Word: wissenschaft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...