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Christianity and humanism. Coluccio Salutati in the footsteps of the ancients / Ron Witt -- Christlicher Humanismus und Liturgie : Heinrich Bebel, Johannes Casselius und Leonhard Clemens verfassen Offizien zu den Festen des heiligen Hieronymus und der heiligen Anna / Volker Honemann -- Rühmende Memoria : der Zusammenhang von Verdiesseitigung und Religiosität in der Gedächtnispflege der Humanisten / Berndt Hamm -- Religion as exercitatio mentis : a case for theology as a humanist discipline / Willemien Otten -- A classicising friar at work : John of Wales' Breviloquium de virtutibus / Albrecht Diem -- Humanism and stoicism. Virtue as an end in itself : the medieval unease with a stoic idea / István P. Bejczy -- Florentius Volusenus and tranquility of mind : some applications of an ancient ideal / Alasdair A. Macdonald -- The first Christian defender of stoic virtue? : Justus Lipsius and Cicero's Paradoxa stoicorum / Jan Papy -- Coornhert on virtue and nobility / Hans and Simone Mooij-Valk -- Humanism and philosophy. The De veritate fidei christianae of Juan Luis Vives / Marcia L. Colish -- Montaigne and Christian humanism / Peter Mack -- Humanism and religion in the works of Spinoza / Fokke Akkerman -- Erasmus of Rotterdam and late medieval theologians on the doctrine of grace / Christoph Burger -- The philosophia Christi, its echoes and its repercussions on virtue and nobility / Han van Ruler -- Modern humanism as philosophical autobiography : pretending and understanding selfhood in Descartes and Fichte / Detlev Pätzold --

Both in religious and in secular culture there is an acute awareness that poverty, destitution, and misery should be eliminated, and that it is possible to achieve this goal. Despite this common aim, strategies for fighting poverty vary widely among the disciplines. This book interprets poverty in the light of Christian faith and ventures beyond the dual public-private model. Pope Francis has called on business leaders around the world to spread a new mindset in business that acknowledges the poor and the marginalized. In doing so, he deplores inequality and injustice. These concepts pose an intellectual challenge to Christian humanism, which the authors, leading scholars on the subject, take up. The book opens with a series of chapters on the economic dimensions of poverty, inequality, and injustice, and turns to the philosophical and theological aspects in its second part. Even though rigorously academic, the ideas in this book are transformative. The social market economy places the human person at the center of the economy, and it offers a model that can be implemented, under this or other names, in many parts of the world. / Dieses Buch interpretiert Armut, Ungleichheit und Ungerechtigkeit im Licht des christlichen Glaubens. Diese Begriffe fordern den christlichen Humanismus intellektuell heraus. Die Autoren greifen als führende Wissenschaftler auf diesem Gebiet diese Herausforderung auf. Das Buch beginnt mit einer Reihe von Kapiteln über die ökonomischen Dimensionen von Armut, Ungleichheit und Ungerechtigkeit und wendet sich im zweiten Teil den philosophischen und theologischen Aspekten zu. Obwohl streng akademisch fundiert, bieten die Ideen in diesem Buch zugleich eine transformative Perspektive.

Freedom, grade, and nature -- Renaissance and Rreformation -- A new england revival -- The lingering sense of sin -- Self and society -- Individualism and fellowship -- Personal integrity and general chaos -- The religion of social solidarity -- Pragmatism and idealism -- The affirmation of practical life -- The search for a higher power -- Multiplicity and unity -- From beloved community to mass society -- The transformation of sin and redemption -- The primacy of social experience -- The equalization of life -- Toward a new Christian humanism -- Religion and democracy -- Rethinking human nature -- Societies secular and sacred

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Carl Muth -- Chapter 2 Theodor Haecker -- Chapter 3 Theodor Steinbüchel -- Chapter 4 Gottlieb Söhngen -- Chapter 5 Romano Guardini -- Chapter 6 Erich Przywara -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

The Casablanca Conference -- Dramatis Personae: 1 september 1939 -- Prosper, O Lord, our righteous cause -- The humanist inheritance -- Learning in war-time -- Demons -- Force -- Interlude: other pilgrims, other paths -- The year of our Lord 1943 -- Approaching the end -- Stunde null

Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination traces the cultural backstory of contemporary conflicts between biblical literalists who oppose evolution and "New Atheists" who insist that religion is so pernicious it should be outlawed, if not exterminated. That's a clash of fundamentalisms. It's a zero-sum game derived from high Victorian misunderstanding of both religion and science. The God whom science supposedly replaces is the Engineer Almighty sitting at his keyboard, controlling every event on earth. But that's not a viable concept of God. Far better, Wallace argues, to understand Christianity in Clifford Geertz's terms as a system of symbols that both constitutes a worldview and, according to David Sloan Wilson, encourages prosocial behavior. That reframing makes it possible to reclaim what biblical scholars have said for decades: the miracles of Jesus were confrontational symbolic actions. They contradicted the political status quo in colonial Palestine, not the laws of biology. Prayer, she explains, is not magical thinking. It's a creative, highly disciplined introspective process, most familiar to many people in forms like mindfulness meditation. Wallace offers an intriguing exploration of issues that believers seldom discuss in ways that make sense to the religiously unaffiliated

The human being experiences in the depths of his being a longing for plenitude. However, pain, disease and death accompany their existence. Transhumanism tries to overcome the limits of man through all a technological scientific development and ventures to predict the definitive triumph over death. In this study, we carry out a historical journey in which we analyze the meaning of finitude and death for both transhumanism and Christian humanism, focused on the person. Transhumanism and Christianity coincide in the desire to conquer death. The understanding of the concepts studied and the means to save humanity that they are proposed differ in both approaches. We understand that in transhumanism there is a reductionism of the definition of person and therefore of the solution that it is offered to respond to the deep longing inscribed each human being.