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# **Kurt Appel**

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## Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna

Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna

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### **In Praise of Mortality: Christianity as a New Humanism**

This edition of JCRT is a full translation from the German of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany: Verlag Herder, 2015) Kurt Appel, Editor; Jakob Deibl; Isabella Guanzini; Alex Skinner; Natalie Eder; Carl A. Raschke; Rachel Thomas (Translators)

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                    ![Christianity As A New Humanism – Historical, Theological, And Philosophical Reflections On The Bible, Hegel, And Robert Musil, Part 4 (Kurt Appel)](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp)

### **Christianity As A New Humanism – Historical, Theological, And Philosophical Reflections On The Bible, Hegel, And Robert Musil, Part 4 (Kurt Appel)**

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