Comparative religion Books
Random House USA Inc Strange Gods
Book SynopsisIn a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces that have shaped individual faith and the voluntary conversion impulse that has changed the course of Western history—for better and for worse. Covering the triumph of Christianity over paganism in late antiquity, the Spanish Inquisition, John Calvin’s dour theocracy, American plantations where African slaves had to accept their masters’ religion—along with individual converts including Augustine of Hippo, John Donne, Edith Stein, Muhammad Ali, George W. Bush and Mike Pence—Strange Gods makes a powerful case that nothing has been more important in struggle for reason than the right to believe in the God of one’s choice or to reject belief in God altogether.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Christianity and World Religions
Book SynopsisAn engaging and accessible introduction to Christianity's relationship with other world religions, addressing the questions of why the reality, and vitality, of other religions has become a challenge, and showing how Christianity is equipped to deal with religious plurality at both the doctrinal and social level. Timely and accessible, this book tackles the question of why the reality, and vitality, of other religions has become a challenge for Christianity Makes a decisive contribution to debates about the clash between Islam and the West, arguing that the major threat to religious freedoms come from secularism, and that Islam and Christianity both have the resources to develop a vibrant and pluralist public square; one informed by intellectual rigor and debate Considers the wider issue of how modernity has defined religion', and provides a substantial critique of secular ways of controlling religions Shows how Christianity is very welTrade Review“All in all, D’Costa should be commended for writing an excellent book. This work is a wonderful contribution to the conversation regarding Christianity and non-Christian religions. I highly recommend it for all persons interested in the theology of religions, as well as any Christian looking for new ways to understand the possibility of salvation for non-Christians.” (The International Journal of Public Theology, 1 December 2012) "I warmly encourage readers in each to take it up and read." (One in Christ, July 2010) "For a generation which is reasserting its Catholic identity, this thesis may serve a valuable purpose, calming the anxieties of those who, admirable, have managed to maintain an interest in the salvation of non-Christians yet are as hard put to win converts as their more pluralist co-religionists." (The Way, January 2010) "His gazetteer of these regions at the edge of the eschatological map is fascinating. The closing pages are as perceptive a meditation on what the dereliction of the cross can and cannot mean as we might expect to find in a first-rate book devoted entirely to that subject." (Chruch Times, December 2009) Table of Contents1: Words and worlds: ‘world religions’ and ‘Christian theology’. 2: Checking our baggage: twentieth century non-theological influences on our field. . 3: Who’s in and who’s out?: the salvation of the non-Christian. 4: Engaging the other: the meaning of the religions in their concrete forms. 5: The public square: the clash of religions?. 6: Conclusions.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comparative Theology
Book SynopsisDrawing upon the author's three decades of work in comparative theology, this is a pertinent and comprehensive introduction to the field, which offers a clear guide to the reader, enabling them to engage in comparative study. The author has three decades of experience of work in the field of comparative theology and is ideally placed to write this book Today's increasing religious diversity makes this a pertinent and timely publication Unique in the depth of its introduction and explanation of the discipline of comparative theology' Provides examples of how comparative theology works in the new global context of human religiosity Draws on examples specific to Hindu-Christian studies to show how it is possible to understand more deeply the wider diversity around us. Clearly guides the reader, enabling them to engage in comparative study Trade Review"This marvelous book should stand as an invitation to many. I very much hope that it is taken up.” (Harvard Theological Review, 1 April 2012) “In this context, Comparative Theology is a timely publication.” (Teaching Theology, 2012) "It's a fascinating book, all the same. I warmly recommend it ." (Theology, 1 March 2011) "Comparative Theology will be of interest to people looking for a method for interfaith dialogue that affirms the value of one's theological commitments and could serve well as a textbook for courses exploring interfaith theological discourse." (Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 1 January 2011) "But as this volume suggests, our interreligious milieu provides a new impetus not just for learning about our neighbors' faiths but learning from them. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is a most trustworthy guide." (The National Catholic Weekly, September 2010) "Clooney's book thus provides an extremely needful, as well as accessible, contribution to the furthering of this developing discipline, and as such it is a very valuable piece of scholarship." (American Theological Inquiry, July 2010)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments xi Part I Starting Points 1 1 Religious Diversity and Comparative Theology 3 Diversity around Us 4 Diversity within Us 6 Comparative Theology as a Response to Twenty-first-Century Religious Diversity 8 Distinguishing Comparative Theology from Related Disciplines 9 Comparative Theology and the Academic Study of Religions 12 Comparative Theology and Interreligious Dialogue 13 Comparative Theology and the Theology of Religions 14 Comparative Theology Autobiographically Grounded 16 On the Limits of This Book 19 Looking Ahead 22 2 In Generations Past: Some Ancestors to Today's Comparative Theology 24 Comparative Theology and the Long History of Christian Interreligious Reflection 24 Western Jesuit Scholars in India 27 Comparative Theology as a Discipline (1699– ) 30 A Moderate Criticism of Missionary Scholarship and the Older Comparative Theology 35 At the End of the Era 37 3 Comparative