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Culture
(7,222 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Church History – III. Philosophy – IV. Fundamental Theology – V. Ethics – VI. Culture, Art, and Religion – VII. Practical Theology
I. Religious Studies The word “culture” derives from Latin
cultura, “tilling of land”; since antiquity it has been used metaphorically for
cultura animi, “cultivation of the mind,” and for
status culturalis, the desirable refinement contrasting with the human
status naturalis. …
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Religion Past and Present
Critical Theory
(1,635 words)
[German Version] I. Philosophy – II. Fundamental Theology – III. Practical Theology
I. Philosophy Critical theory is the designation for the philosophical program of the Frankfurt School, a group of philosophers and social scientists belonging to the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) founded in 1923 in Frankfurt am Main. The term traces to an essay by M. Horkheimer,
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Religion Past and Present
Hope
(4,048 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies / History of Religions – II. Old Testament – III. New Testament – IV. Dogmatics – V. Ethics
I. Religious Studies / History of Religions …
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Religion Past and Present
Life
(7,317 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Bible – III. Fundamental Theology and Dogmatics – IV. Philosophy – V. Philosophy of Religion – VI. Natural Sciences – VII. Ethics
I. Religious Studies …
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Religion Past and Present
Life-World
(1,678 words)
[German Version] I. Philosophy – II. Fundamental Theology – III. Ethics – IV. Practical Theology
I. Philosophy Because the term
life-world (Ger.
Lebenswelt) usually refers to the concrete world of our everyday life experiences, it has sometimes been equated with everyday life. This interpretation overlooks the fact that it is a highly ambitious concept of theoretical philosophy, which has, however, taken on greatly different forms. Historically, the first hints of its conceptual development appear in the studies of the philosop…
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Religion Past and Present
Cynicism
(1,641 words)
1. The ancient Cynics were shadowy figures. The word “cynic” has never been explained etymologically, though it was usually thought to be the teaching place of the founder of the school, Antisthenes (b. ca. 445 b.c., a student of Socrates, who taught in the gymnasium Kynosarges), or to be grounded on a nickname: with Diogenes of Sinope (d. ca. 320 b.c.), a shameless and sarcastic pupil of Antisthenes, philosophy seemed to have gone “to the dogs” (Gk.
kyōn, adj.
kynikos). As “Socrates gone mad,” according to Plato, Diogenes attacked with a “quixotically evil tongue” …
