這曾經是約翰．杜威的基本洞見：民主「藉由平衡不同的生活形式和價值信念而獲得其關聯性。」就我的論文而言，我選擇了非裔美籍的米凱拉．迪普利斯（身為黑人巴蕾舞者的她代表了美國夢）和華裔美籍中國工夫明星李小龍（他將中國功夫描述為展現你自己的方式）的敘事，作為美學表現和自我覺察的不同形式，換言之，作為我們社會中多元脈絡（包括其靈性層面）的不同生活形式：的確，對於激情的芭蕾舞者而言，舞蹈本身勝過於對舞蹈的愛好，而東方的武術，如中國功夫和日本的空手道深刻地根植於佛教的禪宗。根據施萊爾馬赫的看法，基督教的生活方式乃是最具體的靈性生活形式，它賦予你最大的自發性，即自由自在地在公共空間中（加3:28）並且作為上帝真正的形像（創1:27）創意地行動的能力。那正是人為的行動力和直接源自創造者上帝的原始行動力之間的基本差異。耶穌在安息日於公共空間中進行醫治的方式將基督教的生活方式展示為真實的生活方式。同時，這件事述說了它作為倫理的生活形式對民主，最終對於真正的人性（有別於抽象的規範性理念、所有的模仿和空洞幻象）的某些貢獻。

It has been a fundamental insight of John Dewey, that democracy “receives its relevance by balancing different life-forms and value-convictions.” For my paper I have chosen the narratives of Afro-American Michaela DePrince, a young girl who embodies the American dream as a black ballerina, and the Sino-American martial artist Bruce Lee, who described Chinese Kung Fu as a way to express yourself, as different forms of aesthetic expression and self-awareness, i.e., as different life forms in the context of diversity in our society including their spiritual dimension: Actually, for a passionate ballerina dancing is greater than love, and of course far-eastern martial arts such as Chinese Kung Fu as well as the Japanese way of fighting in Karate-Do are deeply rooted in Chan/Zen Buddhism. Finally, the Christian way of living, which is then according to Schleiermacher the most concrete spiritual life-form, gives you the greatest sponaneity, the ability to act in public space freely (Galatians 3:28) and creatively as God's true image (Genesis 1:27). That's the fundamental difference between (artificial) Acting Ability and the original Ability to Act responsibly in relation to God the Creator. Jesus's way of healing on the Sabbath in public space is a demonstration of the Christian life-form as a really living form. At the same time it says something about its contribution to democracy as an ethical life-form (Rendtorff), finally about real humanity in contrast to abstract normative ideas, all kinds of copies or mere illusions.