The contributions of this volume are written from a historical perspective and look at the specific form the relationship between church and state took in three different countries, with special attention being paid to their respective strengths and weaknesses.The separation of church and state is one of the most important advances of modern times. Yet Germany, France and the United States took very different routes to achieving this. The present situation is full of questions that were approached in the papers given at the 14th Dietrich Bonhoeffer Lecture Series 2010 in Mainz and were answered from various perspectives. How and for what reason did these very different models come to be? What are their respective strengths and weaknesses? More recently, these questions have again cropped up in the discussion surrounding the role of Islam in Western societies.
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9783525101117
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2012-07-18
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
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G, 01
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Dr. phil. theol. habil. Irene Dingel ist Direktorin des Leibniz-Instituts fÃ"r Europäische Geschichte, Abteilung fÃ"r Abendländische Religionsgeschichte, Mainz. Dr. theol. Christiane Tietz is professor of systematic theology at the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich. Prof. Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls Systematische Theologie und theologische Gegenwartsfragen an der Universität Bamberg, Dekan der Fakultät Humanwissenschaften und Leiter der Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Forschungsstelle fÃ"r Ãffentliche Theologie. Dr. theol. Christiane Tietz is professor of systematic theology at the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich. Prof. Dr. Hans Michael Heinig ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls fÃ"r Ãffentliches Recht, insbes. Kirchen- und Staatskirchenrecht an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Wolfgang Huber is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Engaged in both church and politics, he has served on numerous boards of ethics and public policy, as a professor of theology in the universities of Marburg and Heidelberg, and as Bishop of Berlin-Brandenburg from 1993 to 2009. His many published works range from medical and political ethics to political philosophy and theology.