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English summary: Increasing freedom in pluralistic societies often goes hand in hand with emerging constraints. This book analyses today's situation and develops new ideas for how the religions can live together peacefully. German text. German description: Im Gegensatz zu Gesellschaftsanalysen Ende des 20. Jh., die eine Ausweitung der Freiheit in allen gesellschaftlichen Lebensbereichen beobachteten, stellen sich zu Beginn des 21. Jh. vermehrt religiose, okonomische, wissenschaftliche und politische Zwange ein, die die Freiheit des Einzelnen beschneiden. Ausgehend von Analysen zur gegenwartigen pluralistischen Gesellschaft und dem Verhaltnis der Religionen untereinander werden von renommierten internationalen Wissenschaftlern Freiheitskonzepte aus verschiedenen religiosen Traditionen vorgestellt, angesichts der These von der Infragestellung der Freiheit durch die Neurowissenschaften verteidigt und in verschiedenen lokalen Kontexten Europas untersucht. Abschliessend wird die konkrete Praxis der Freiheit in der Verfassungsdebatte der EU, medizinethischen und seelsorglichen Themenfeldern besprochen.

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The theme of this volume is the question of value-perception. It is discussed from different philosophical, psychiatric, theological, and anthropological perspectives. The thesis that unites all the papers is the recognition that we live in a relational, dynamic world, in which we primarily perceive, and that to dissolve values from facts is fundamentally misleading, both in theory as in life. The contributions are the outcome of an energetic conference in 2016 where the problems at stake were rigorously discussed. The results are presented here, and they have an explicit order and are strictly related. It opens with basic questions and observations, then critical opinions and objections come into play, after which the outline of a larger theory of value perception is presented, and at the end some concrete examples from material practices are drawn.

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This volume contains the results of research into the dialogue between theology and biology, particularly neuroscience and evolutionary theory. With regard to neuroscience, the representational paradigm is abandoned in favor of the ecological brain theory, which understands the brain as an organ of resonance between the living body and its surrounding environment. In relation to theological epistemology, this account not only leads to fruitful convergences, but also shows that revelation, as perception of Gods triune presence in creation, has to be understood as a resonating and non extra-ordinary or general kind of perception, instead of being a special interpretation of experiences that are beyond the ordinary. With regard to the theory of evolution, the Neodarwinian paradigm is expanded with the help of the theory of niche-construction, in which the relationship between organisms and their environment is understood to be reciprocally resonating. This new and emerging paradigm in biology fits to a relational-narrative theological ontology, in which the relationship between the life of the triune God and creation can be modeled on basis of the key metaphor of niche construction understood as a reciprocally resonating dramatic coherence. Theologically, Markus Mühling presents a theory of revelation as perception and a relational-narrative ontology based on the concept of dramatic coherence, in which the triune life is understood not as an exception to ontology, but as the decisive condition of its possibility. For neuroscience and evolutionary theory it provides the insight that taking the concepts of internally related external relata and a phenomenological approach into account leads to new horizons for solving those problems seen in certain older paradigms as posing irreconcilable contradictions. Mühling also argues that a dialogue between theology and the natural sciences in order to be fruitful must be maintained in relative dependence and independence, that any such dialogue must take philosophical considerations into account, and that it is decisive for each of the dialogue partners to speak on behalf of their proper and particular areas of research. The proposed results also reflect the authors participation in the dialogue between leading theologians and scientists at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton (NJ) on Evolution and Human Nature in 2013.

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