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Social Ethics between Universality and Specificity: Outline of a Chalcedonian Social Ethic 1
Author(s) -
Nissen Ulrik Becker
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6385.2011.00657.x
Subject(s) - universality (dynamical systems) , epistemology , sociology , social reality , motif (music) , social psychology , environmental ethics , social science , philosophy , psychology , aesthetics , physics , quantum mechanics
: In Lutheran ethics the Chalcedonian notion of the communication of properties ( communicatio idiomatum ) plays an important role in understanding the paradoxical relation between the reality of God and the reality of the world. This motif also plays an important role for Martin Luther and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In a contemporary context the Chalcedonian understanding substantiates a differentiated unity between universality and specificity with regard to the foundation of a Lutheran social ethic.