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Foucauld, Charles Eugène de
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[German Version] (vicomte [viscount]; Sep 15, 1858, Strasbourg – Dec 1, 1916, Tamanrasset, Algeria). After a life of dissipation as an officer in the French army, Foucauld rediscovered his Catholic faith through an encounter with Islamic piety and tried to live that faith first among Trappist monks, then as a page among the Clarists. He later ministered among the Tuaregs in the Algerian Sahara and founded a lay community to which L. Massignon also belonged. Foucauld was an extremely multifaceted f…
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Religion Past and Present
Oath
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[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Old Testament – III. Judaism – IV. New Testament …
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Religion Past and Present
Rites Controversy
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[German Version]
I. History
1. The rites controversy is understood to refer to the controve…
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Religion Past and Present
Damnation
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[German Version] I. History of Religions – II. Philosophy of Religion – III. Dogmatics
I. History of Religions As a theological category, damnation belongs primarily in the context of the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The etymology of the …
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Expiation
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[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Bible – III. Dogmatics – IV. Ethics
I. Religious Studies While (re)conciliation as an instrument for reaching an amicable settlement in a lawsuit has echoes of the legal ¶ dimension of expiation, the meaning of expiation (appeasement, pacification) refers first of all to the (re)establishment of an undisturbed state or of a “sound” relationship. In contrast to atonement (Reconciliation: I…
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Religion Past and Present
Sin, Guilt, and Forgiveness
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[German Version]
I. Terminology Sin is a human breach of relationship with God. The term is emptied of content if it is used only for moral lapses. Only if a moral transgression in the mundane world is understood as a dimension of human alienation from God can it properly be called sin. The fundamental act of sin is unfaith (Unbelief ). In unfaith we close our eyes to the fact that we owe our existence to God and that he turns to us in love. We resist the idea that he determines our lives totally. T…
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Modernization
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[German Version] I. Study of Religion – II. History – III. Sociology – IV. Practical Theology – V. Missiology
I. Study of Religion The term modernization usually refers to mutually reinforcing structural changes in various social sectors: nation building and democratization in the political sector; industrialization and tertiarization (i.e. the development of services) in the economic sector; urbanization, educational expansion, and mobilization in the social sector; diversification and individualization in the cultural sector (Zapf). From a historical point of view, modernization is considered the long-term consequence of the industrial revolution (Industrialization) and of the political revolutions of the 18th century. Sociologically, it is regarded as the individual achievement of the societies involved in this process, an achievement that placed some countries in a position of leadership and set worldwide processes of emulation and learning in…
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