Theology Today 41 David Tracy 42 Keith Ward 43 Robert C. Neville 45 A Note on Raimon Panikkar 47 James Fredericks 49 New Directions 50 From Theory (Back) to Practice 52 Part II Doing Theology Comparatively 55 4 From Theory to Practice 57 The Practice of (Comparative) Religious Reading 57 Intelligent Reading 59 Commentary as a Religious Practice 60 Interreligious Commentary 63 Leaving Room for Other Readers and Their Readings 66 Necessarily Elite Choices 67 5 Getting Particular: A Christian Studies Hinduism 69 The Importance of Focus 69 (Self)Identifying This Particular Comparative Theologian 70 Making a Map, Marking the Field: Hinduism in Brief 70 Getting Particular: Mimamsa, Vedanta, and Srivaisnavism 74 Appreciating Similarities 75 Theistic Hinduism as a Useful and Comfortable Focus 77 Theology as a Hindu Discipline 78 Comparative Theology in Hinduism and Other Traditions 80 My Comparative Theology, Indebted to Hindu Theologies 83 6 "Learning to See": Comparative Practice and the Widening of Theological Vision 87 Plenary Address at the Catholic Theology Society of America, 2003 88 Near a Goddess 88 Devi's Beauty, Devi's Pleasure 90 Rediscovering Mary 93 Mary and Her Son Jesus, through Muslim Eyes 96 Sojourner Truth's Liberating God 99 All in Christ, but Still All 103 Vocation 105 After "Learning to See" 106 Part III The Fruits of Comparison 109 7 Theology After Comparison 111 Comparative Theology and the Larger Work of Theology 111 The Multiple Responsibilities of the Comparative Theologian 113 Some Theological Presuppositions Implicit in Comparative Theology 114 Comparative Theological Learning, in Particular 117 The Imago Dei and Our Destiny in Bliss 118 What "Narayana" Might Mean for the Christian 121 Encountering Goddesses 123 Comparative Theology and the Intensification of Devotion 125 Theology on a Smaller Scale 127 8 "God for Us" 128 "God for Us": An Essay 128 A Verse, a Clue 129 What Hindus Thought about the Verse 130 Living the Verse 132 The Verse and Its Wider Context 133 An Aside on How to See God and on How God Wills to Be Seen 135 Noticing One's First Citizenship: Reflection on Ignatian Insight and My Home Citizenship 139 What Ignatius Had to Say 140 Some Contemporary Views of the Intensification and Emptying of the Imagination in the Spiritual Exercises 143 Multiple Religious Belonging, Human but Also Divine 146 "God for Us" as Comparative Theology 151 9 Comparative Writer, Comparative Reader 154 The Comparative Theologian Transformed 155 The Comparative Theologian as Marginal Person 157 The Comparative Theologian's New Community 160 Tasks and Opportunities for the Reader 162 Beyond This Book 164 Notes 166 Select Bibliography 172 Index 177
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Barcharts, Inc Comparative ReligionChristianity Quick Study
Book SynopsisThis extensive 3-panel study guide presents the details of the wide variety of Christianities that exist in the world today. From Methodism to Roman Catholicism, Greek Orthodox to Mormonism, Christianity has changed from being a tiny sect in ancient Rome to the largest religion in the world. A must-have for any scholar interested in learning more about one of the world's oldest religions, this guide covers the important details that separate one group from another, along with practices and theological differences that make each group unique. Defined vocabulary words related to Christianity are also included.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion Sexuality and
Book SynopsisHow do religion, gender and sexuality interact? How have they impacted, and continue to impact, human culture? The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender brings together, for the first time, the key texts in the field. Designed as a textbook for use in a classroom setting, it offers thought-provoking selections of some of the most compelling and timely readings available today.The Reader is divided into three parts (bodies; desires; performances). Each considers, from a thematic perspective, the ways in which people have made sense of their religious and sexual experiences, the ways they imagine and talk about gender, sex and the sacred, and the multiple meanings they ascribe to them. Traditions represented include indigenous spiritualities, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Asian traditions and new religious movements. Some readings are more theoretical or historical in nature, thereby providing wide-ranging contexts for reflection and discussion. The reader inclTrade ReviewBringing together a wide-ranging collection of readings from feminist, gender, and queer studies, this volume is a useful sourcebook for those wishing an initial introduction to historical and contemporary conversations in these key areas within the study of religion. * Melissa M. Wilcox, Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies, Whitman College, USA *The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender provides a provocative, thematically rich, and theoretically sophisticated collection of essays for college and university courses dealing with the attitudes of different religious traditions toward sexuality and gender. The reader is divided into three parts: the first on “Bodies” and the ambivalent ways in which they have been and are viewed; the second on “Desires” and how they are expressed, repressed, and normalized in religious discourse; and the third on “Performances,” which underscores the performative nature of gender and its inherent instability. The essays included in the reader are all “classics” in this relatively new field of scholarship. In order to help readers engage and evaluate the various essays a series of questions has been appended to each part and a glossary of terms and concepts appears at the end. The Boomsbury Reader fills an important gap in the literature available for introductory courses on the intersection between religion and gender studies. It should have a wide appeal across the disciplines. * Allison P. Coudert, Paul and Marie Castelfranco Chair in the Study of Religion, University of California at Davis, USA *This volume does not only present a careful selection of seminal (to use a word with a sexual undertone) readings into the rich and dynamic field of religion, sexuality and gender, but it also does an excellent job in introducing these readings. The introductions to the book as a whole, the main sections, and the individual texts are extremely helpful in providing context and orientating the reader to some of the broader questions and relevant issues. Covering a wide range of religious traditions, historical periods and geographical regions, this volume is a great resource for students in undergraduate courses in religion, sexuality and gender. * Adriaan van Klinken, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsPermissions Acknowledgements Introduction to the Volume Part I: Bodies 1. Introduction 2. Stereotypes, False Images, Terrorism: The White Assault upon Black Sexuality. (Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective) Kelly Brown Douglas 3. Sin (Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America) Lynne Gerber 4. Blood, Sweat, and Urine: The Scent of Feminine Fluids in Anton Szandor LaVey’s The Satanic Witch.