Search results for "Protestantism"
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Da movimento ereticale a chiesa riformata: una lettura del valdismo attraverso le sue confessioni di fede
2020
Este artículo tiene por objeto analizar el encuentro entre Valdismo y Reforma, y la trasformación del movimiento herético medieval en iglesia reformada a través del examen de dos confesiones de fe: la Declaración del Sínodo de Chanforan (1532), por medio de la cual se determina la incorporación de los valdenses a la Reforma, y la Confesión de fe valdense de 1655, en la que podemos relevar los rasgos de una iglesia ya claramente definida, provista de una doctrina, una organización y una disciplina eclesiástica marcadamente protestantes.
Emblemas del papado. La representación del vicio en la propaganda protestante alemana del siglo XVI
2016
ABSTRACT: Those of the Wittenberg Circle who had undergone reformation continually submitted their criticisms to the Papacy throughout the sixteenth century. They saw in this institution one of the principal evils of the Catholic Churchn which they saw one of the principal males of the Catholic Church. As a result, they identified the Papacy ad nauseam with the Antichrist and with cardinal sins such as lust, gluttony, greed or pride. This article thus analyzes diverse aberrant ways of depicting the Papacy in order to evaluate the importance and meaning of this identification as part of the political-religious polemics and of the phenomenon of the propaganda of the convulsed period of the P…
Ceļš: Teoloģisks un kultūrvēsturisks rakstu krājums. Nr.48
1996
1996. g. pasaule atzīmēja 450 gadu atceri, kopš no šīs pasaules šķīries Dr. M. Luters. Lasītājam piedāvāti vēsturnieku un filozofu, nevis teologu, ieskati par vēsturiskām pārmaiņām, kuras ietekmēja M. Lutera Reformācija Latvijā.
Religion and the Scandinavian Welfare State: Public Support for Socio-economic Rights in Times of Migration
2020
The theme of this article is the legitimisation of social and economic rights within the context of the Scandinavian welfare state. This problem has become more prominent in the light of the recent influx of immigrants from countries in the Middle East and Africa dominated by other religious and cultural traditions than Lutheran Protestantism. Two questions are discussed in the article. First, what role has religion played vis-a-vis the development of the welfare states in Scandinavia? Second, in what ways have recent immigration trends influenced popular support for welfare provision and social rights?
From Protest to Power: The Rise of the DUP
2018
In 2006, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) performed the most spectacular political turnaround in Northern Irish political history. The party worked against any Irish dimension in Northern Irish politics but took up power with Sinn Fein (SF) after the St Andrews agreement. This chapter discusses how the DUP emerged as the leading unionist party. The unionist ‘zero-sum-game’ went in favour of the DUP, but what motivated this political change in the unionist community? This chapter traces how the DUP moved from being a party of clear opposition to becoming a party of power. How did the party increase its electoral support while they at the same time manoeuvred themselves into a negotiating …
Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life
2005
Quentin Skinner’s thesis ‘that political life itself sets the main problems for the political theorist’ marks a turning point in the study of the history of political thought. The Protestant princes who revised Luther’s doctrine of disobedience in order to save Lutheranism as a political force are the best example of this ‘Skinnerian revolution’ in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. This is in accordance with his claim that principles play a legitimating and innovating role in politics. A tacit implication of the thesis is that we should not only read theorists as politicians but also read politicians as theorists. The politician possesses a special competence in discerning betwe…
Hugo Grotius – Individual Rights as the Core of Natural Law
2014
The Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius’ status as an important forerunner of the Enlightenment is well recognized, bolstered by his famous etiamsi daremus-dictum in the Prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis. Less well known is that Grotius was the first central Protestant thinker to redefine the concept of ius, so that it was understood as individual or subjective rights. His understanding of ius as a personal moral quality, which he subsequently delimits as the expletive justice or perfect right to one’s own (suum), was given a pivotal role in his system of natural law. These concepts of ius and suum, which Grotius differentiates from other rationally derived moral principles, inspired John Locke…
La tesis de Weber en torno al capitalismo en el 500 Aniversario de la Reforma Protestante
1970
La tesis de Weber respecto a una hipotética huella del protestantismo en el «espíritu» del capitalismo ha sido ampliamente difundida. Sin desmerecer su planteamiento (la indemostrabilidad no resta verosimilitud), lo cierto es que, siendo una hipótesis difícilmente falsable, de ella han derivado formulaciones poco cuidadosas que vendrían a justificar las actuales circunstancias económicas con hechos religiosos diferenciales. Siendo la religión un hecho omniabarcador sin igual, tales circunstancias dependen de muchos factores. Se ha pretendido conferirle validez científica a partir de datos socioeconómicos de lo más variado. Algo aplicable también a quienes pretenden refutarle. La intoxicació…
"Los granicznej krainy". Śląsk Cieszyński w socjologicznej refleksji Jana Szczepańskiego
2021
The article is an attempt to reconstruct the image of Cieszyn Silesia contained in the works of Jan Szczepański. The author presents the most important elements of the image of Silesia (the Polish part of Silesia, i.e. the Silesian Voivodeship at that time) drawn by Szczepański in the interwar period, and the image of Cieszyn Silesia in the post-war period. In his opinion, the essence of Silesian reality is conflict and struggle. Treating Cieszyn Silesia as a borderland area with a strongly outlined cultural, religious (Protestant) and aesthetic distinctiveness, he argues about its Polishness, emphasizing that it is a misunderstood region in Poland. The author believes that in Jan Szczepańs…
The history of census of cripples (“Reichskrüppelzählung”)
2000
The census of cripples ("Reichskruppelzahlung") in the German Reich plays a central role in the development of orthopaedic surgery. Local censuses conducted by protestant ministers had already pointed out the great number of disabled children without appropriate care. It was the achievement of Konrad Biesalski, who was an orthopaedic surgeon, and of Eduard Dietrich, a Prussian government official, that a nation-wide census for disabled people was conducted. The concerns of the Reich-health-administration, which had complained about the way the survey was to be made, were neglected. These concerns were not all unjustified. Both the planning of the census itself and the technical interpretati…