Rechtfertigung in der neuzeitlichen lebenswelt

Malum

Ruckkehr des religiosen?

Das leben

English summary: This is the first of four planned volumes which study the definition of life. It presents important basic inherent structures of the concept of life from Aristotle to Schelling in chronological order. Using various examples, the authors show how life was talked about in European ...

Religion im denken von william james

Mitleid

English summary: Is compassion an emotion or a virtue? What characterizes a Christian understanding of compassion? What is its relationship to the Passion of Christ, to mercy and to the love for one's fellow human beings? The authors of this volume examine these issues from the perspective of cul...

Hermeneutik der religion

English summary: Hermeneutics and religion are closely related. It was, after all, religion which brought hermeneutics into existence. This was neither a useless invention, nor was it selfless, since religion needs hermeneutics in order to explain itself. In a world with many and often conflictin...

Mission als namenszeugnis

Gott zur sprache bringen

Das evangelium von der rechtfertigung des gottlosen als zentrum des christlichen glaubens

Gegenwartige abendmahlsordnung in der evangelischen kirche in deutschland

Akzeptierte abhangigkeit

Kirchenbild und predigtziel

Das leben

English summary: In its first section, the second of four volumes of interdisciplinary studies of 'life' deals with the proof and the enhancement of the concept of life in works ranging from Kierkegaard and Darwin to Freud. The second section explores turning points and disruptions. The authors b...

Kompetenzen der bilder

Kirche und bildende kunst der moderne

Der lebendige gott

Kasualtheorie

English summary: Protestants expect their church to support them when they are going through periods of upheaval or at turning points in their lives. This is why the significance of baptism, confirmation, wedding and funerals is important for their view of the church. Sometimes ministers see thes...

Göttliche zufälligkeiten

Daniel Zimmermann's study, dedicated to the philosophy of religion of G. E. Lessing, offers an analysis of relevant texts by illuminating them in their historical and ideological contexts. The reconstruction proves Lessing's path of thought to be a systematically describable, consistent development.

Wenn hunger droht

Monastische theologie und protestantismus

Multiple reformations?

Gott und geld

Gottinger religionspadagogik

Predigen im angesicht der moderne

200 jahre praktische theologie

Globalisierte religion

Studien zur homiletik dietrich bonhoeffers

Ausdruck und darstellung von religion im gebet

Machtworte

Religion und anerkennung

Predigt als sprachgeschehen gelebt-religioser praxis

Uberlieferung und erfahrung

English summary: In his articles on practical theology, Dietrich Rossler discusses the recurring practical problems in the church and the parish by explaining how basic traditions can provide orientation for contemporary issues. This volume contains 26 essays written by Rossler between 1961 and 2...

Von den wachtern zu adam

Enzyklopadische probleme der praktischen theologie

Schleiermachers lehre von wiedergeburt und heiligung

Wozu ist die diakonie fahig?

Bildung in der praktischen theologie

Begnadete freiheit

Systematische theologie

Jesus in geschichte und bekenntnis

Predigten in der literatur

Herder - luther

Basileia bei origenes

Anweisung zur bildung angehender theologen

The fate of the dead in early third century north african christianity

Die transformation des kirchenbegriffs in der fruhaufklarung

Gottesdienstlehre

The identity of jesus: nordic voices

Agenda

Religion and nationhood

Erfahrungsbezogener religionsunterricht

The memory of ignatius of antioch

Frazer MacDiarmid demonstrates how 'memory' provides an interpretative key to unlock Ignatius of Antioch. The author proves that Ignatius' rich literary legacy shows the martyr to be at once one who remembers, one aspiring to be worthy of remembrance, and one who is indeed remembered.

Ethik der zeit - zeiten der ethik

Is ethics time-dependent? To what extent do time contexts or time dimensions such as past and future also determine present action? In dialogue with ancient concepts of time ethics (Egyptian, Greek-philosophical and Jewish-Christian tradition), new perspectives for present fields of action are ga...

The creed and the scriptures

How did Scripture influence the ancient Christian creeds? Did the earliest precursors to the creeds influence the formation of Scripture itself? Were Christians the only people in antiquity who made creeds, as has often been alleged? The authors of this volume investigate the relationship between...

Divine and human love in jewish and christian antiquity

How is love conceived and mapped onto the conceptual landscape of antiquity? In this volume, Crabbe and Lincicum assemble a set of essays that analyze the concept of love in ancient Judaism and Christianity from the minor prophets to Methodius of Olympus, with a central focus on the texts that ca...

Reformatorische paulusauslegungen

This volume focuses on the Swiss Reformation in Zurich, the Upper Rhine region, and Geneva. In addition, Anabaptist, humanist and Wittenberg commentators alongside Luther come into view.

Spätantike apostelerzählungen

Theologically and historically worthless? Tobias Nicklas shows that the late antique apostle narratives, which have received little attention to date, are rather to be understood as continued Jesus Christ narratives, offers for identity formation, political statements and important testimonies of...

The canon and beyond

This volume collects contributions of the past 20 years by Tobias Nicklas on questions surrounding the New Testament canon and the significance of apocryphal writings. A particular focus is on the reassessment of Christian apocrypha as well as the understanding of the canon as a dynamic entity.

Revelation 19-21 in the exegesis of early christian roman africa

Martina Vercesi explores the interpretation of chapters 19-21 of the Book of Revelation in the Christian communities of Roman Africa from the second to the fourth century, considering historical, theological, and textual questions.

