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Grace
(9,133 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Old Testament – III. New Testament – IV. Church History – V. Systematic Theology – VI. Law – VII. Judaism
I. Religious Studies
1. The use of the term
grace has been influenced strongly by the historically innovative Pauline conception. For Paul, grace is a gift, a unique fruit of God's salvific purpose and redemptive action. After the analogy of other redemptive religions, Paul employed this term to denote a fundamental aspect of the salvific action of the deity. In other religions (e.g. the religions of Grec…
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Religion Past and Present
Violence and the Use of Force
(2,190 words)
[German Version]
I. Anthropology Violence as the power of some to intimidate others against their will by threat or exercise of physical coercion or force them to (o…
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Religion Past and Present
Order
(2,247 words)
[German Version] I. Philosophy – II. Law – III. Dogmatics – IV. Ethics
I. Philosophy The concept of order (Gk τάξις/
táxis, κόσμος/
kosmos; Lat.
ordo) is employed in natural philosophy, epistemology, and cultural anthropology. It refers to an arrangement of elements that stand in a particular relationship to one other and form the structure of a larger whole. The concept of order is particularly fundamental to cosmology: for Hesiod, the genesis of the cosmos takes place within “theogony,” and for Plato (
Tim.) through the transition from an undifferentiated primal state to…
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Religion Past and Present
Obedience
(2,323 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Bible – III. Dogmatics – IV. Education and Ethics – V. Law
I. Religious Studies Emphasis on the phenomenon known as obedience varies among religions, but wherever human beings are understood as hear…
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Religion Past and Present