Secularization, Cultural Heritage and the Spirituality of the Secular State: Between Sacredness and Secularization
In: Culture and Education Ser.
Intro -- Content -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 The Presence of Theology in Culture: Theological Aspects of Immaterial Culture -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Culture and Theology as Webs of Meaning -- 1.3 Theology and Ethics as Lebensführung -- 1.4 Ethics and Culture as a Process of Humanization -- 1.5 Secularized Redemption -- 1.6 Final Remarks -- Chapter 2 The Spirituality of the Secular State: Reflections about Reconciliation in Politics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Secular State and Christian Tradition: A Process of Forgetting -- 2.3 Forgiveness, the Madness of the Impossible -- 2.4 Irreparable Guilt -- 2.5 Christian Tradition and the Laicization of Forgiveness -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Secularization and Meaning: A Discussion of Memory and Eschatology -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Memory: Lived Theological Remembrance -- 3.3 History as the Time of Salvation and the "Religion of Historians" -- 3.4 Memory and Eschatology: Interpreting the Past, Living the Present from the Perspective of the Future -- 3.5 Secularized Memory -- 3.6 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 Tolerance and Love: Is Modern Reason a Source of Intolerance? -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Historical Considerations -- 4.3 Tolerance and the State -- 4.4 Tolerance in the Context of Moral Conflicts -- 4.5 Tolerance and Christian Theology -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Kingdom of God as Inspiration for the Secular State on the Basis of Martin Luther's Conception of Politics -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Denial of the Religious Dimension as a Problem -- 5.3 The Kingdom of God on Earth in the Form of the State -- 5.4 Distinctions between Secular Government and Church in Luther -- 5.5 Temporal Rule and Clericalization of the Laity -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 God Rules the Kingdom of the World Through Human Reason: Relations and Distinctions between Faith and Politics -- 6.1 Introduction.