Cybernetics (theology)

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The Cybernetics ( nominalized Greek adjective κυβερνητικὴ [τέχνη] "Steuermanns- [art]" with meaning to κυβερνήτης , ancient Greek spoken kybernetes , " helmsman " and κυβέρνησις , kybérnesis , "Line", "rule") is the (largely obsolete) Title for a sub-discipline of practical theology . She dealt with the church leadership.

New approaches in practical theology have further developed cybernetics in favor of a “theory of church action”.

literature

  • Carl Adolf Gerhard von Zezschwitz : System of the Christian church catechetics. Volume 1: The Catechumenate or Church Education According to Theory and History . Hinrichs , Leipzig 1863. Therein § 4, No. 3: Cybernetics .
  • Ernst Christian Achelis : Textbook of practical theology. Volume 2: Catechetics - Poimenics - Koinonics (Inner Mission - Gustav Adolf Association). The Gentile and Jewish Mission. Cybernetics . Hinrichs, Leipzig, 2., newly edited. Ed. 1898.

Footnotes

  1. Jan Hermelink : Cybernetics . In: Thomas Klie (ed.): Practical Theology of Aging . de Gruyter, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-11-020374-5 . P. 543-573, and Ders: The Church Leadership Function of the Sermon. Reflections on the evangelical profile of cybernetics . In: Praktische Theologie, Vol. 94 (2005), pp. 462–479.