{"id":556,"date":"2007-01-05T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T10:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/mercy-and-truth\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T10:24:17","slug":"mercy-and-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/01\/mercy-and-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy and truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing science and seeking truth may be occasionally unkind to others. Watching a beautiful movie (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babette%27s_Feast\">Babette&#8217;s Feast<\/a>&#8220;, Oscar 1988) I was deeply moved by the speech of the officer Lorens L\u00f6wenhjelm about &#8220;Barmherzigkeit und Wahrheit&#8221; or &#8220;mercy and truth&#8221; &#8211; it goes back to<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPs 85:10 (KJ) Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/luther.glaubensstimme.de\/luther12.html\">Martin Luther<\/a> found that remarkable as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekd.de\/ausland_oekumene\/030320_huber_irak.html\">Wolfgang Huber<\/a>. Yea, yea. <\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing science and seeking truth may be occasionally unkind to others. Watching a beautiful movie (&#8220;Babette&#8217;s Feast&#8220;, Oscar 1988) I was deeply moved by the speech of the officer Lorens L\u00f6wenhjelm about &#8220;Barmherzigkeit und Wahrheit&#8221; or &#8220;mercy and truth&#8221; &#8211; it goes back to Ps 85:10 (KJ) Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/01\/mercy-and-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mercy and truth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[2946,2951,55,535,536,537],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-science-theology","tag-philosophy-of-science","tag-science-theology","tag-science-meets-theology","tag-babette","tag-martin_luther","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}