandten Rel. wie Judentum und Mandäismus durchgeführt wird. Die T. hat sich aus Lustrationsritualen antiker nahöstlicher Flußzivilisationen entwickelt, wobei die Einzelheiten dieser Entwicklung eher im dunkeln liegen. In der Spätzeit des Zweiten Tempels wurde die T. in mehreren Gemeinschaften…
Vertrag
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I. Rechtswissenschaftlich, rechtsgeschichtlich Die Entfaltungsmöglichkeit gehört zum Wesen der menschlichen Personalität. Als rechtliches Instrument dient dazu u.a. der V., verstanden als zwei- oder mehrseitige, einverständliche rechtsgeschäftliche Regelung eines Rechtsverhältnisses. Der Konsens der Vertragsparteien ist seit je im antiken und jüd.-christl. Kulturkreis für den V. konstitutiv. Mit Selbstverständlichkeit setzt z.B. Mt 20,1–16 den (übrigens frei abgeschlossenen) V. als…