Luther’s denials (in his on Romans) of the natural capacity to acquire moral virtues rest on three assumptions. (1) Virtue requires the pursuit of virtuous action for its own sake. In the state of sin, human aims and motives are all controlled by self-love. Insofar as aims and motives are controlled by self-love, they are sinful and contrary to the demands of morality. Any aspiration to virtue of character, therefore, is misguided, given the dominance of self-love in the state of sin. This selective endorsement of some eudaemonist and some anti-eudaemonist claims about virtue and motivation results in an unstable position. Luther does not vindicate his claim that everyone is naturally incapable of moral virtue, because everyone is naturally dominated by self-love.
This paper seeks to explore the role of virtues in the context of management from a religious perspective. Its objective is to shed some light on the significance of Martin Luther's anthropology and theology of justification for a modern understanding of practical wisdom. The paper reviews some p...
In articulating a theological account of Christian hope faithful to its objective character, Pope Benedict XVI summons the authority of Thomas Aquinas, citing his comments on faith and hope as those terms occur in Hebrews 11:Benedict sets off Aquinas's understanding of hope-filled faith's objecti...
The purpose of this article is to present an image of Martin Luther viewed through the lens of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. The primary focus of the article will be on Luther's articulation of the universal priesthood as it was presented in the 1520 treatise "To the Christian Nobility of the ...
This article explores the ministry of service and love of neighbour exercised by Katharina Schutz Zell, wife of the Strasbourg Reformer Matthias Zell, focusing on Schutz Zell's theological justification for her ministry and her attempts to help those around her to understand their suffering in te...
A lipid membrane is a main component of biological membranes. Contemporary bionanotechnologies use phospholipids and ceramides as basic components of drugs and cosmetic preparations. Phospholipids-based nanoparticles are used as drug carriers. Effective development of bionanotechnologies in Russi...
This paper (This work is done in the research laboratory of Prof. Dr. Hans-Michael Hanisch at the Martin Luther University in Germany, and it is supported by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in Germany under the reference TUN1127196STP.) deals with automatic reconfigurations of safe embedded...
The return to religion in contemporary continental philosophy is characterized by a profound sense of intellectual humility. A significant influence within this discussion is Heidegger's anthropology of finitude in Being and Time and his later critiques of onto-theology. These critiques, however,...
This article examines the use of lexical bundles-repeated word groups of differing lengths-in two German Bible translations and analyzes their use in relation to the comparative readability of the two texts. The texts included in this study are the four Gospels and the book of Acts in Martin Luth...
To evaluate the role of the preocular riboflavin film in ultraviolet-A (UVA) absorption in corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL). Eye Laser Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany.The absorption of UVA light was measured in human donor and porcine postmortem...
There were two prevailing sentiments in Europe after the Reformation: One opposing papal authority and one advocating individual freedom. This paper analyzes these two sentiments and finds that the concept of conscience is crucial in understanding them. The issue of conscience is about judging tr...
