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Im Jahr 1555 hielt der Leipziger Theologieprofessor Johann Pfeffinger eine Disputation über den freien Willen ab. In ihr betonte er, im Anschluss an die Lehre Philipp Melanchthons, dass der menschliche Wille eine Ursache bei der Rechtfertigung des Menschen sei. Diese Position wurde nach der erneuten Publikation dieser Disputation im Jahr 1558 in einem Sammelband, der alle Disputationen Pfeffingers vereinte, heftig bestritten. Im Zentrum des Synergistischen Streits (1555/58-1564) stand die Frage nach der Möglichkeit eines freien menschlichen Willens und dessen Mitwirkung im Rechtfertigungsgeschehen. Insbesondere war strittig, ob der Mensch sich für den Empfang der göttlichen Gnade vorbereiten könne, oder ob er sich vollständig passiv gegenüber dem rechtfertigenden Handeln Gottes verhalte. Der Gefahr von Spaltungen innerhalb der Gemeinwesen durch die andauernden theologischen Streitigkeiten suchte insbesondere Herzog Johann Friedrich d.M. von Sachsen teils durch Vermittlungsbemühungen, teils auch durch Zwangsmaßnahmen entgegenzuwirken, sodass es schließlich zur Entlassung von Predigern im Herzogtum kam. Im fünften Band der Edition "Controversia et Confessio" sind für den Streit bedeutsame Texte von Johann Pfeffinger, Nikolaus von Amsdorf, Victorin Strigel, Matthias Flacius, Nikolaus Gallus und anderen Theologen versammelt. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist die Präsentation des "Weimarer Konfutationsbuchs" in diesem Zusammenhang.
Investigates the analysis of visual sources and their indispensable role for understanding and interpreting religions, their symbol systems, and the wider traditions of which they are a part. This study focuses on the methodological challenge of images from a comparative perspective.
Due to the critical thinking of enlightenment and political changes, Christianity in Europe has lost the central position in society. This title analyses the interaction of mission and individual, the construction of Self and Other in the context of mission.
Thanks to the recent return to religion, the holy has become a relevant issue in public debate as concepts such as re-sacralization and re-enchantment suggest. This situation calls for a reassessment of both classical and new theories about the holy. This book deals with this topic.
Emergentism, as a metaphysical option between Reductive Physicalism and Substance Dualism, provides a space for free will to be both experientially balanced and evidentially accurate. With Emergentism, the author believes Philip Hefner's model of human being (the created co-creator) to be a valuable place to look for dialogue.
Brings together insights from religion (represented by Buddhism and Christianity) and science to address the question, What can we know about reality? In this book, science and religion engage each other in the human endeavour to understand a reality tantalizingly beyond our ability to understand fully.
Science deeply challenges classical descriptions of the human person as free and as spirit. This survey of contemporary neuroscience and evolutionary biology explores why these challenges have arisen.
Are religious spiritual experiences merely the product of the human nervous system? The author investigates the potential of contemporary neuroscience to explain religious experiences.
Includes the individual-soteric-microcosmic level or ordo salutis unfolding analogous to the redemptive-historical-macrocosmic level or historia salutis.
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