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Summary (Herbert Asselmeyer: The Commune as a True „ Learning Place“ – a New Perspective for Educational Regions? On the Special Supplementary Relationship of Significant Learning Places: School and Commune): This contribution deals with the explication of the idea and concept of learning regions, to which school networks make an important contribution, because they are… Read More »

Summary (Malgorzata Schonder: Sense of Coherence and Religious Beliefs of Polish and German Students): This empirical study contributes to the question of whether there is a difference in the influence of religious beliefs and affiliation on the sense of coherence between young people from a secular country (such as Germany) and a Catholic country (such… Read More »

Summary (Renate Girmes: Living Through the Spirit or: Why Educational Institutions Should Be Considered „Communities“ for Human Development): The following text explores existing arguments for a new view on the tasks of the education system from a tradition of Christian thought. It takes up what can be considered the sense and promise of baptism in… Read More »

Summary (Gerd Biegel: Braunschweig and the Reformation – Regional Historical Aspects): This essay looks at the early Reformation movement in a small Guelphic principality from a regional historical perspective, with a view to the independent development in the city of Braunschweig. The cities were the actual locations where the spiritiual-clerical impulses which originated from Wittenberg… Read More »

Summary (Anja Franz & Dietrich-Eckhard Franz: Significant Social Utopias in the Context of the German Peasants’ War and the Lutherian Reformation: Thomas Müntzer, Michael Gaismair and Johann Hergot): Social-utopian thinking has a long tradition in Germany. Upon closer examination of social-utopian history, it is evident that many society- and utopia-focused critiques point far beyond the… Read More »

Summary (Gottfried Orth: “An Oven Full of Love” – Luther’s Speech on God in the Context of (Early) Capitalist Civilization): Martin Luther’s writings contain a waelth of economic analyses and perspectives on the beginning capitalist changes in the economy and society of his time. In this case, his economic considerations did not pertain to areas… Read More »

Summary (Alexander Yaroslavovich Daniliuk & Alla Arkadievna Faktorovich: Sense as a pedagogical category): The problem of „sense“ is presented in the context of peculiarities and challenges of the contemporary world. The authors analyze linguistic, philosophical, psychological, and pedagogical definitions of the concept «sense». They separate the concepts «sense» and «meaning». Sense is the essence of… Read More »

Summary (Hein Retter: Luther and the Reformation: Considerations and Critique as Reflected in the Current Literature): The literary production on Luther has been in full swing for more than a year – with impressive results. This contribution is looking at the current view of Martin Luther by historians, church historians and literary authors. The following… Read More »

Summary (Hein Retter: On the Question of Tolerance in the Epoch Between the Reformation and Enlightenment): This article deals with the origins of religious tolerance in the modern era. It goes back to the early modern era, when intolerance by the Roman-Catholic church towards new reformative movements showed itself to be particularly pervasive. At the… Read More »

Summary: Themes related to humanity’s relationship to nature as technological change led to the Industrial Revolution are evident in early modern German and Austrian art and literature. Authors of popular Hausväterliteratur (house fathers’ literature) associated with the Protestant Reformation advocated the rudiments of agricultural “improvement” through division and specialization of agrarian labor, plant selection, crop… Read More »