(International Journal for the Study of New Religious Movements)Cimminnee Holt 5. Sex (Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism) Janet Gyatso 6. The Ultimate Man (A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism) John Powers 7. Mitzvot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy and Childbirth. (People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective) Chava Weissler 8. Gendering the Ungendered Body: Hermaphrodites in Medieval Islamic Law. (Women in Middle Eastern History) Paula Sanders 9. "Mildred, Is It Fun to Be a Cripple?" The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth Century American Catholicism.” (Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them) Robert Orsi 10. Discussion Questions Part 2: Desires 1. Introduction 2. Introduction: Axiomatic (Epistemology of the Closet) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 3. Scientia Sexualis (The History of Sexuality: An Introduction: Volume I) Michel Foucault 4. Law and Desire in the Talmud (Eros and the Jews) David Biale 5. Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood.” (Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology) Michael Warner 6. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines (Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline) Amy Hollywood 7. Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese Buddhism (Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender) Paul Gordon Schalow 8. The Passions of St. Pelagius (The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology) Mark Jordan 9. Masturbation, Salvation, and Desire: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico (Journal of the History of Sexuality) Zeb Tortorici 10. Discussion Questions Part 3: Performances 1. Introduction 2. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler 3. Witches, Female Priests, and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)stabilizing Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin. (Gender and History) Carolyn Watson 4. Mama Lola and the Ezilis: Themes of Mothering and Love in Haitian Vodou (Unspoken Words: Women’s Religious Lives) Karen McCarthy Brown 5. (Per)formative Selves: The Production of Gender.” (With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India) Gayatri Reddy 6. Toward a Queer Theology of Flourishing: Transsexual Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Moral Agency (Queer Religion: LGBT Movements and Queering Religion) Jakob Hero 7. Intimacy Surveiled: Religion, Sex, and Secular Cunning (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society) Mayanthi Fernando 8. Release from Bondage: Sex, Suffering, and Sanctity (The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality) Daniel Lehrman 9. “Nakedness, Non-Violence, and Brahmacharya: Gandhi’s Experiments in Celibate Sexuality.” (Journal of the History of Sexuality) Vinay Lal 10. Discussion Questions Glossary Index
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Rose Publishing (CA) The ExMuslims Guide to Christianity
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Rose Publishing (CA) Christian Denominations
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Rowman & Littlefield Solidarity and Power
Book SynopsisRosemary Kellison is associate professor of religion at Florida State University and author of Expanding Responsibility for the Just War: A Feminist Critique (2019).Shannon Dunn is department chair and professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University and has most recently published essays in Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the Journal of Religious Ethics.
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Baker Publishing Group The Compact Guide To World Religions
Book SynopsisKeys to understanding our shrinking world A generation ago almost everyone a Christian encountered went to church--or at least knew he or she should. Today, with the world at America's doorstep, evangelical Christians more than ever need to understand their neighbors and their changing beliefs. The Compact Guide to World Religions is a complete, easy-to-use handbook of the origins, basic beliefs, and evangelistic challenges and opportunities of the world's major religions in clear, easy-to-use chapters and charts.Table of ContentsWorld religions overview -- Animism -- Buddhism -- Confucianism -- Hinduism -- Islam -- Judaism and the Jewish people -- Marxism -- New Age movement -- Secularism -- Shinto -- Taoism -- Is Jesus the only way to God? -- How can we know the Bible is the word of God?.
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Orbis Books (USA) The Raft is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a
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Barcharts, Inc Comparative Religions
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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Divine Love: Perspectives from the World's
