Notes to Albert Schweitzer, His Concept of "Reverence for Life" and the Fifth Commandment

The theologian, musician and physician Albert Schweitzer is one of the great Persons of  modern times. But he was a big critic of modernity and even of Christianity, and tried to give his time a new ethical basis with his concept of "Reverence for Life". However, it must be revealed that his concept has certainly to do with moments of self-promotion. With his ethical concept he stands in a special relation to the Fifth Commandment "Thou shalt not kill". The more important it must be to realize, what influence had this relation in the political debates on war and peace he was engaged in. But even if it is to see that Schweitzer's conclusions remain contradictory  and even if he was not successfull to built up a perfekt ethical system, his concept of "Reverence for Life" gives an important impuls against the modern rational manipulation and exploitation of the world and for a life in God"˜s creation that is worth living

Is the dispute over the images ended?

To understand modern thinking about images it is necessary to give an historically informed account account of the function of a belief in the images - even in the current supposedly secular age. And it is to see that even in this secular age, in which reason seems to have abolished every sort of believing and faith, images have regained power over the believing and faith of the people. It can be observed that images beeing "released" from the sphere of faith in the Reformation times now are used as instruments of a new "faith", whose manipulative target is only the economic (and eventually, probably politically) exploitation of the followers of their faith

Luther zu Geld und Zins : Mit einem Vorwort über Lutherische Erwägungen zu Geld und Zins

Der vorliegende Beitrag „Luther zu Geld und Zins“ erschien erstmals ohne die zugehörigen Fußnoten in der Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft 66 (1996), S. 129-145.Dieser Ausgabe liegt das Originalmanuskript mit den zugehörigen Nachweisen zugrunde, das um ein aktuelles Vorwort über „Lutherische Erwägungen zu Geld und Zins“ ergänzt wurde.</p