Neo-orthodoxy is an approach to theology that was developed in the aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918). It is primarily associated with the Swiss Protestant Karl Barth (1886-1968). The other significant theologians in this movement were Emil Brunner (1899-1966) and Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976). Some theologians believe that Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) did more to introduce Barthian neo-orthodoxy to America than anyone else. The neo-orthodox thinkers had strong disagreements between themselves and so neo-orthodoxy canno ...

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The Binding of Isaac, in Genesis 22, is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah. To many readers the tale is one of the most challenging, complex, mystifying, and perhaps ethically troublesome episodes in the entire Bible. The story is referred to as the Akedah or Akedat Yitschak (עקידת יצחק) in Hebrew (the binding of Isaac) and as the Dhabih in Arabic. Abraham agrees to God's command without argument, even though God gives him no reason fo ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1855 - Events. January 1 - London, Ontario is incorporated as a city. January 23 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. January 23 - The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand was hit by the s ...

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Copenhagen is one of only three Danish municipalities which do not belong to any of the Counties of Denmark— the others are Frederiksberg and Bornholm. The municipality covers an area of 88 km², and has a total population of 502,362 (2005). Lord Mayor of Copenhagen is Lars Engberg, a member of the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) political party, who is head of the Finance Committee. Other mayors are Martin Geertsen (Cultural and Recreational Committee), Per Bregengaard (Education and Youth Committee), Inger Marie Bruun ...

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Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Copenhagen Municipality, Copenhagen - History of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Geography, Copenhagen - Culture, Copenhagen - Sport, Copenhagen - Cuisine, Copenhagen - Transportation, Copenhagen - Places of note in or near Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Famous Copenhageners

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The distinction between continental and analytic philosophy is relatively recent, probably dating from the early twentieth century. The break in the philosophical tradition which it claims to recognize, however, dates back a century earlier to Immanuel Kant, the last major philosopher to be indisputably significant to both traditions. Analytic philosophy has traditionally been less interested in the German philosophers of the nineteenth century who followed Kant. These included foremost the German Idealists, such as Schelling and Hegel, and ...

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Continental philosophy, Continental philosophy - History, Continental philosophy - Continental philosophy in English-speaking countries, Continental philosophy - Differences from analytic philosophy, Continental philosophy - References and further reading

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The word boredom first appeared in the English language in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House, published in 1852, where Dickens wrote of Lady Dedlock's "chronic malady of boredom". Bore, bored, and boring, in the sense used here, all appear somewhat earlier: bore first appears as a generic noun, meaning the malady or experience of boredom, in a letter of the Earl of March in 1766 (the same year also in a letter of G.J. Williams meaning one who suffers from boredom, specifically referr ...

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Boredom, Boredom - Literature, Boredom - The arts

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The question "What is God?" is sometimes also phrased as "What is the meaning of the word 'God'?" Most philosophers expect some sort of definition as an answer to this question, but they are not content simply to describe the way the word is used: they want to know the essence of what it means to be God. Western philosophers typically concern themselves with the God of monotheistic religions (see the nature of God in Western theology), but discussions also c ...

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Philosophy of religion, Philosophy of religion - Philosophy of religion as a part of metaphysics, Philosophy of religion - Questions asked in philosophy of religion, Philosophy of religion - What is God?, Philosophy of religion - Monotheistic definitions, Philosophy of religion - Polytheistic definitions, Philosophy of religion - Pantheistic definitions, Philosophy of religion - Rationality of belief, Philosophy of religion - Positions, Philosophy of religion - Natural theology, Philosophy of religion - Major philosophers of religion

