Daily bread 09/01/2017

• Travel agency, hotels, flights and holidays | Destinia

  tags: travel

• Can reason make room for religion in public life? | Aeon Ideas

  • theological and political worldviews are competing discourses
  • hermeneutics
  • pantheism
  • For Schleiermacher, the religious and the political realms did not simply compete over the same terrain. Rather, he saw them as distinctive yet constituent parts of the bigger whole of an individual life.
  • But religion was still the ‘highest’ and most essential of these two parts
  • Unlike politics, religion is a matter of feeling (Gefühl) and intuition;
  • praxis
  • ‘universal’ aspect of being human, something for which we have the capacity, according to our very nature.
  • We are creatures among other creatures, mere tiny parts of nature’s great organism
  • All of our thoughts, he argued, are conditioned by our circumstances: the language we speak, where we’re from, the community roles we have.
  • Our existence is instead given to us, he maintained, from a transcendent, eternal and infinite source.
  • According to Schleiermacher, then, to be religious is to recognise that human beings are not the ultimate authors of their own existence,
  • the work of the church belongs instead to the domain of the spirit.
  • didn’t believe in theocracy or religious states.
  • he argued for the separation of church and state,
  • religion really belongs to the institution of the family.
  • ‘How do we live together?’

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