Damnation

Condemnation, damnation ( althochdt. firdammon; " make you pay " from the Latin damnare, " condemn ", " discard ", to Latin damnum " [money] penance ," " loss," "damage" ) means something than in special manner worthy of punishment explain (eg, sacrilegious ) or as not reject the faith Codex accordingly ( about heresy ). In German, the terms overlap condemnation and conviction and are partially used synonymously.

In church history, the term has a special role. Here it means " exclusion from salvation." While a conviction an opinion or doctrine is merely referred to as false, a dam is directed to a person and includes the formula anathema sit ( Engl.: " he was out ," that is, excommunicated ) with a. This means the anathema not only the doctrine of a person as misrepresents but says about the person from that she had made ​​by this doctrine outside of the Roman Catholic Church. In the medieval conception of the dogma "extra ecclesiam nulla salus " explained the self accomplished by the faithful excommunication latae sententiae as the exclusion from salvation. The Church's judgment ( completed by councils or by the Pope alone and recognizable at the terminus damnamus, " we reject " ), the excommunication stated publicly. Based on this understanding, the term derives from condemnation. Also, the Lutheran Augsburg Confession of 1530 includes dams, for example, against the Anabaptists.

Another meaning he plays in the ambivalent relationship between Judaism and Christianity: beliefs about God's rejection of the Jewish people as " chosen people " formed the basis of religious anti-Judaism, after the horrors of the Second World War, the Christian theology of this paradigm has moved away, see churches and Judaism after 1945.