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Christian anarchism, Christian anarchism - Fall of the Roman Empire, Christian anarchism - The Reformation, Christian anarchism - Other trends towards anarchism, Christian anarchism - Nonconformism, Christian anarchism - Restorationism, Christian anarchism - The Doukhobors, Christian anarchism - Catholic Worker Movement, Christian anarchism - Spirituality, Christian anarchism - Anarchist Biblical views and principles, Christian anarchism - Biblical passages cited by anarchists, Christian anarchism - Anarchist Biblical interpretations, Christian anarchism - Quotes, Christian anarchism - Thinkers, Christian anarchism - Søren Kierkegaard, Christian anarchism - Henry David Thoreau, Christian anarchism - Leo Tolstoy, Christian anarchism - Nikolai Berdyaev, Christian anarchism - Ammon Hennacy, Christian anarchism - Jacques Ellul, Christian anarchism - Thomas J. Hagerty, Christian anarchism - Other Christian anarchists, Christian anarchism - Criticism, Christian anarchism - Organisations, Christian anarchism - Reference

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Christian humanism is first of all a movement for widened learning that emerged out of the Renaissance and was brought by devoted Christians to the study of the philological sources of the Greek New Testament. This project was undertaken at the time of the Reformation in the work of Erasmus of Rotterdam (who remained a Catholic), Martin Luther (who was an Augustinian priest and led the Evangelical Reformation, translating the Scriptures into his native German), and John Calvin (who was a student of law and theology at the Sorbonne where he b ...

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Christian humanism, Christian humanism - Selected Humanist Teachings of Jesus, Christian humanism - The Second Great Commandment, Christian humanism - Unto the Least, Christian humanism - Literary criticism, Christian humanism - Prominent Christian humanists, Christian humanism - Sources

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In the 8th century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse, had undergone some changes and evolved into Old Norse. This language began to undergo new changes that did not spread to all of Scandinavia, which resulted the appearance of two similar dialects, Old West Norse (Norway and Iceland) and Old East Norse (Denmark and Sweden). Old East Norse is in Sweden called Runic Swedish and in Denmark Runic Danish, but until the 12th century, the dialect was the same in the two countries. The dial ...

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Danish language, Danish language - Classification and related languages, Danish language - History, Danish language - Geographical distribution, Danish language - Dialects, Danish language - Sound system, Danish language - Vowels, Danish language - Consonants, Danish language - Grammar, Danish language - Vocabulary, Danish language - Numerals, Danish language - Writing system

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Angst, in contemporary connotative use, most often describes the intense frustration and other related emotions of teenagers and the mood of the music with which they identify. Punk rock, grunge, emo, and virtually any Alternative Rock dramatically combining elements of discord, melancholy and excitement may be said to assert angst. There is an obvious connection to this music and the various subjugation of its proponent youth or racial or sociopolitical minority sub ...

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Angst, Angst - Angst in contemporary music

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There are a variety of Christian apologetic styles and schools of thought. In the Thomistic or Classical apologetics tradition philosophical arguments for God's existence are emphasized before turning to the specific case for Christian revelation claims. In the Evidentialist tradition empirical arguments about the life, miracles, death and resurrection of Christ are presented as probabilistic proofs. The Presuppositional tradition argues that belief in God must be presupposed, and from that vantage point non-theistic assumptions are proven to be fa ...

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Apologetics, Apologetics - Colloquial usage, Apologetics - Technical usages, Apologetics - Intellectual and social function of religious apologetics, Apologetics - Varieties of Christian apologetics, Apologetics - Early Church, Apologetics - Medieval to post-Reformation era, Apologetics - Modern era, Apologetics - Apologetics in world religions, Apologetics - Bibliography

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This sort of fideism has a long history in Christianity. It can plausibly be argued as an interpretation of 1 Corinthians, wherein Paul says: For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe . . . For the foolishness of God is wiser than (the wisdom of) men (1 Cor. 1:21, 25) Paul's contrast of the folly of the Gospel with earthly wisdom may relate to a statement made Jesus himself, recorded in Luke 10:21:

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Fideism, Fideism - The logic of fideism, Fideism - Fideism in Christianity, Fideism - Tertullian and fideism, Fideism - Blaise Pascal and fideism, Fideism - Kierkegaard and fideism, Fideism - Fideism and presuppositional apologetics, Fideism - Theologies opposed to fideism, Fideism - Fideism rejected by the Roman Catholic Church, Fideism - The Christological argument in Protestantism, Fideism - Fideism in Islam, Fideism - External link

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In religious contexts, "faith" has several different meanings. Sometimes, it means loyalty to one's religion. It is in the latter sense in which one can speak of, for example, "the Catholic faith" or "the Islamic faith." For creedal religions, faith also means that one accepts the religious tenets of the religion as true. For non-creedal religions, faith often means that one is loyal to a particular religious community. In general, faith means being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see with your ...