Book Synopsis The contributors to Divine Love cover a broad spectrum of world religions, comparing and contrasting approaches among Christians of several denominations, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and adherents of traditional African religions. Each chapter focuses on the definition and conceptual boundaries of divine love; its expression and experience; its instrumentality and salience; how it can become distorted, and how it has been made manifest or restored by great historic exemplars of altruism, compassion, and unlimited love. The ultimate aim for many of the world’s major faith traditions is to love and be loved by God—to live in connection with the Divine, in union with the Beloved, in reconciliation with the Ultimate. Religious scholars Jeff Levin and Stephen G. Post have termed this connection “divine love.” In their new collection of the same name, they have invited eight of the world’s preeminent religious scholars to share their perspectives on the what, how, and why of divine love. From this diverse gathering of perspectives emerges evidence that to love and to be loved by God, to enter into a mutual and covenantal relationship with the Divine, may well offer solutions to many of the current crises around the world. Only a loving relationship with the Source of being within the context of the great faith and wisdom traditions of the world can fully inform and motivate the acts of love, unity, justice, compassion, kindness, and mercy for all beings that are so desperately required to counter the toxic influences in the world. Contributors: William C. Chittick, Vigen Guroian, Ruben L. F. Habito, William K. Mahony, John S. Mbiti, Jacob Neusner, Clark H. Pinnock, and David Tracy. Trade Review "Divine Love is an outstanding collection of wonderful essays. Here accomplished religious writers from many faith traditions share their knowledge and insight. Take and read." —Sidney Callahan, PhD, author of Created for Joy: A Christian View of Suffering "This powerful collection investigates the core of the world's great religious traditions. It is the idea of divine love—love from the divine, inspiring love for the divine, invoking a horizontal love between humans, and creating a connectedness throughout all creation. These essays not only beautifully define divine love in each of the world religions—a gift in itself—but show why it is the answer to the crises of modern life, an answer that secularism, fundamentalism, and the new therapeutic religions cannot themselves convey. This is an excellent book for both the classroom and the individual inquirer. It is an informative and inspiring read." —Don Browning, University of Chicago, and author of Reviving Christian Humanism "Jeff Levin and Stephen Post are the editors of this scholarly collection of eight essays by a group of respected religious scholars on the who, what, when, and where of divine love." —Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and PracticeTable of Contents Foreword / ix Seyyed Hossein Nasr Acknowledgments / xiii Introduction: Divine Love in the World’s Religious Traditions / 3 Jeff Levin 1: “If God Did Not Love Me, God Would Not Have Made Me!”: Exploring Divine Love in African Religion / 23 John S. Mbiti 2: “In the Beginning, Love Entered That One”: Divine Love from a Perspective Informed by Vedic Hindu Thought / 56 William K. Mahony 3: Divine Love in Classical Judaism / 80 Jacob Neusner 4: Wisdom into Compassion: Buddhism in Practice / 108 Ruben L. F. Habito 5: God as Infinite Love: A Roman Catholic Perspective / 131 David Tracy 6: Divine and Human Love in Islam / 163 William C. Chittick 7: The Humanity of Divine Love: The Divinity of Human Love / 201 Vigen Guroian 8: I Love, Therefore I Am: A Relational and Charismatic Model of Love / 219 Clark H. Pinnock Conclusion: Divine Love and Human Dignity / 237 Stephen G. Post Contributors / 255 Index / 261
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University Press of New England Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies Judaism in
Book SynopsisThe role of Judaism in the formation of Western aesthetics
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Shambhala Publications Inc On Thomas Merton
Book SynopsisFrom the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings.“If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.”So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of mid-twentieth-century American Catholicism. Approaching Merton “writer to writer,” Gordon illuminates his life and work through his letters, journals, autobiography, and fiction. Pope Francis has celebrated Merton as “a man of dialogue,” and here Gordon shows that the dialogue was as much internal as external—an unending conversation, and at times a heated conflict, between Merton the monk and Merton the writer. Rich with excerpts from Merton’s own writing, On Thomas Merton produces an intimate portrait of a man who “lived life in all its imperfectability, reaching toward it in exaltation, pulling back in anguish, but insisting on the primacy of his praise as a man of God.”
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Bahai Publishing Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah
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Sophia Institute Press From Star Wars to Superman: Christ Figures in Science Fiction and Superhero Films
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Rose Publishing World Religions Made Easy
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P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed) Christianity and New Religious Movements
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Rockridge Press World Religions: A Beginner's Guide: Questions
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Catholic Answers Press The Faith Unboxed
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Fidelis Publishing, LLC The Apostate: My Search for Truth
Book SynopsisThis book takes you on Mark’s journey as he tries to prove to himself Islam is the true religion. It shows the horror he feels as he faces the truth. It finally takes you to his greatest discovery, Jesus is love, and Jesus is the God he was searching for his entire life. Having now lived and ministered in America for years, he also has a message for America about the dangers to which we are headed based on his intimate knowledge of life in a dictatorial country (Egypt) and what he sees here.
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Fons Vitae,US The Spiritual Ascent: A Compendium of the World's
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Phanes Press,U.S. Alchemical Mandala
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Fons Vitae,US The Thread-Spirit: The Symbolism of Knotting and
Book SynopsisBased on comprehensive research of textile arts and traditional symbolism, this compendium explores how societies, in the absence of writing, imparted wisdom to the next generation through the use of objects and practices of daily life, namely fibre arts - knotting, weaving, spinning, basketry, among others.
