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A 5 page paper which examines the the understanding of culture, and of religious symbol systems in relation to religious thought and practice as it is presented in Ernst Troeltsch’s The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches and H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture. No additional sources cited.
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symbols and language people connect with the religion in a powerful and meaningful manner. However, at the same time, there are many ways to interpret how language and symbols are
integrated in society and culture as it pertains to religions. The following paper examines two works, separately, and then contrastingly, as they address this topic. The books are The Social
Teachings of the Christian Churches by Ernst Troeltsch and H. Richard Niebuhrs Christ and Culture. The Social Teachings of the Christian Churches
In Troeltschs work there is clearly an economic and suppressive perspective as it involves language and symbols. This work focuses on that part of the culture that is related
to how civilization moves along, how society works in relationship to different philosophies, rather than how religion has changed as people change. In one particular section he illustrates one aspect
of language in religion but also illustrates how the Church became symbolically, and realistically, beneath the State, offering important information about the relationship between culture and religion through language and
symbol: "In his teaching on the independence and secular character of the State Calvin used exactly the same language as Luther; since, however, at the same time he created a
strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he desired to effect a Christian and ethical transformation of the whole
of Society and civilization, in practice he made the State subordinate to the Church" (Troeltsch, 1993; 627). One can see a strength
in this for it was a reality that helped divide the Church and State in a powerful and cultural manner. At the same time he notes in the work the
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