The benedictine prologue

For centuries, biblical prologues served as gateways to the themes and problems of the Latin Bible. The present study of the overlooked Benedictine Prologue illuminates textual influences, intellectual exchange, and doctrinal confrontations as they unfolded at the time of the appearance of the Vu...

Above, below, before, and after

An exploration of the transformation of Jewish and Christian texts and traditions across languages, cultures and religions, ranging from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic Judaism to Nag Hammadi literature and Jewish and Christian magic, and from classical rabbinic literature and patristic writ...

Briefe an hans von soden. briefwechsel mit philipp vielhauer und hans conzelmann

Rudolf Bultmann's letters to Hans von Soden enable the reader to share in the intellectual struggle surrounding the positioning of liberal and dialectical theology. In Bultmann's correspondence with Philipp Vielhauer and Hans Conzelmann there is a discussion of key theological themes which are st...

Johann lorenz von mosheim als prediger der aufklärung

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1693-1755) was one of the most remarkable theologians of the eighteenth century and early Enlightenment theology. By combining research perspectives on both Mosheim's sermons and his homiletics, Sophia Farnbauer's ground-breaking study represents a methodological novelt...

Geschichtsschreibung und täufertum

Integrating the Anabaptist movement coherently into their own historiographical concept of the Reformation challenged both Lutheran and Reformed scholars. Steffie Schmidt examines the extent to which these narrative patterns were questioned and possibly updated under the conditions of pietism and...

Deacons and diakonia in late antiquity

In this volume, scholars from a variety of backgrounds extend the work begun in Deacons and Diakonia in Early Christianity (2018) into the patristic era, further contributing to our understanding of how leadership structures developed in the past and informing ecumenical discussions today.

Leibhaftige frömmigkeit

Devout reverence to the wound in Christ's side is omnipresent in the religious piety of the late Middle Ages. Anne Bezzel's study shows that this devotion is embedded in the cosmos of medieval religiosity, which is characterized by the significance of the body, the longing for grace, the discover...

Der libellus carminum des eugenius von toledo

Commenting on and analysing the Libellus Carminum of the seventh century Visigothic bishop and poet Eugenius of Toledo, this book argues that in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, writing and reading religious poetry was a spiritual practice, and also a general way of coping with life and ...

Thekla in syriac

Jacob A. Lollar provides a complete text and reception analysis of the earliest extant copies of the Acts of Thekla, disciple of the apostle Paul and the most famous female saint in Christian history. He offers new insights into the earliest attestations of her story from West Asia to North Africa.

Grundsätze einer weisen und christlichen erziehungskunst

Johann Peter Miller's (1725-1789) work "Principles of a Wise and Christian Art of Education" combined his multifaceted experience as a teacher with his enlightened theological insights. He brought theological competency into the field of education demonstrating his optimism for this neology, a ke...

Stasis

Jonathan Stutz shows that early Christian narratives on religious violence have to be read against the background of ancient perceptions of violence and alongside ancient texts that aimed at legitimizing or de-legitimizing the use of physical coercion.

Recht, ethos und heiligkeit

Matthias Hope clarifies the Holiness Code's categorization as law in various ways, including insights from legal anthropology. He sheds light on the interaction of legal and ethical elements also employing results of "emotion studies." Reflections on holiness reveal its key role as a mediating el...

Die "jellinek-these" vom religiösen ursprung der grundrechte

Annabelle Meier reviews the late C19th legal scholar Georg Jellinek's theory showing that evangelical demands for liberty of conscience in colonial America laid the groundwork for religious freedom, thereby anticipating the legal structure of modern human rights.

Die rechtliche verfassung von religionsgemeinschaften

Ordnungen der trauung

Recht in der kirche des evangeliums

Gesammelte beitrage zum kirchenrecht und staatskirchenrecht

English summary: In the essays contained in this book, Dietrich Pirson makes a contribution to a better understanding of the present Protestant church law. In nine chapters dealing with the general issues of ecclesiastical law, the history of ecclesiastical law, the constitution of the church, th...

Ausgewahlte schriften zum staats- und kirchenrecht

English summary: Professor Dr. Herbert Frost died on August 10, 1998 on his 77th birthday in Cologne. Before acquiring emeritus status in 1986, he was an associate professor of ecclesiastical law, general constitutional law and philosophy of law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cologne....

Das staatskirchenrecht der neuen bundeslander

English summary: Claudio Fuchs outlines the legislation on religion and religious communities in the new German federal states. The constitutions of the federal states and the legislation and state contracts with church give extensive freedom and opportunities to the religious communities. This w...

Evangelisches kirchenrecht

Gesammelte schriften

English summary: Karl-Hermann Kastner is a Professor of Public Law and Church Law at the Faculty of Law and a co-opted member of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Church Law of the Protestant Church i...

Das kirchliche amt

Religiose neutralitat und rundfunkfreiheit

Eherecht und ehegerichtsbarkeit in der reformationszeit

Schleiermachers staatslehre

Kirchenrechtliche gutachten in den jahren 1946-1969

Gesammelte schriften

Das gesetzgebungsrecht der evangelischen kirche unter dem einfluss des landesherrlichen kirchenregiments im 16. jahrhundert

Territorialfurst und reichsjustiz

Korperschaftsstatus und religionsfreiheit