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Bahai Publishing The Kitab-I-Iqan: The Book of Certitude
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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Noble Purpose: Joy Of Living A Meaningful Life
Book Synopsis This book describes the personal and spiritual benefits of living life in a way that matters, with an awareness that one's life can reflect a sense of higher purpose no matter what the circumstances. The book draws upon religious, philosophical, and literary writings to show how humans in many cultures and historical epochs have pursued noble purposes by answering God's call as each hears it. Noble purpose can be pursued both in heroic acts and in everyday behavior. The book shows how ordinary people—teachers, business professionals, parents, citizens—can ennoble what they do by being mindful of its deepest meaning. It also points out that humility is a necessary virtue for those who pursue a noble purpose. Great heroes are bold, courageous, and sometimes audacious in their determination to succeed; but they are also humble in their awareness of their own limitations. Moreover, a person must never violate basic moral laws while pursuing a noble purpose—the means must be as moral as the ends. Purpose brings coherence and satisfaction to people's lives, producing joy in good times and resilience in hard times. It also presents a paradox: hard work in service of noble purpose that transcends personal gain is a surer path to happiness than the self-indulgent pursuit of happiness for its own sake. The closer we come to God's purpose for us, the more satisfied our lives become. From the inspiration and examples conveyed in this book, we learn that all individuals have the capacity to discover their own God-given abilities, to learn the world's need for the services they can provide, and to experience joy in serving society and God in their special ways. As theologian Frederick Buechner writes, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
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Ozark Mountain Publishing God is a Woman: The Path to Singlediversity
Book SynopsisIt may well be that you label the book in front of you as a natural continuation of the stream of thoughts in those fragments where your thoughts stopped ? or where your life stopped. It may well be that you are caught off-guard and unprepared in front of a text offered by the book God is a Woman. You may find as well, by reading the text which follows, that your religious, spiritual or national feelings cherished by you for years are shaken and questioned too. All in all, this book will not leave you indifferent. And that is our only goal ? that after you read the first five chapters of the book you simply do not remain indifferent. And whether you will keep on reading the book with enthusiasm or throw it away from you in resignation, let it be your choice only. Even if we could we do not have the intention to make an influence on that decision ? anytime and anywhere. Except that we propose that together with us you try to tread on your own Path of Onedifference. (Or Singlediversity)
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Rutgers University Press Stained Glass Ceilings: How Evangelicals Do
Book SynopsisStained Glass Ceilings speaks to the intersection of gender and power within American evangelicalism by examining the formation of evangelical leaders in two seminary communities.Southern Baptist Theological Seminary inspires a vision of human flourishing through gender differentiation and male headship. Men practice “Godly Manhood," and are taught to act as the "head" of a family, while their wives are socialized into codes of “Godly Womanhood" that prioritize prescribed gender roles. This power structure privileges men yet offers agency to their wives in women-centered spaces and through marital relationships. Meanwhile, Asbury Theological Seminary promises freedom from gendered hierarchies. Appealing to a story of gender-blind equality, Asbury welcomes women into classrooms, administrative offices, and pulpits. But the institution’s construction of egalitarianism obscures the fact that women are rewarded for adapting to an existing male-centered status quo rather than for developing their own voices as women. Featuring high-profile evangelicals such as Al Mohler and Owen Strachan, along with young seminarians poised to lead the movement in the coming decades, Stained Glass Ceilings illustrates the liabilities of white evangelical toolkits and argues that evangelical culture upholds male-centered structures of power even as it facilitates meaning and identity.Trade ReviewIn this remarkably perceptive study, Lisa Weaver Swartz shows us precisely how male power is perpetuated and embodied in white evangelical institutions. She describes this process in captivating detail, both at the complementarian stronghold of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and at egalitarian Asbury Seminary, and the result is an altogether fresh, sometimes surprising, and always deeply illuminating examination of gender, power, and American evangelicalism. -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez * author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation *"Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book takes readers into the hallways and classrooms of places that shape – through what is said and what is practiced – the lives of evangelical pastors. Both the differences between the seminaries and their similarities may surprise you. How they create gendered religious worlds is worth knowing about." -- Nancy Ammerman * author of Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention *"In a brilliant and compelling narrative, Lisa Weaver-Swartz shows how patriarchy persists and adapts even in spaces supportive of women in ministry. Her research explains why women defend complementarianism as well as why the gender-blindness of egalitarianism fails. Regardless of your theology, you should read this book. I promise it will help you better understand the plight of evangelical women." -- Beth Allison Barr * author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth *In this remarkably perceptive study, Lisa Weaver Swartz shows us precisely how male power is perpetuated