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| Secularization: Secularization or the separation of church and state is the legal and philosophical principle that maintains a distinction between religious institutions and governmental entities. It ensures that the state does not favor or endorse any particular religion. See also Religion, religious belief, Christian Church, Impartiality, Society, State, Society, Institutions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Karl Barth on Secularization - Dictionary of Arguments
Brocker I 233 Secularization/Barth: Barth's thesis: legitimate theological knowledge may derive exclusively from the self-revelation of God in Jesus Christ, as understood as a process of language, as it is testifyied in the Bible. Brocker I 234 BarthVsSecularization: Barth rejected any basic theoretical connection to classically modern human rights or contract theories as a "secular message" and the attempt to "build a church of human rights"(1). >Church/Barth, >State, >Rule of Law/Barth, >Rule of Law, >Society. Brocker I 235 State/Church/Barth: "church" and "state" are basically understood by Barth as two fields of (individual and above all) collective action, each following constitutive rules and thus generating two different forms of communitization. Church/Barth: Barth Thesis: In view of his concrete practice and form of execution, ecclesial action as a whole is to be thought of as "proclamation", that is, as the human, namely linguistic-performative correspondence to God's action, which necessarily aims at universal communication and free communitization. Brocker I 237 Two-Realms-Doctrine/BarthVsLuther/BarthVsReformers: a merely paratactic "two-realms-doctrine" of church and state, as it is represented in significant parts of modern Lutheran theology in Germany from Barth's point of view, would work into the hands of an autonomous modern state of power in the sense of Frederick the Great, Bismarck and finally Hitler, which dispenses with ethical self-commitment. See Barth, 1945 (2). 1. Karl Barth, Rechtfertigung und Recht, in: Theologische Studien 1, Zollikon 1938. Karl Barth, Rechtfertigung und Recht, in: ders., Rechtfertigung und Recht, Christengemeinde und Bürgergemeinde, Evangelium und Gesetz, Zürich 1998, S. 8. 2.Karl Barth, Eine Schweizer Stimme. 1938-1945, Zollikon-Zürich 1945 S. 113f, 382-413. Georg Pfleiderer, „Karl Barth, Rechtfertigung und Recht 1938)“ in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Barth, Karl Brocker I Manfred Brocker Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19