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The Bauhaus master Johannes Ittenis one of the prominent protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few people are aware of the close links between his beginnings as an artist and his experience of landscape and nature in the town of Thun and Lake Thun. Johannes Itten gained decisive impulses for the development of his concept of art and his path towards abstraction through various stations and sojourns in Thun and its surroundings. By means of examples of the representations of nature in his early work the publication shows in scholarly depth how Itten discovered his own, very personal and later internationally famous approach to art and painting style and presents his pictorial transformation of natureextending through to the artist’s late works.

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Mit den Collationes Patrum (425-429 n. Chr.) verfasste Johannes Cassian ein Werk, das monastische Bildungsprozesse explizit thematisiert sowie implizit anstößt und begleitet. Cassian agiert dabei als Mittler zwischen verschiedenen theologischen und monastischen Traditionen. Er bringt die Bildungsskepsis des östlichen Mönchtums mit der traditionellen Vorbildung südgallischer Klostergründer ins Gespräch und kann so als ein Wegbereiter des Mönchtums als Bildungsinstitution gelten.Dorothee Schenk analysiert die vierundzwanzig Collationes , narrativ aufbereitete Gespräche mit Altvätern der ägyptischen Wüste. Dabei prüft sie, welche theologischen und anthropologischen Voraussetzungen monastischer Bildung zu berücksichtigen sind und im Rahmen welcher konkreten Methoden und Prozesse diese Bildung sich vollzieht. Schließlich werden Bilder und Konzepte untersucht, mit deren Hilfe Cassian selbst den monastischen Aufstieg bzw. Bildungsweg umschreibt.

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Faithfully Seeking Understanding provides a first-hand opportunity for English-speaking readers to encounter the thought of Johannes Kuhn (1806-1887), widely considered the greatest speculative theologian of the renowned Catholic Tubingen School. This volume presents selected essays spanning Kuhn's lengthy career. They are organized topically and edited by Grant Kaplan to give readers an approachable introduction to his thought. Despite having a significant influence on German theology and being the subject of much study in Germany, Kuhn's thought has attracted only marginal attention outside of Germany. These essays, in addition to a scholarly introduction, give evidence of the depth of Kuhn's thought and show his ongoing relevance for key fault lines in contemporary systematic and fundamental theology. The selections are taken from chapters of Kuhn's books, including his ""Catholic Dogmatics"", and from various articles that appeared in the ""Tubingen"" quarterly, ""Die theologische Quartalschrift"". They are arranged according to the following topics: faith and reason; revelation and the personhood of God; responses to Protestant liberalism; theological topics, including grace and freedom, theology and the university; and Catholic fundamental theology. Though diverse in subject, when read together the essays yield a complete theological vision that derives from a carefully constructed theological foundation.

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Kierkegaard's infamous and hugely influential philosophical work on faith, choice and sacrificeIn Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to kill his son at God's command. Kierkegaard believed Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of faith needed to make a full commitment to his religion. The conviction shown in this polemic - that an individual can have an exceptional mission in life - informed all his later writings, and was also hugely influential for both Protestant theology and the existentialist movement.Translated with an Introduction by Alastair Hannay

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Text in English and German. In the summer 1978, the cover of the magazine Bauwelt showed a photograph of an unusual building. It was tersely introduced to readers as a 'private house with office in Bad Nauheim', but it was immediately obvious that this was a built manifesto. What appeared was a strictly symmetrically articulated, steeply rising façade, emanating dignity and composure. It also seemed able to manage without windows, which further enhanced its austere elegance. And then there were the strikingly slender, sharp-angled wall elements, which seemed captivatingly graceful, or even delicate and fragile -- as though folded from paper. The fact is that, long before Gilles Deleuze had cast his spell on a new generation of aesthetically ambitious architects, Johannes Peter Hölzinger was putting his folding skills into practice as a matter of course.

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One of the most significant, but often overlooked, interpreters during the Reformation was Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531), the first-generation reformer at Basel. This book is the first to analyse and identify the significance of Oecolampadius's voice among those who shaped the way the Bible was interpreted during the pivotal time of the Reformation. The focus of this study is on Oecolampadius's 1534 commentary on the biblical book of Hebrews, which derived from his theology lectures at the University of Basel in 1529-1530. By comparing his exegesis with more than twenty-five of the most relevant interpreters from the early church to the Reformation, this work reveals several important aspects of the changes in medieval and Reformation-era exegesis that need to be incorporated into our understanding of the history of biblical interpretation. Most significantly, this work demonstrates that by recovering and adapting an Alexandrian interpretive notion of Christ as the goal of Scripture, Oecolampadius's Christoscopic reading of Scripture served as an essential step in the shift toward Reformed interpretative approaches, such as that of John Calvin. Recognizing the value of this Christoscopic approach also identifies that Oecolampadius functions as a great example of one who embodied a theological interpretation of Scripture and contributed to the way scholars speak about the use of the New Testament in the Old even today.

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Welche Rolle spielte das Evangelium in der Geschichte der Kirchen und den verschiedenen Kontexten der Frömmigkeit? Wie wurde es von Menschen in unterschiedlichen Zeiten und Lebenssituationen verstanden? Diese Fragen sind zentral für das Schaffen des Reformationshistorikers Johannes Schilling.Dieser Band vereint die Beiträge eines Kolloquiums anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags. Im Fokus stehen die Rezeptionsgeschichte des Evangeliums und die Frage, in welchem Umfang sich kirchen- und kulturgeschichtliche Reformen sowie gesellschaftliche Veränderungen auf eine vertiefte Lektüre des Evangeliums zurückführen lassen. Die Beiträge würdigen die historische Arbeit des Jubilars, in der eine kirchengeschichtliche Konzeption von Rang beschlossen liegt. Eine Gesamtbibliographie seiner Schriften rundet den Band ab.

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Das Gottesbild der Offenbarung des Johannes erweist sich bei näherem Hinsehen als ausgesprochen facettenreich und religionshistorisch wie theologisch komplex. Der Sammelband geht auf eine Tagung an der Universität Wien zurück und beleuchtet die intertextuellen Bezüge zum Alten Testament, die Vernetzungen mit der zeitgenössischen römisch-hellenistischen Leitkultur und die staats- wie sozialkritische Seite dieses Gottesbildes. Mit der Frage nach wesensmäßiger oder funktionaler Dimension der Christologie sowie den auf Christus übertragenen Gottesepitheta wird die monotheistische Verankerung des Gottesbildes der Johannesoffenbarung in den Blick genommen und durch Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zu Gottesaussagen im Johannesevangelium ergänzt. Die Perspektive der Wirkungsgeschichte in der modernen Literatur rundet den Band ab.

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Die Beziehung des um 350 n. Chr. geborenen Johannes Chrysostomus zum Apostel Paulus wurde in der älteren Forschung mit "Paulusliebe" und "Seelenverwandtschaft" beschrieben. Jenseits solcher psychologisierenden Zugänge zeichnet Andreas Heiser durch sprachliche und historische Analyse der Epitheta, die Chrysostomus für Paulus verwendet, die Inszenierung des Apostels als Musterasketen nach. Die Analyse der Paulusepitheta in vorausgehender christlicher Literatur wirft ein Licht auf die Kontinuitäten und Innovationen der Inszenierung, wenn Chrysostomus in Auseinandersetzung mit dem syrisch-antiochenischen Asketentum versucht, mittels Paulus folgenreich und nachhaltig asketische Standards in den Gemeinden Antiochiens zu etablieren.

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