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Die lutherischen Duale
Die lutherischen Duale »Gesetz und Evangelium«, »Glaube und gute Werke«, »Alter und Neuer Bund«, »Verheißung und Erfüllung« haben eine ambivalente Geschichte: Sie dienten lutherischer Theologie, Frömmigkeit und insbesondere der Predigtkultur über fast fünf Jahrhunderte als Schlüssel zum Verstehen der Vielfalt biblischer Texte. Sie wurden jedoch häufig auch dazu verwendet, die jüdische Religion als defizitär darzustellen oder herabzuwürdigen. Die Bischofskonferenz hat darum dem Theologischen Ausschuss der VELKD den Auftrag gegeben, die Verwendung der »Duale« zu prüfen. In diesem Rahmen sind die vorliegenden Untersuchungen aus verschiedenen Fachdisziplinen zum jeweiligen Verständnis der Duale entstanden. Der Band diskutiert erhellend die theologische und existenzerschließende Bedeutung und gegenwartsorientierte Wahrnehmung der Duale, aber ebenso ihre notwendige kritische Reflexion vor dem Hintergrund des jüdisch-christlichen Dialogs.Mit Beiträgen von Christine Axt-Piscalar, Uwe Becker, Achim Behrens, Ulrich Heckel, Rochus Leonhardt, Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele.[The Lutheran »Dual Terms«]The »dual terms« Law and Gospel, Faith and Good Deeds, Old and New Covenant, Promise and Fulfilment have been central to Lutheran hermeneutics. They do have an ambivalent history: Lutheran theology, piety, and homiletics have relied on them as the key to an existential and theological understanding of biblical texts. At the same time they have been used much too often as a means to debase Jewish religion. The Bishops' Conference of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) assigned an examination of these terms and their use to the Theological Board of VELKD. The collection of essays is the result of this examination: Various disciplines of Theology give an insight into the formation, meaning and development of the "dual terms", the dangers and how to avoid them, current aesthetics to these terms and possibilities to further use them, against the background of the Jewish-Christian dialogue.- Shop: buecher
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Benjamin Franklin (eBook, ePUB)
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours. He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical -- though not most profound -- political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism.But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.- Shop: buecher
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