Published in GralsWelt special issue 11/2003) THE UNITY OF NATURE The world view in the Middle Ages For a person of the Middle Ages the question of the unity of nature has hardly arisen. He lived in a unified, closed world, in the middle of which the [...]
(Published in GralsWelt special issue 11/2003) CREATIVE FORCES OF NATURE Does more belong to nature than the world that is visible to us? During the greater part of human development, the invisible, the otherworldly, was a natural part of the world. [...]
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World riddles and natural wonders part I.
(Published in GralsWelt Issue 11/2003) THE SEVEN WORLD TRADITIONS The natural scientist Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896), who teaches in Berlin, gave a widely acclaimed speech in Leipzig in 1872 on “the limits of the knowledge of nature”. He explained that there were a lot of scientific problems [...]
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The big crisis
(Published in GralsWelt 19/2001) In memories of the time after the First World War, people speak of the “golden twenties”, the “golden twenties”. During that decade, between 1920 and 1930, Europe slowly recovered from the wounds of war, and art and culture flourished. Many developments, the effects of which can still be felt today, such as the rise [...]
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The passage of Venus
(Published in GralsWelt 31/2004) A rare astronomical event On June 8, 2004 and then on June 6, 2012, a rare astronomical phenomenon awaits us: Venus, visible from Earth, will pass the solar disk. Such a "Venus passage" presupposes that Venus is at a knot *) of its [...] in the conjunction Sun / Venus
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The big bang as proof of God
(Published in GralsWelt 32/2004) The world is full of wonders, in the greatest and in the smallest. One of these miracles - something that we cannot explain - is the fine interplay, the precisely balanced coordination of the laws of nature. These had to be exactly the same, were not allowed to be slightly different, so that suns, planets, plants, animals, people could arise in our universe [...]
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The temple in Jerusalem
(Published in GralsWelt 26/2002) THE HOLY LAND A strip of land at the transition from Africa to Asia, the only land bridge between these great continents, has been a passage and connection point between peoples, countries, nations and cultures for thousands of years: Palestine. Trade and cultural exchange enriched, war campaigns devastated the country, which, like most transit countries, wedged between larger empires, only found tranquility temporarily. [...]
By Johannes Huber (editor) Styria Verlag, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-222-12863-4. (Published in GralsWelt 22/2001) A team of authors that covers a wide spectrum from medicine to natural sciences to philosophy and theology has tackled one of the hot topics of our time: the question of ethics and morals in an era in which genetic engineering, Cloning, research with embryonic [...]
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When the sun went out
By David Keys, Goldmann, Munich, 2002. (Published in GralsWelt 31/2004). If we deal with the past, then we find in the historiography above all king lists, political intrigues, wars, battles, conquests, tricks of strategists, etc. Relatively little can be learned about everyday life, and the influence of climatic fluctuations, epidemics or Natural disasters on historical developments will [...]
(Veröffentlicht in GralsWelt 25/2002) Von John Anthony West, Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt 2000: Wer nach dem Ursprung der abendländischen Kultur fragt, bekommt von Historikern oft eine eindeutige Antwort: Griechenland. Hier gab es die ersten spekulativen Denker, hier erreichten Philosophie, Geometrie, Dramatik, Baukunst, Plastik, erste Höhepunkte, die noch heute bewundert werden. Ganz anders beurteilen wir die ägyptische Kultur. […]