Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic a…
Why was the story of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent so important to medieval literary culture? Eric Jager argues that during the Middle Ages the story of the Fall was incorporated into a comprehensive myth about language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Jager shows how patristic a…
"This book raises in a new way a central question of Christology: what is the divine motive for the incarnation? Throughout Christian history, a majority of Western theologians have agreed that God's decision to become incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ was made necessary b…
Sündenfall der Künste?: Richard Wagner, der Nationalsozialismus und die F…
by Diskurs Bayreuth, Symposium Wagner im Nationalsozialismus - zur Frage des Sündenfalls in der Kunst, Symposium Oper ohne Wagner? Musik ohne Oper? - Die Situation der Künste nach der "Stunde Null" und in der Neuorientierung der 1950er-Jahre
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Wurde Richard Wagners Werk für die Zwecke des Nationalsozialismus 'nur' benutzt, oder waren seine Kompositionen und Schriften mitverantwortlich für die Entwicklung dieser rassistisch-nationalistischen Ideologie? Ist der "Sündenfall" Wagners Kunst eingeschrieben? Wem 'gehört' Wag…
Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions - conflicts between metaphysics and metaphysics. Hud Hudson provides a two-stage illustration of this claim with respect to …