Wissenschaft und Glauben bei Michael Polanyi

For Michael Polanyi, religion and science fight abreast to protect the occidental culture from totalitarian threat. Both are belief-based endeavors, Polanyi is convinced. While this is not surprising at all regarding religion, it is surely a provocation regarding science. The article tries to explore this original thought of Polanyi and to examine how it is rooted in his personal convictions and beliefs. Special emphasis is given to Polanyi’s critique of contemporary biology, as expressed in his article on “Science and Religion”, in some ways a response to Paul Tillich’s theology. Contemporary biology’s findings undermine exactly what Polanyi is fighting for, hence he is convinced that its findings are somewhat flawed. This should however not lead to the false conclusion that Polanyi had anything to do with creationism or would have favored Intelligent Design in our days.

Das alte Israel und die bildenden Künste : Festrede zur Feier des dreihundert und siebten Stiftungstages der Königl. Julius-Maximilians-Universität, gehalten am 2ten Januar 1889

von Joseph Grimm

Worte der Trauer, gesprochen am 20. October 1871 am Sarge des verewigten Herrn Gotthelf Michael Binge

von N. Brüll und H. Bärwald

Oberrabbiner Michael Scheuer als Kritiker seiner Zeit

Isak Unna

Oberrabbiner Michael Scheuer als Kritiker seiner Zeit

Berthold Rosenthal

Segens-Spruch des Rabbiner Dr. Michael Sachs über die Opfer des 18. und 19. März: An ihren Särgen gesprochen den 22. März 1848: Im Namen jenes uralten Bekenntnisses, das als lebendiger Zeuge der Weltgeschichte und Weltgeschicke ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Veröffentlichung der anläßlich der Einsegnung der Märzgefallenen von dem Berliner Rabbiner Dr. Sachs gesprochenen Trauerworte

Chronological Order of Appearance of Extraintestinal Manifestations Relative to the Time of IBD Diagnosis in the Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort.

BACKGROUND Data evaluating the chronological order of appearance of extraintestinal manifestations (EIMs) relative to the time of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) diagnosis is currently lacking. We aimed to assess the type, frequency, and chronological order of appearance of EIMs in patients with IBD. METHODS Data from the Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study were analyzed. RESULTS The data on 1249 patients were analyzed (49.8% female, median age: 40 [interquartile range, 30-51 yr], 735 [58.8%] with Crohn's disease, 483 [38.7%] with ulcerative colitis, and 31 [2.5%] with indeterminate colitis). A total of 366 patients presented with EIMs (29.3%). Of those, 63.4% presented with 1, 26.5% with 2, 4.9% with 3, 2.5% with 4, and 2.7% with 5 EIMs during their lifetime. Patients presented with the following diseases as first EIMs: peripheral arthritis 70.0%, aphthous stomatitis 21.6%, axial arthropathy/ankylosing spondylitis 16.4%, uveitis 13.7%, erythema nodosum 12.6%, primary sclerosing cholangitis 6.6%, pyoderma gangrenosum 4.9%, and psoriasis 2.7%. In 25.8% of cases, patients presented with their first EIM before IBD was diagnosed (median time 5 mo before IBD diagnosis: range, 0-25 mo), and in 74.2% of cases, the first EIM manifested itself after IBD diagnosis (median: 92 mo; range, 29-183 mo). CONCLUSIONS In one quarter of patients with IBD, EIMs appeared before the time of IBD diagnosis. Occurrence of EIMs should prompt physicians to look for potential underlying IBD.