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Under the Spell of Freedom
How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to each other? The variety of views on this subject in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences, and the public is broad and confusing. But the grandiose synthesis in which Hegel brought together Christianity and political freedom is still an enormous source of orientation for many-despite or even because of the influential provocations of Friedrich Nietzsche. As Hans Joas shows in Under the Spell of Freedom, a different view has developed in the religious thinking of the twentieth century based on a conception of history that is more open to the future and on a concept of freedom that is richer than that of Heg...
Public Theology in the Secular State
This book gives a persuasive answer to the need for public theology today. Rudolf von Sinner can draw from a rich basis of scholarship and experience related to the topic of public theology. His clear awareness of the contextuality of public theology is the reason for his repeated assurance in this book that we cannot speak about "public theology" but always only of "a" public theology. At the same time it is very clear for him that there is also an "intercontextuality". One of the great strengths of this book is its embeddedness into an international discourse on public theology, with a special emphasis on the South-South exchange. It is a contribution to public theology scholarship in its best sense. I proudly welcome its publication in our series. (Bishop Prof. Dr Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Evangelical Church in Germany}
Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1
This is the first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy. In this major new work, Habermas sets out the ideas that inform his systematic account of the history of Western philosophy as a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking. His account goes far beyond a vindication of the enduring relevance of philosophical reflection founded on communicative reason as a source of orientation in the modern world. He contrasts this conception with prominent diagnoses of the supposed crisis of Enlightenment reason and culture that seeks redemption in the affirmation of traditional religious authority (Schmitt), the timeless validity of Greek metaphysics (Straus...
Limitations of religious freedom by privileged state religions (ecclesiae) - particularly in authoritarian states but also in democracies
The volume deals with the topic of Religious Freedom in Europe and North America, although not exclusively.The contributions argue that a clear separation of State and Church prevents privileged religions, as well as evangelical movements supported by state interests, from becoming power-political factors that seek to mould a society according to their own values and to their benefit. All too often, politicians are happy to accept ideological support on behalf of a religious community or a religious grouping, and then seek to further the interests and to promote these groups. Even though the two countries demonstrate differences such constellations may be identified in both the USA and in Russia.
Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television
This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order.
Hermeneutics of the Ban on Images, The
Recognizing both the potential of biblical prohibition of images for causing religious conflict and the promise of a more nuanced appreciation of the role of images in human experience, this book constructs a framework for understanding the place of images, and their prohibition, within the biblical text and Christian religious practice.
Christian Social Ethics
World events have made clear that liberal society must become more resilient in the face of totalitarian challenges. But how is liberal society to do that? In this groundbreaking work, social ethicist Elmar Nass presents the ethical and anthropological foundations of a liberal social order within a Christian conception of humanity and society in an ecumenical spirit. In doing so, Nass revives the long-neglected discussion on the ethics of order. Christian foundations and claims are currently confronted with alternative social-ethical concepts from other religions, traditions, and social philosophies. Nass argues that Christian social ethics has a critical role to play as it engages the world...
Religious NGOs in International Relations
Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and active in international decision-making. Among the estimated several million NGOs in existence today, an increasingly visible number of organizations are defining themselves in religious terms – referring to themselves as "religious", "spiritual", or "faith-based" NGOs. This book documents the initial encounters between the particularly international segment of those organizations and the UN while at the same time covering the Protestant and Catholic spectrum that dominated the early years of their activities in the UN-context. This book focuses on the construct...
Wissenschaftstheorie und Theologie
Wie die Theologie als Wissenschaft von Gott sich in der Gliederung ihrer Disziplinen im Spannungsfeld von Einheit und Vielfalt der Wissenschaften zu verorten hat, thematisierte Pannenberg in einer groß angelegten Monografie, die 1973 erschienen ist. 50 Jahre danach werden Beiträge zu "Wissenschaftstheorie und Theologie" vorgelegt, die anlässlich des 9. Pannenberg-Kolloquiums in der Münchner Hochschule für Philosophie gehalten wurden. Es referierten Winfried Löffler, Jürgen Werbick, Christoph Poetsch, Paul Schroffner, Dirk Ansorge, Harald Matern, Felix Körner, Georg Sans, Friederike Nüssel, Josef Schmidt, Thomas Oehl und Gunther Wenz.
Gesten der Entscheidung
Inwiefern ist Corneilles Theater Theater der Entscheidung? In sechs Fallanalysen untersucht Christian Reidenbachs Studie die kanonischen Bühnendichtungen der Jahre 1636 bis 1643 nach den Verfahren der Ideengeschichte: Materialreiche Bezüge ins politische Denken der Zeit machen in den Dramentexten das dezisionistische Leitmotiv einer Entscheidung in kontingenter Ausgangslage sichtbar. Nachweisbar wird dabei, dass im Medium des Stücks die Handlungsmacht des Herrschers mit jener des Helden und des Dichters in spannungsvolle Konkurrenz tritt; Figuren wie Rodrigue, Horace und Polyeucte entfalten ihre außerordentliche Entscheidungskompetenz nur vorübergehend in einem Gefüge vielfältiger Sou...