and embodied in white evangelical institutions. She describes this process in captivating detail, both at the complementarian stronghold of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and at egalitarian Asbury Seminary, and the result is an altogether fresh, sometimes surprising, and always deeply illuminating examination of gender, power, and American evangelicalism. -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez * author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation *"Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this book takes readers into the hallways and classrooms of places that shape – through what is said and what is practiced – the lives of evangelical pastors. Both the differences between the seminaries and their similarities may surprise you. How they create gendered religious worlds is worth knowing about." -- Nancy Ammerman * author of Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention *"In a brilliant and compelling narrative, Lisa Weaver-Swartz shows how patriarchy persists and adapts even in spaces supportive of women in ministry. Her research explains why women defend complementarianism as well as why the gender-blindness of egalitarianism fails. Regardless of your theology, you should read this book. I promise it will help you better understand the plight of evangelical women." -- Beth Allison Barr * author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Male and Female: Gendered Discourse at Southern Seminary 2 Beard Oil and Fine China: Embodied Practice at Southern Seminary3 All One in Christ: Gender-Blind Discourse at Asbury Seminary 4 Men, Churchwomen, and Wives: Embodied Practice at Asbury Seminary 5 Conclusion IndexAbout the Author
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Brepols N.V. Constructions of Gender in Late Antique
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Brepols Publishers Gnosticism and Its Metamorphoses
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Offenbarung und Epiphanie: Band 1: Grundlagen des
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jahwe und die anderen Götter: Studien zur
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Antike und Christentum: Gesammelte Aufsätze IV
Book SynopsisDer Band enthält dreizehn Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1990-97, die teils in deutscher und teils in englischer Sprache verfaßt sind. Der Titel zeigt die schwerpunktmäßige Thematik der Einzelstudien an: die urchristliche Literatur in der Auseinandersetzung mit Antike und Christentum. Eine erste Gruppe ist der Erforschung des historischen Jesus gewidmet, eine zweite den Problemen der Entstehung des Christentums, eine dritte der nichtchristlichen religiösen Welt des Hellenismus (besonders Magie, Heroenkult, Hermetik). Im vierten Teil erörtert Hans Dieter Betz die berühmten orphischen Goldplättchen und lenkt zu Paulus zurück. Den Abschluß bildet eine grundsätzliche Darstellung der Problematik von Antike und Christentum.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Frühes Christentum im antiken Strahlungsfeld:
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Samarien und die Samaritai bei Lukas: Eine Studie
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Frühes Christentum im antiken Strahlungsfeld:
Book SynopsisAus Rezensionen: "Es war ein glücklicher Gedanke des um die Thematik Antike und Christentum vielfach verdienten Gelehrten, diese Aufsatzsammlung zusammenzustellen, die mit Nachträgen, Stellen-, Personen- und Sachregister versehen ein Arbeitsinstrument erster Ordnung für alle Mitforschenden darstellt."Johannes B. Bauer in Grazer Beiträge / Zeitschrift für die Klassische Altertumswissenschaft Bd. 18 (1992), S. 303-304
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Le Repas de Dieu / Das Mahl Gottes: 4. Symposium
Book SynopsisCe livre rassemble des contributions présentées par des professeurs des Universités de Strasbourg, de Tübingen et d'Upsal à un colloque qui eut lieu à Strasbourg en 2002. Il fait suite à des volumes sur "Le Trône de Dieu" (1993), "La main de Dieu" (1997), et "La Cité de Dieu" (2000). Les contributions traitent du thème complexe du "Repas de Dieu" sous des aspects d'histoire des religions proche-orientale et judéo-hellénistique, d'exégèse biblique, de patristique, d'histoire de la Réforme et du judaïsme médiéval.Das Buch versammelt die Beiträge eines Straßburger Symposiums von Wissenschaftlern der Universitäten Straßburg, Tübingen, Uppsala im Jahre 2002. Dem Sammelwerk gingen die Symposiumsbände "Le Trône de Dieu / Der Thron Gottes" (1993), "La Main de Dieu / Die Hand Gottes" (1997) und "La Cité de Dieu / Die Stadt Gottes" (2000) voraus. Die Studien behandeln das komplexe Thema des "Mahls Gottes" unter Aspekten der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-jüdischen Religionsgeschichte, der Bibelexegese und Patristik sowie der Geschichte der Reformation und des mittelalterlichen Judentums.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Griechen - Byzantiner - Semiten - Muslime:
Book SynopsisCarsten Colpe untersucht eine kulturhistorisch wichtige aber oft verkannte Epoche. Als Ziel dieser Epoche hat sich die Bezeichnung für das Gegenteil von Hellenisierung eingebürgert: die Enthellenisierung. Am eindeutigsten ist sie daran zu erkennen, dass die griechische Sprache mehr und mehr außer Gebrauch kommt. An ihre Stelle treten u. a. zehn semitische und vier iranische Dialekte. Aber auch in Institutionen, Kunst, Religionen, Sprachverhältnissen und Literaturen gibt es zunächst einen mächtigen griechischen Impuls, dem in verschiedenen Abschnitten sein Schwund folgt. Der Autor zeigt, dass es inhaltliche Grundlagen von Enthellenisierung gibt, legt aber auch dar, dass die Begriffsbestimmung schwierig ist. Um Beispiele zu nennen: Die griechische Plastik verliert auf dem Wege nach Osten immer mehr von ihrer stilistischen Eigenart (Apollo sieht schließlich nicht mehr wie ein griechischer Heros aus, sondern soll Buddha darstellen); die griechische Polis büßt ihren charakteristischen Grundriss ein; die platonische Philosophie existiert ohne ein Ideensystem weiter und wird langsam zu einer Grundwissenschaft der Mathematik. Die Geschichte der Enthellenisierung wird unter dem Titel einer Phänomenologie aufgefasst, die in 21 Abschnitte eingeteilt wird. Diese reichen von der Hochblüte des Hellenismus im 3./2. Jahrhundert vor Christus, über signifikante byzantinische- und asiatische Zeugnisse bis zum Aufgehen des Hellenismus in Nordindien (17. Jahrhundert).
