Secularization, Cultural Heritage and the Spirituality of the Secular State

Between Sacredness and Secularization
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-506-70260-9
Verlag: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh

Buch, Englisch, 119 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 234 g

Reihe: Culture and education

The purpose of this study about theological aspects of culture and social ethics is to investigate the relation between the theological tradition arising from Luther and the cultural immateriality which is culturally expressed in material progress and work. It is necessary to remember that it was Protestant theology itself that enabled this secularization process. Protestantism and modernity with its secularization proposal are processes that condition one another. Paul Tillich calls modernity and secularization the “Protestant Era” in the context of the Western culture of economic progress. It was mainly the theological tradition of the Enlightenment that separated the kingdom of the right from the kingdom of the left, law and gospel, creation and redemption, in such a way that the scope of creation became so autonomous that it dismissed the justification through the work of Christ, the gospel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westphal, Euler Renato

Weitere Mitwirkende

Koerrenz, Ralf

Slinn, Hazel

Behrens, Roger

Dickel, Mirka

Friesen, Norm

Lautensach, Alexander

Westphal, Euler Renato

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Theokratische und religiöse Ideologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Über Autor(innen)

Euler Renato Westphal is Professor of bioethics and cultural studies at Univille University and Professor of systematic theology at Faculdade Luterana de Teologia in São Bento do Sul, Brazil.