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Das reformatorische Schriftprinzip gilt vielen als nicht mehr tragfahig. Grund dafur ist die Losloesung der Schriftautoritat von ihrer kritischen und heilsamen Wirkung in Gesetz und Evangelium. Dagegen weisen die Aufsatze dieses Bandes Wege zu einer Wiederentdeckung der lebensgestaltenden Kraft der Schrift als Kanon und Sakrament. Dies geschieht in Auseinandersetzung mit theologischen Ansatzen, die selber die Relevanz der biblischen Botschaft gewahrleisten wollen und Gefahr laufen, das aussere B...

By "the fear of freedom" Greer means the unconscious flight from the heavy burden of individual choice an open society lays upon its members. The miraculous represents a heavenly power brought down to earth and tied to the life of the community. Understanding how miracles were perceived in the late antiquity requires us to put aside the notion of a miracle as the violation of the natural order. "Miracles" for the church fathers refers to anything that evokes wonder. Rowan Greer is not concerned...

This book explores marketing as a genuine component of religious traditions. It investigates the theme across a large historical and geographical area, and in a variety of expressions, ranging from 3rd BCE Maya stucco friezes, early Christian writings, and 9th CE Cambodian inscriptions, right down to modern-day propaganda and recruitment strategies adopted by the ISIS jihadi movement, Falun Gong, Muslim Varkaris, spirit mediums in India and Thailand, Thai Buddhist monasteries, and the Vatican. T...

Die Beitrage dieses Bandes sind methodisch und inhaltlich interdisziplinar ausgerichtet. Dadurch ist ein Werk entstanden, das auf der Grundlage des metaphysischen Denkerbes von namhaften Vertretern der europaischen und amerikanischen Wissenschaft zustande gekommen ist. Es geht in dem Sammelband um eine erneute Wurdigung der Metaphysik als eine Wissenschaft und damit zugleich um die Wurdigung einer bestimmten Geisteshaltung der persona humana, die erst auf diesem stabilen Fundament ihr irdisches...

WINNER of the Women's History Network 2020 Book Prize Church court records offer the most detailed records of everyday life in medieval England for people below the level of the elite. Vivid testimony in cases of marriage, insult, and debt, as well as tithes, testaments and ecclesiastical rights, show how men and women thought about the past and presented their own histories. While previous studies of memory in this period have tended to explore formal memory techniques in the schools and mo...

The interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval society. It was an ecclesiastical sanction which had the effect of closing churches and suspending religious services. Often imposed on an entire community because its leaders had violated the rights and laws of the Church, popes exploited it as a political weapon in their conflicts with secular rulers during the thirteenth century. In this book, Peter Clarke examines this significant but neglected subject, presenting a wealth of new...

What might the often cited phrases from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prison theology mean for the ethical discourse at the beginning of the 21st century? Which hermeneutical concepts might enable contemporary religious thinkers to enter into a dialogue with Bonhoeffer's thought? This collection of lectures will address questions like these both by examining the intellectual, cultural and historical origins of Bonhoeffer's Tegel Theology and by drawing out the ethical consequences of Bonhoeffer's contri...

The study is the first monograph devoted to the musical culture of a female order in Poland. It is a result of in-depth research into musical, narrative, economic, and prosopographic sources surviving in libraries and archives. Focused on the musical practice of nuns, the book also points to the context of spirituality, morality, and culture of the post-Trident era. The author indicates the transformation of the musical activity of the nuns during the 17th and 18th century and discusses its vari...