The Sense of the Universe deals with existential and phenomenological reflection upon modern cosmology with the aim to reveal hidden theological commitments in cosmology related to the mystery of human existence.
Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics (BAGL) is an international journal that exists to further the application of modern linguistics to the study of Ancient and Biblical Greek, with a particular focus on the analysis of texts, including but not restricted to the Greek New Testament.
Für die pietistische Reformbewegung bildeten Geschlechtlichkeit und Ehe eine besondere Heraus-forderung, legte sie doch Wert auf den Erfahrungsbezug der Frömmigkeit.
Wer die christliche Botschaft zeitgemäß verkünden soll, wird sich immer wieder fragen: Wie predige ich so, dass das Wort beim Hörer als Gottes Wort ankommt und ihn zum Glauben ruft?
Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, M rten Bj rk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism.
Immediacy and Meaning seeks to approach the odd uneasiness at root in all metaphysical meaning; that the human knower attempts to mediate what cannot be mediated; that there is a pre-cognitive immemorial immediacy to Being that renders its participants irreducible, incommunicable and personal.
Dissident Women, Beguines, and the Quest for Spiritual Authority focuses on the responses of a group of twenty-first-century women to the lives and writings of thirteenth-century beguine mystics, and reveals how the struggle to discover their own inner spiritual authority connects two groups of women across centuries.
Drei wichtige Manuskripte aus dem Nachlass von Richard Schaeffler – er lebte von 1926 bis 2019 – versammelt dieses Buch, ergänzt um eine Reflexion zur Theodizee und vier Beiträgen des Herausgebers über Leben und Werk des bedeutenden Philosophen.
This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies.
For far too long, Lauri Thuren argues, the parables of Jesus have been read either as allegories encoding Christian theology—including the theological message of one or another Gospel writer—or as tantalizing clues to the authentic voice of Jesus.
Modelling Early Christianity explores the intriguing foreign social context of first century Palestine and the Greco-Roman East, in which the Christian faith was first proclaimed and the New Testament documents were written.
This book takes a critical look at the internationalisation of higher education and argues for the importance of grounding education in spiritual perspectives.
In the study of Judaism, the Zohar has captivated the minds of interpreters for over seven centuries, and continues to entrance readers in contemporary times.
The thesis of the book may be stated simply: it is an argument based upon the four prophetic texts of Jer 23:5; Zech 3:8; 6:12; and Isa 4:2 as a foundational pattern for the four Gospels.
