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Nikolaus Lobkowicz

He was born in Prague in 1931. Married with five children, he was professor of philosophy at the universities of Notre Dame in the USA and of the Ludwigs-Maximilians University in Munich, Bavaria. President of the University of Munich from 1971 til 1982. Member of the Papal Council for Culture until 1992. 1984 to 1996 President of the Catholic University of Eichstätt. Currently director of the Institute for Central and Eastern European Studies (ZIMOS) of the University of Eichstätt.

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Religion and Society

Culture Between the Indefinable and Certainty

The Christian tradition and new challenges /1. The intellectuals of the twentieth century used culture in opposition to nature, for anthropologists it must be cited only in the plural, and despite St. Paul, St. Augustine and the missionaries, the Church did not develop an explicit teaching in relation to it. Only with John Paul II did it become a habitual subject of theology.

01.12.2009

Nikolaus Lobkowicz

Religion and Society

Pharaoh Amenhotep and Dignitatis Humanae

01.12.2008

Nikolaus Lobkowicz

Religion and Society

The Injustice that is Born of the Best Intentions

Unforeseen consequencs /1. There is an ambiguity in the notion of 'human rights', and it is the fact that they can be extended to any subjective desire. This is not only the outcome of the vagueness of the notion but also expresses something that is more grave.

01.03.2007

Nikolaus Lobkowicz

Classics

Fake Biologist, Theological Genius

Author: Alexander Men Title: Der Menschensohn (The Son of Man) Publisher: Herder,Freiburg i. Br. 2006, 459 pp.

01.03.2007

Nikolaus Lobkowicz

Religion and Society

And the West Discovered Another Terrorism

Something changed /6. Until that moment very few Europeans or Americans knew anything about Islam. Suddenly they found themselves faced with a new kind of threat that seemed to have its origins in an extraneous religion. And they began to come to terms with a world which had hitherto been unknown to them.

01.09.2006

Nikolaus Lobkowicz

Religion and Society