Word: wissenschaft
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Hannes Adomeit, a senior fellow at the Stifung Wissenschaft und Politik, in Ebenhausen, Germany, said the Cuban Missile Crisis was "by far the most dangerous confrontation...
LOGOS: Don't let it happen again. Vorverständnis is one of my favorites. It means presupposition. Wissenschaft is far better than saying simply discipline or science, and anxiety sounds much deeper if you say Angst. If you grow weary of German, there is always Greek-almost everyone has seen Never on Sunday-with such splendid specimens as kerygma (message of the Scriptures) and agape (divine love...
...come from such equally fertile German word-coiners as Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Whenever possible, theological jargon words are used in their German form. Heilsgeschichte, for example, is more learned than salvation history, and it is definitely one up to say Angst instead of anxiety or Wissenschaft instead of discipline. Says Dr. Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford: "You never refer to Barth's Church Dogmatics but rather to his Kirchliche Dogmatik, to show that you don't bother with trots...
...October Professor Francke, who is also honorary curator of the Germanic Museum, took part in a course of lectures arranged by the University of Kiel in connection with the annual "Kieler Herbstwoche for Kunst and Wissenschaft", speaking on the undercurrent of free thought in the age of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation...
...Massigkeitsvereinler and seine Stellung zur deutschen Kultur, Mr. Hoffmanu; Die deutsche Gemuthlichkeit, das funfte Temperament, Mr. Bailey; Die deutsche Wurst, ein anatomisches Studium, Mr. Seligsberg; Die deutsche Musikanten also Vertreter due Zukunftsmusik, Mr. Naumburg; Das deutsche Madchen and ibre amerikanische Schwester, Mr. Marcon; Die deutsche Kneipe, die Grundlage deutscher Wissenschaft, Mr. Oaks; Der deutscher Amerikaner, ein ethnologisches Fragezeichen, Mr. Sondheim. As Mr. Francke was unable to be present, the poem which he had written for the occasion was read by Mr. Winkler amid hearty applause. After prolonged jollity and good-fellowship, perhaps not strictly German in its tendencies, the party...
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