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Table of contents
Summary: 1. Introducing - 2. Hal Koch: early years - 3. History and church history - 4. On Luther. Freedom and Christianity - 5. On Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig - 6. Koch's Grundtvig. Folkelighed and Folkeaanden - 7. Danskhed. The awakening of Danish identity - 8. Beyond danskhed. Christian dimension and political dimension - 9. Christianity versus democracy - 10. What is democracy? - 11. Concluding: democracy and law in a comparison with Alf Ross
Abstract
The contribution examines Danish theologian Hal Koch's thinking on the relations of identity and difference between Christianity, politics and democracy in view of the building of a secularized society.
Keywords
Hal Koch; Christianity; democracy; politics