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Frühes Christentum im antiken Strahlungsfeld:
Book SynopsisMit dem vorliegenden Band setzt Wolfgang Speyer seine Studien zum Verhältnis von Antike und Christentum in Form von Aufsätzen fort.Sein Anliegen ist es, die Unterschiede, aber auch die Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den polytheistischen Religionen des Altertums und den monotheistischen Offenbarungsreligionen Judentum und Christentum verständlicher zu machen. Er zeigt sowohl Kontinuitäten als auch Brüche im geistigen Erbe von Antike und Christentum seit dem Spätmittelalter auf und verdeutlicht, warum die Trennung von christlicher Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter aus seiner Sicht falsch ist. In philologischen, historischen, religionswissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Studien geht er dabei grundsätzlich davon aus, daß der Mensch wesenhaft ein 'homo religiosus', die Religiosität also auch der Quellgrund für Philosophie und Wissenschaft ist.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Das Menschenbild des Thomasevangeliums:
Book SynopsisDas Thomasevangelium zieht eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit auf sich. Bei keiner anderen außerkanonischen Schrift wird derartig kontrovers diskutiert, ob sie frühe Jesus-Traditionen enthält, die noch nicht von den Deutungsversuchen des frühen Christentums überformt sind. Lange Zeit wurde die Forschung durch die Frage dominiert, ob sich auf der Basis der koptischen Übersetzung und den griechischen Fragmenten des Thomasevangeliums frühere Textstadien rekonstruieren lassen, die neue Erkenntnisse über die Worte und Taten Jesu und über die Identitätsfindungsprozesse der frühen Jesusbewegung ermöglichen. Eine vernachlässigte Aufgabe besteht jedoch darin, das koptische Thomasevangelium als ein eigenständiges Zeugnis zu würdigen. Bisher wurde auch nur selten analysiert, zu welchen konkreten gnostischen Traditionsbildungen sich Bezüge erkennen lassen und in welchem Verhältnis es zu weiteren gnostischen Originalzeugnissen steht. Dieser Aufgabe widmet sich Enno Edzard Popkes, indem er das Menschenbild des Thomasevangeliums analysiert, in welchem das theologische Profil dieses Werkes eindrücklich zu Tage tritt. Dabei zeigt sich, daß das koptische Thomasevangelium inhaltlich-sachlich und argumentations- und kompositionstechnisch als ein gnostisches Werk verstanden werden kann. Es handelt sich nicht nur um ein 'frühgnostisches' Werk, in welchem lediglich ansatzweise Konzeptionen vorliegen, die in späteren gnostischen Traditionsbildungen ausgearbeitet werden. Die einzig vollständig erhaltene Fassung des Thomasevangeliums setzt vielmehr ein bereits voll entwickeltes gnostisches Menschenbild voraus.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Die Religion des Imperium Romanum: Koine und
Book SynopsisWelchen Einfluss hatte die Ausbildung des Imperium Romanum auf die Religionsgeschichte des dadurch integrierten Raumes? In einer Reihe von Fällen unterstützt religiöse Kommunikation die neuen Herrschaftsstrukturen, Rom kann sich hier Mechanismen zunutze machen, die schon in hellenistischer Zeit ausgebildet wurden. Der überraschende Befund der hier vorgelegten Untersuchungen reicht aber weiter: Die Diffusion von religiösen Zeichen und Praktiken wie die Ausbildung universaler Züge in den regionalen Kulturen wie der römischen Religion im besonderen legen es nahe, von einer 'Koine', von der Religion des Imperium Romanum im Singular zu sprechen. Diese Koine findet weder an den administrativen Trennlinien der Provinzen, an den Rändern ethnischer Gruppen noch an unterschiedlichen Überzeugungen und Gottheiten eine strikte Grenze, sie umschließt Kleinasien wie Nordafrika, den Donauraum wie Griechenland und Italien. In dieser Koine agieren Intellektuelle und religiöse Spezialisten, Architekten und Heilssucher. Zugleich ist, bei aller Verbreitung und Strukturähnlichkeit, die religiöse Vielfalt nicht zu übersehen. Es existieren tiefgreifende Unterschiede, die zu Konfrontationen führen. Akzeptanz und Repression, Toleranz und erzwungene Homogenität stehen nebeneinander, lokale Pluralität und gewalttätige Konfrontation lassen sich nachweisen. Historisch spannen die Beiträge in deutscher, englischer und französischer Sprache einen Bogen vom zweiten Jh. v. Chr. bis zum 4. Jh. n. Chr.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Theokratie und theokratischer Diskurs: Die Rede
Book SynopsisDie Autoren untersuchen das Verhältnis von Religion und Politik kultur- und epochenübergreifend anhand eines Extremfalls: der Theokratie, das heißt der Idee einer Gottesherrschaft auf Erden. Diese Idee gehört zur Tradition der drei großen monotheistischen Religionen. Ihre Überzeugungskraft unterliegt indes historischen Konjunkturen: Phasen des Auf- und Abschwungs, der Verschärfung und Entschärfung wechseln einander ab. Weil das theokratische Argument fest in der religiösen Tradition verankert ist, kann es in Identitätskrisen stets aktualisiert werden. In den einzelnen Beiträgen, die sich auf historische Konstellationen vom pharaonischen Ägypten und biblischen Israel bis in die Gegenwart beziehen, wird danach gefragt, unter welchen Bedingungen das theokratische Argument auf fruchtbaren Boden fällt, welche Akteure oder Statusgruppen sich des theokratischen Arguments bedienen, und welche politischen und gesellschaftlichen Folgewirkungen damit jeweils verknüpft sind.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Teilhabe-Ontologie und interreligiöser Dialog im
Book SynopsisDie platonische Teilhabe-Ontologie besitzt in Antike und Mittelalter ein konkretes Potential für einen philosophisch begründeten interreligiösen Dialog, das auch heute Beachtung verdient. Das Buch befragt u.a. Platon, Aristoteles, Origenes, Plotin, Augustinus, Proklos, Boethius, Thomas von Aquin, Nikolaus von Kues auf den Teilhabe-Gedanken und ihre Argumente, ob die Vielfalt mono- und polytheistischer Religionen nur als trennende Diskrepanz oder positiv als Spiegel differenter Perspektiven unterschiedlicher Menschen zu begreifen ist. Im Zentrum steht das Werk "Über den Frieden im Glauben" des Nikolaus von Kues: Religionen besitzen hier jeweils einen partikularen Zugang zu Gott, partizipieren in unterschiedlicher Weise an Gottes schöpferischer Vernunft, so dass Cusanus z.B. zeigen kann, warum die Kritik des Islams an der christlichen Trinitätslehre einerseits berechtigt erscheint, andererseits diese nicht in ihrem Kern trifft. Divergente Positionen können so durch das Teilhabe-Theorem vermittelt werden, welches der Neuplatoniker Proklos vollständig entwickelt hatte: Das Theorem ermöglicht, Proklos' oft kritisierte Henadenlehre philosophisch sinnvoll zu interpretieren, in der er mono- und polytheistische Aspekte zusammendenkt.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Zwischen Kulturprotestantismus und völkischer