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The origin of Denmark is lost in prehistory. The oldest Danevirke is from the 7th century, at the same time as the new Runic alphabet. Oldest city: Ribe is from about 810. Up into the 10th century the Danes were known as Vikings, together with Norwegians and Swedes, colonising, raiding and trading in all parts of Europe. Viking explorers first discovered Iceland by accident in the ninth century, en route to the Faroe Islands. Erik the Red, or Erik Thorvaldson, was exiled from the colony for manslaughter in 980, and set sail for the we ...

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Denmark, Denmark - History, Denmark - Politics and government, Denmark - Counties, Denmark - Geography, Denmark - Economy, Denmark - Demographics, Denmark - Culture, Denmark - Miscellaneous topics

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Metaphysical subjectivism is the theory that perception creates reality, and that there is no underlying, true reality that exists independent of perception. One can also hold that it is consciousness rather than perception that creates reality. This is in contrast to metaphysical objectivism. This holding should not be confused with the stance that "all is illusion" or that "there is no such thing as reality." Metaphysical subjectivists hold that reality is real enough, and that physical objects do exist. They conceive, however, that the nature of reality as related to a given c ...

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Subject philosophy, Subject philosophy - Epistemic subjectivity, Subject philosophy - Subjectivism, Subject philosophy - Metaphysical subjectivism, Subject philosophy - Subjectivism and panpsychism, Subject philosophy - Criticisms, Subject philosophy - Ethical subjectivism, Subject philosophy - Subjectivism in probability

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The majority of Jewish Biblical commentators argue that God was testing Abraham to see if he would actually kill his own son, as a test of his loyalty. However, a number of Jewish Biblical commentators from the medieval era, and many in the modern era, do not agree with this notion. They read the text in another way. The early rabbinic midrash Genesis Rabbah quotes God as saying "I never considered telling Abraham to slaughter Isaac (using the Hebrew root letters for "slaughter", not "sacrifice"). Rabbi Yona Ibn Janach (Spain, ...

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Binding of Isaac, Binding of Isaac - Jewish responses, Binding of Isaac - Christian responses, Binding of Isaac - Muslim responses, Binding of Isaac - Modern-day interpretations, Binding of Isaac - The near-sacrifice in art, Binding of Isaac - The near-sacrifice in literature, Binding of Isaac - The near-sacrifice in music, Binding of Isaac - The near-sacrifice in film

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The first volume, the "Either", describes the "aesthetic" phase of existence. It takes the form of many tangential aphorisms and musings on the aesthetic mode of life, which are labelled 'Diapsalmata'. The word 'diapsalmata' is related to 'psalms', and means "refrains". In this section Kierkegaard's character evaluates the Mozart's Don Giovanni (in the essay "The Immediate Erotic Stages") and Goethe, and examines the concept of 'First Love' as a pinnacle for the aestheticist, using his idiosyncratic concepts of 'closedness' (indesluttethed in Danish) ...

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Either/Or, Either/Or - Either, Either/Or - Or, Either/Or - Interpretation

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Denmark has a rich cultural and intellectual heritage. The astronomical discoveries of Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and the brilliant contributions to atomic physics of Niels Bohr (1885-1962) indicate the range of Danish scientific achievement. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75), the philosophical essays of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55), and the short stories of Karen Blixen (penname Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962) have earned international recognition, as have the symphonies of Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). Danish applied art and industria ...

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Culture of Denmark, Culture of Denmark - Cultural Achievements, Culture of Denmark - Cultural Policy, Culture of Denmark - Sport

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