Die Beziehungsgeschichte von Christen und Muslimen war im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit äußerst vielschichtig, woraus sich besondere Anforderungen für das historische Lernen ergeben.
Angesichts der Transformationsprozesse der Gegenwart hat die wissenschaftliche Theologie die Aufgabe, theologische, kirchliche, historische und gesellschaftliche Fragen im interdisziplinären Gespräch anzugehen.
Received opinion imagines Judaism and Islam as two distinct religions interacting in the centuries following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century.
The concept of inspiration is part and parcel of the theological tradition in several religious confessions, but it has largely receded to the background, if not vanished altogether, in the discussions of biblical scholars.
A fresh exploration of a redeeming, dynamic, and radically different way to hold one's religion Samir Selmanovic who grew up a in a culturally Muslim family in Croatia, converted to Christianity as a soldier in the then-Yugoslavian army, and went on to become a Christian pastor in Manhattan and in Southern California looks at how our ongoing and sometimes violent power struggles over who owns God and what God wants for the world and its peoples are not serving God, humanity, or our planet.
In Popes and Jews, 1095-1291, Rebecca Rist explores the nature and scope of the relationship of the medieval papacy to the Jewish communities of western Europe.
Der Band enthält die Beiträge der zwölften Begegnung im bilateralen Theologischen Dialog zwischen der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland und der Rumänischen Orthodoxen Kirche vom März 2010 in Sambata de Sus und der dreizehnten Begegnung vom März 2013 in Drübeck/Sachsen-Anhalt.
In the State of Israel, the unique family law derives from ancient Jewish law, halakhic traditions, and an extensive legal tradition spanning many centuries and geographic locations.
In einer Zeit, in der sich unterschiedliche und zuweilen widersprechende Wahrheiten nahezu täglich neu Geltung verschaffen, müssen die Wahrheits- und Geltungsansprüche des christlichen Glaubens überprüft und in einer steten Interpretation der biblischen Texte vergegenwärtigt werden.
Holy sites are often at the center of intense contestation between different groups regarding a wide variety of issues, including ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct, and many others.
This volume of the series "e;Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses"e; investigates the roots of the concept of "e;soul"e; in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Religion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of humans through language and the somatic exploration of religious ritual and prayer.
From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest.
Religious pluralism has characterized America almost from its seventeenth-century inception, but the past half century or so has witnessed wholesale changes in the religious landscape, including a proliferation of new spiritualities, the emergence of widespread adherence to 'Asian' traditions, and an evangelical Christian resurgence.
To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America.
This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.
Von einer Lehre der Verachtung zu einer Lehre des Respekts: Nach 1945 erkannten Kirchen und Theologie langsam ihre antijüdische Geschichte und ihre Mitschuld an der Schoah.
New challenges that emerged in the postwar era have given rise to ongoing debate about the place of religion in public life, in the United States and in other established democracies, and this debate has dramatically reshaped the way scholars, policymakers, and religious leaders think about political theology.
This book examines the understudied role of the interfaith movement in institutionalizing religious pluralism in the public life of contemporary societies through the case study of Interfaith Scotland.
A fresh exploration of a redeeming, dynamic, and radically different way to hold one's religion Samir Selmanovic who grew up a in a culturally Muslim family in Croatia, converted to Christianity as a soldier in the then-Yugoslavian army, and went on to become a Christian pastor in Manhattan and in Southern California looks at how our ongoing and sometimes violent power struggles over who owns God and what God wants for the world and its peoples are not serving God, humanity, or our planet.
Flexible Church proposes an ecclesiology for innovative expressions of church that is grounded in biblical texts whilst self-consciously and intentionally developed for the contemporary Western milieu.
