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The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor,...

This volume presents contributions of the Catholic-Lutheran International Conference held at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome in 2016. The scholars were invited to reflect together on the questions of forgiveness, conversion and penance in the context of the ecumenical dialogue that has been going on since the Second Vatican Council. Precisely because stemming from a deep rethinking of God's forgiveness, the movement that began half a millennium ago has borne diverse fruits in diff...

Preachers are not simple representatives of a particular theological world. Each preacher manifests characteristics that arise from that person's particular approach to life, theology, and preaching. Rather than teaching how one can preach theology or deal with particular theological issues from the pulpit, Ronald J. Allen shows how preaching is informed by the preacher's own theology. A valuable introduction to preaching, Thinking Theologically does not advocate for, nor is it written from, a p...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor,...

Welche hermeneutische Bedeutung kann die Gemeinde bei der Gewinnung der theologischen Gehalte, bzw. des Materials fur die Predigt haben? Alexander Schweizer hat im Gegensatz zu seinem Fachkollegen Alois Emanuel Biedermann der Gemeinde eine grosse, kreative Bedeutung in der Glaubenslehre und Homiletik eingeraumt. Ware die Konfrontation zwischen beiden Fachvertretern nicht auch heute wieder aktuell, nachdem die Gemeinde weitgehend zum ausschliesslichen Rezipienten des Wortes geworden ist? Ein Neua...

Wegen der immer grosser werdenden Distanz junger Menschen zu den Kirchen, zeigt der Autor am Beispiel der Salesianer Don Boscos, dass eine grundlegende Uberdenkung des eigenen Standortes, des benutzten padagogischen Konzeptes, des eigenen Welt- und Menschenbildes, eine Chance auftut, im Wandel der Zeit viele jungen Menschen doch noch fur Kirche, Evangelium und Jesus Christus zu interessieren, ohne dem Zeitgeist das Wort zu reden, um dauerhaft in irgendeiner verlasslichen Form mit ihr verbunden z...

Mit dem Zerfall des Kommunismus in Polen stellt sich die Frage nach dem Platz und der Rolle der Kirche unter den geanderten sozialen und politischen Verhaltnissen. Die letzten funfzig Jahre haben in der Art der Seelsorge und in der gesamten polnischen Gesellschaft und Kirche positive und negative Folgen hinterlassen. Aufgrund der Dokumente der 2. gesamtpolnischen Plenarsynode analysiert der Autor die inneren und ausseren Bedingungen des Wirkens der Kirche in der kommunistischen Zeit und weist au...

The real question for homiletics in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian contexts is not how we are going to prevent preaching from dying, but how we are going to help it die a good death. Preaching was not made to live. At most, preaching is a witness, a sign, a crimson X marking a demolition site. The church has developed sophisticated technologies in modernity to give preaching the semblance of life, belying the truth: preaching was born under a death sentence. It was born to die. Only...