Das Christentum und der Staat

English summary: The issue of relationship of Christianity to state-organized political power in general, and its contribution to the formation and intellectual foundations of the modern State in particular is raised frequently and - in former times as well as in present age - answered quite differently. The essays by Robert Spaemann, Hans Maier, Josef Isensee, Udo Di Fabio and Wolfgang Huber, as collected in this volume, look into this question from various disciplinary perspectives....
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English summary: The issue of relationship of Christianity to state-organized political power in general, and its contribution to the formation and intellectual foundations of the modern State in particular is raised frequently and - in former times as well as in present age - answered quite differently. The essays by Robert Spaemann, Hans Maier, Josef Isensee, Udo Di Fabio and Wolfgang Huber, as collected in this volume, look into this question from various disciplinary perspectives. Despite different appraisals in detail, they are united by the respective scientifically founded assessment that even the political world in which we live today would be completely different without Christianity. German description: Wie sieht das Verhaltnis des Christentums zu staatlich organisierter politischer Herrschaft aus? Welchen Beitrag leistet es zur Herausbildung und geistigen Fundierung des modernen neuzeitlichen Staats? Diese Fragen werden haufig gestellt und - im Verlauf der Geschichte ebenso wie gegenwartig - ganz unterschiedlich beantwortet. Die hier versammelten Beitrage von Robert Spaemann, Hans Maier, Josef Isensee, Udo Di Fabio und Wolfgang Huber gehen dieser Frage aus unterschiedlichen disziplinaren Perspektiven nach. Ungeachtet mancher Bewertungsunterschiede im Einzelnen eint sie die wissenschaftlich jeweils unterschiedlich begrundete Einschatzung , dass auch die politische Welt, in der wir leben, ohne das Christentum eine ganzlich andere ware.