Castellio's plea for religious tolerance and his refusal of prosecution of dissenters are as relevant today as they had been in 1554 when Michel Servet's burning at the stake occasioned Castellio's protest.
Spätestens durch die 2006 beschlossene Behindertenrechtskonvention der Vereinten Nationen hat der Begriff der »Inklusion« in der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion erheblichen Einfluss gewonnen.
This collection of essays, a companion volume to the book, Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), examines important nineteenth-century figures from the perspective of contemporary European and North-American scholars.
In 1561, a Eucharistic controversy erupted in Danzig of the sixteenth century, sparked by disagreements on the real presence and the practical treatment of the Eucharistic elements.
In 1611 Edmond Richer, the syndic of the Faculty of Theology of Paris, published a short but incisive defence of the conciliarist doctrine under the title De ecclesiastica et politica potestate.
This book does not only deal with the history, but also with the effects of the Reformation over the mentality, education and scientifical research among Hungarians during the last five centuries.
Der Psalmenkommentar Phillip Melanchthons wurde anhand seiner Psalmenvorlesungen zusammengestellt, die er an der Wittenberger Universität 1548–1553 gehalten hat.
Der liturgische Teil des Jahrbuchs wird mit einem Beitrag zur neuen evangelischen Revision der Lese- und Predigtperikopen und ihren liturgischen Implikationen eröffnet.
Lavaters vielfältige Interessen, die nicht allein durch Lektüre ausgemessen wurden, sondern durch persönliche, nicht selten streitbare Kontakte vitalisierend waren, machen ihn zu einer schillernden Zentralfigur des 18.
Angesichts des Reformationsjubiläums 2017 liegt der Schwerpunkt dieses Jahrbuchs auf verschiedenen liturgischen und hymnologischen Aspekten der vier vorausgehenden Jahrhunderte: wie sie vorbereitet und gefeiert wurden, auch welche Wirkungen von ihnen ausgingen.
The contributors to this volume examine the complex and dynamic role that Protestant majorities and minorities played in shaping the Reformations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Die Autorin untersucht die Herkunft des Bösen, vor allem bei Thomas von Aquin und Maimonides, und analysiert das Zusammenspiel der natürlichen Begrenztheit des Geschaffenen und der menschlichen Freiheit.
74 Texte zur Nacht, 74 profilierte Autorinnen und Autoren: Der Band bietet eine einzigartige Sammlung verschiedener Zugänge, Stile, Einfälle und Gedanken.
New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraftThe Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature.
In 11 essays The Doctrine of Election in Reformed Perspective reflect ongoing investigations concerning the doctrine of election, with special focus on the Synod of Dort 1618-19.
A comprehensive survey of how religions understand death, dying, and the afterlife, drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Shamanic perspectives.
A comprehensive survey of how religions understand death, dying, and the afterlife, drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Shamanic perspectives.
Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical rationality and the passions.
Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical rationality and the passions.
Jeff Wilson started his walk on the Buddha's path as a Zen practitioner - taking up a tradition of vigorous self-effort, intensive meditation, and meticulous attention to rectitude in every action.
The Abhidhamma, the third great division of early Buddhist teaching, expounds a revolutionary system of philosophical psychology rooted in the twin Buddhist insights of selflessness and dependent origination.
All lineages of Tibetan Buddhism today claim allegiance to the philosophy of the Middle Way, the exposition of emptiness propounded by the second-century Indian master Nagarjuna.
Seine Selbstvorstellung als Bischof von Rom, seine Bitte um den Segen und das Gebet des Volkes vor der Spendung seines eigenen Segens, sein Verzicht auf die päpstlichen Gemächer, seine Betonung eines einfachen Lebensstils, sein Eintreten für "eine arme Kirche der Armen".
In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus in Disneyland.
How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed everything into a legal question-and Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everythingThough typically translated as "e;Jewish law,"e; the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law.
A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia.
A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square.
A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither.
