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The Polity of Christ

Studies on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Chalcedonian Christology and Ethics

By: Ulrik Nissen

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The Polity of Christ

Studies on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Chalcedonian Christology and Ethics

By: Ulrik Nissen

Ulrik Nissen addresses the difficulty that contemporary theology faces in trying to find a way to maintain both all the shared goods we cherish as political beings, and the call for Christians to be a particular people in the world and bear witness to Christ. Nissen stresses that Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christological ethics allows for a polemical unity between the reality of the world and the reality of God, reconciled in the reality of Christ. Based on a series of case studies that provide a point of departure for a robust reshaping of Christian humanism and responsibility, Nissen reads Bonhoeffer's ethics in the light of both his Lutheran heritage and contemporary challenges, highlighting the importance of his thought for political theology. By demonstrating the significant influence of Lutheran and Chalcedonian Christology in contemporary ethics, Nissen provides a robust argument for a love of the common reality we share as human beings, and a call for Christians to bear witness to Christ in the public world.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567691608

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9780567691606

National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

By: Ulrik Pram Gad

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National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

By: Ulrik Pram Gad

Greenland views itself as being on the way to sovereignty. This image – and the tensions involved in it – structure the triangular relation between the EU, Greenland and Denmark. The central Other of Greenland has for a couple of centuries been Denmark, the colonial overlord. The national identity discourses of Greenland and Denmark both idealize national homogeneity. A central condition for a continuation of Rigsfællesskabet, the 'community of the realm' including Greenland and Denmark, is the idea that Greenland still needs external assistance in its development towards independence - and that this idea can be formulated in a way which does not infantilize Greenland metaphorically. As part of the postcolonial diversification of Greenland's dependency, the bilateral relation between Denmark and Greenland has gradually been opened up to involve 'other others'. Meanwhile, a discourse prognosticates that climate change is opening up the Arctic to minerals extraction and commerce. In these circumstances, the triangular relation with the EU is played out as a series of rhetorical and practical 'sovereignty games', in Nuuk, Copenhagen and Brussels. Particularly, a number of strategies are employed to minimize the apparent role of Denmark for the Greenlandic relations to the EU. The book approaches these changes in national identity discourse and practical foreign policy in five analytical steps: The core concepts organizing Danish and Greenlandic identity are identified in discourse analyses. Political debates are read as political identity negotiations. The practical diplomatic management of clashing identity discourses is uncovered via qualitative interviews with key actors (politicians, diplomats, and civil servants from Greenland, Denmark and the EU). Legal texts are approached as the 'frozen' outcome of rhetorical and practical sovereignty games. Finally, the book develops scenarios for the future and concludes by pointing out how the continuation of the community of the realm may have a better chance if conceived as an 'ever looser union'. One way for Denmark of facilitating this image would be to employ its diplomacy in the service of diversifying Greenland's dependence - following the example set in relation to the EU.

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8763545020

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The World's First Full Press Freedom

The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770–1773

By: Ulrik Langen,Frederik Stjernfelt

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The World's First Full Press Freedom

The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770–1773

By: Ulrik Langen,Frederik Stjernfelt

The book charts an extraordinary period in Danish history: the "Press Freedom Period" of 1770-73, in which King Christian 7's physician J.F. Struensee introduced a series of radical enlightenment reforms beginning with the total abolishment of censorship. The book investigates the sudden avalanche of pamphlets and debates, initiating the modern public sphere of Denmark-Norway. Publications show a surprising variety, from serious political, economic, and philosophical treatises over criticism, polemics, ridicule, entertainment, and to spin campaigns, obscenities, libel, threats. A successful coup against Struensee led to his subsequent public execution in Copenhagen, and the latter half of the period saw the gradual smothering of the new public sphere as well as an international pamphlet storm over what was happening in Denmark. Readers all over Europe proved curious to learn about the radical experiment with enlightened absolutism in Denmark; interest was heightened by the involvement of the Danish Queen, the English princess Caroline Matilda to whom Struensee had an intimate relation. The book is a detailed portrayal of a seminal event in the development of the public sphere in Europe.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110771802

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9783110771800

The Polity of Christ

Studies on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Chalcedonian Christology and Ethics

By: Ulrik Nissen

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The Sources of Public Morality

On the Ethics and Religion Debate : Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Societas Ethica in Berlin, August 2001

By: European Society for Research in Ethics. Conference

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The Sources of Public Morality

On the Ethics and Religion Debate : Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Societas Ethica in Berlin, August 2001

By: European Society for Research in Ethics. Conference

The sources of public morality are an increasingly pressing issue within philosophical and theological ethics. This book presents essays, covering a broad spectrum of the various aspects of this problematic question, by some of the leading scholars in the field. The essays address various approaches and traditions. Most were first presented as lectures at a Societas Ethica conference in Berlin during August 2001; others are presented here for the first time. Sven Andersen teaches systematic theology at Aarhus University, Denmark, Centre for Bioethics. Ulrich Nissen teaches systematic theology at Aarhus University. Lars Reuter teaches systematic theology at Aarhus University.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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382586460X

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National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

By: Ulrik Pram Gad

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Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

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The Polity of Christ

The Polity of Christ

National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

The World's First Full Press Freedom

The World's First Full Press Freedom

The Polity of Christ

The Polity of Christ

The Sources of Public Morality

The Sources of Public Morality

National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games

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