Book SynopsisAls Urheber der Formel einer "Germanisierung des Christentums" wird der protestantische Theologe und Schriftsteller Arthur Bonus (1864-1941) immer wieder zu den Vorreitern deutsch-christlicher Theologien zwischen Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik gezählt. Christopher König analysiert erstmalig Bonus' weitverstreutes Werk und ordnet es in die Kontroversen um eine Reform von Kirche, Gesellschaft, Nation und Weltanschauung ein, die im intellektuellen Umfeld des Kulturprotestantismus um 1900 geführt wurden. Mit der ebenso polarisierenden wie suggestiven Forderung nach einem "deutschen Glauben" rebellierte Bonus gegen die Grundlagen von evangelischer Theologie und Kirche und sagte Historismus und liberalem Denken den Kampf an.Gestützt auf reiches Archivmaterial macht Christopher König ein dichtes Brief- und Kommunikationsnetzwerk um die Zeitschrift "Die Christliche Welt" sichtbar, das bedeutende Theologen wie Martin Rade oder Adolf Harnack, Politiker wie Friedrich Naumann und oppositionelle Religionsdeuter wie Johannes Müller-Elmau oder Friedrich Gogarten mit der nationalen Kultur- und Lebensreformbewegung - etwa der Zeitschrift "Der Kunstwart" und einigen Autoren des Eugen Diederichs Verlags - verband und sich erst nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg auflöste.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Übertragungen heiliger Texte in Judentum,
Book SynopsisDie kanonischen Grundtexte in Judentum, Christentum und Islam zeichnen sich - in unterschiedlichem Maße - durch einen Anspruch auf Unveränderlichkeit aus, bedürfen jedoch der aktualisierenden Exegese. Nicht zuletzt deshalb werden sie in andere Sprachen oder Medien übertragen. Die Analyse der religiösen und gesellschaftlichen Normen, die bei solchen Übertragungen wirksam werden, eröffnet einen Zugang zur jeweiligen Vorstellung vom heiligen Text. Diesen Ansatz verfolgt der religionsübergreifend angelegte Band in Fallstudien zu verschiedenen Zeit- und Kulturräumen (vom Alexandria des 3. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. bis hin zum zeitgenössischen Indonesien). In der Zusammenschau zeigen die breit gefächerten Beiträge, dass sich trotz der unterschiedlichen Auratisierung der kanonischen Texte in den einzelnen Religionen analoge Problemstellungen bei der Übertragung heiliger Texte finden lassen.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Selected Letters
Book SynopsisWilliam Robertson Smith (1846-1894) is generally considered to be among the most important pioneers of Biblical Criticism, Social Anthropology and Comparative Religious Studies. This volume contains ca. 400 letters to his family, friends, and colleagues, spanning the period from his early student days in 1863 to his final illness in 1894 and covering a wide range of topics. Among the recipients of the letters are his parents, his siblings, his close friends and confidants John Sutherland Black and Thomas Martin Lindsay, his teacher in Arabic, Paul de Lagarde, and such notable men of learning as the Old Testament scholars Julius Wellhausen and Abraham Kuenen, the Arabists Jan de Goeje and Theodor Nöldeke, the politician James Bryce, the social anthropologist James George Frazer, the artist George Reid, the physicist Peter Guthrie Tait, and the mathematicians Felix Klein and Max Noether.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Liberale Theologie heute - Liberal Theology Today
Book SynopsisMit dem Namen "Liberale Theologie" verbindet sich der Aufbruch protestantischer Strömungen im 19. Jahrhundert, die sich um eine Vermittlung zwischen der Moderne und dem Christentum bemühten.Offensichtlich ist an dem Programm liberaler Theologie etwas von bleibender Anziehungskraft für alle, die das Christentum mit einer zwar nicht unkritischen, aber letztlich doch positiven Bewertung der Moderne in Einklang bringen möchten. Dieser Band vereint Beiträge der internationalen Tagung "Liberale Theologie heute - Liberal Theology Today", die vom 18. bis 21. Juli 2018 an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München stattfand. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der internationalen Perspektive. Galt die liberale Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert als ein vorrangig deutsches Phänomen, so ist sie schnell zu einem internationalen Faktor geworden und bis heute geblieben. Die Beiträge renommierter Vertreterinnen und Vertreter bieten eine Bestandsaufnahme der liberalen Theologie, um gegenwärtige Herausforderungen auszuloten. In welchen Kontexten bezieht man sich wie auf das Programm liberaler Theologie, welche Ideen kommen darin zum Vorschein und was lässt sich daraus an Zukunftsmöglichkeiten des Christentums ableiten?
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Das glaubende Gottesvolk: Der Hebräerbrief in
Book SynopsisHäufig wird dem Hebräerbrief in wissenschaftlichen sowie kirchlichen Verlautbarungen ein negatives Verhältnis zum Judentum bescheinigt oder es wird ihm vorgeworfen, eine „judenfeindliche“ Wirkungsgeschichte durch seine Theologie begünstigt zu haben. Doch anders als häufig kritisiert, wird die alttestamentliche Tradition sowie die Bedeutung Israels im Hebräerbrief gerade nicht marginalisiert. Vielmehr zeigt Andreas-Christian Heidel exegetisch auf, dass sich durch eine israeltheologische Relektüre des theologischen Gesamtzeugnisses des Hebräerbriefs, ausgehend von Hebr 11,39–40, ein ekklesiologischer Heilsplan Gottes in Sachanalogie zu Röm 9–11 formulieren lässt. Dessen Ziel ist die eschatologische Vereinigung des einen glaubenden Gottesvolkes, welches sich durch alle Zeiten, Orte und menschliche Identitäten als ecclesia invisibilis hindurchzieht. Diese Einheit wird durch das Bekenntnis zu Jesus als Christus nicht infrage gestellt, sondern vielmehr darin verbürgt.
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