Search results for ""Author Vandenhoeck"
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Alfred Adlers Wiener Kreise in Politik, Literatur und Psychoanalyse: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Individualpsychologie
Alfred Adler war in seiner FrÃ"hzeit, vor und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, stark interessiert sowohl an gesellschaftspolitischen als auch an literarischen Fragen, so dass er offen war fÃ"r moderne, avantgardistische, auch oppositionell-politische Strömungen und Zeitgenossen. So wird hier eine ganze Reihe von spannenden, unerwarteten Querverbindungen aufgedeckt, die Einblicke in die Zeit und ein facettenreiches Bild von Adler ergeben. Aus der Verankerung Alfred Adlers in seinem intellektuellen, kÃ"nstlerischen, politischen Umfeld in Wien hatte sich die Adler'sche Schule bis in die 1930er Jahren weiterentwickelt.Das Buch versammelt vorwiegend bereits verstreut veröffentlichte und hier grundlegend Ã"berarbeitete Aufsätze zu Adlers kulturpolitischem Auftreten und dem seiner Umgebung. Es geht um das Verhältnis zur Psychoanalyse, um seinen Stand in der Wissenschaft, um Literaturinterpretation, um die expressionistische, sozialistische und pazifistische Szene, um Adlers Einstellung zum Ersten Weltkrieg und um Adlers engere Anhänger, die sehr selbstständig eigene Sichtweisen entwickelten und auch politisch radikale Phasen durchlebten.
£33.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Verstümmelte Körper?: Lebenswelten und soziale Praktiken von Kastratensängern in Mitteleuropa 1712-1844
Verstümmelte Körper? Kastratensänger standen bislang vor allem im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsinteresses der Musik- und Theaterwissenschaften. Dabei wurden vor allem ihr Wirken auf den Bühnen des italienischen Musiktheaters des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts oder die Rezeption der hohen Männerstimme auf das barocke Publikum beleuchtet. Die vorliegende geschichtswissenschaftliche Studie konzentriert sich hingegen auf die Personen als soziale Akteure in der Spätphase dieses Phänomens im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert, wobei exemplarisch vier mitteleuropäische Fürstenhöfe (Wien, München, Dresden, Stuttgart) in den Blick genommen werden. In detaillierten Analysen der Lebenswelten des Hofes und der Residenzstadt fächert die Autorin auf, welchen hohen Stellenwert Kastratensänger innerhalb der höfischen Machtrepräsentation bis zum Schluss besaßen, wie sie sich innerhalb höfischer Anstellungsstrukturen immer wieder erneut positionierten, mit den Bewohnern der Residenzstädte interagierten und welche wichtigen Rollen sie gegenüber Familienangehörigen einnahmen. Insbesondere durch die Untersuchung des individuellen Umgangs mit dem vermeintlichen körperlichen Defizit kann sie zeigen, dass die Annahme, Kastraten seien in der Endphase ihres Bestehens grundsätzlich als defizitäre "verstümmelte Körper" wahrgenommen worden, revidiert werden muss. Auf diese Weise leistet die Autorin einen innovativen Beitrag zur Kultur- und Geschlechtergeschichte am Übergang von der Frühen Neuzeit ins 19. Jahrhundert.
£71.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG A Commentary on the Aspis of Menander: Part One: Lines 1-298
This commentary on the comedy Aspis des Menander mainly deals with text-critical and linguistic questions. The introduction also deals with observations on the dramaturgy, the actors and the Attic law. It provides highly insightful insights into Menander's linguistic art and uses the analysis of numerous parallel texts to refer to the gradations of expression from colloquial colloquialism to paratro-tragedy, which are used in accordance with the dramatic situation. As a result, the commentary is very suitable as an introduction to the Menander reading, but also offers considerable new knowledge for the connoisseur.
£57.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG In God's Custody: The Church, a History of Divine Protection; a Study of John Calvin's Ecclesiology based on his Commentary on the Minor Prophets
Frederik A.V. Harms examines Calvin's ecclesiology based on his commentary on the Little Prophets from 15571559. Harms presents Calvin's view of the church from a historical-systematic perspective. His study of the great reformer's ecclesiology is accompanied by two historical parts. On the one hand, Harms Calvin offers historical context from 1558 to 1559, when he gave lectures on the Little Prophets. On the other hand, Harms provides an overview of the history of interpretation of the Little Prophets from the early church to the first generation of reformed orthodoxy.
£85.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Ein Freund des Wortes: Festschrift Udo RÃ"terswörden
Der Sammelband enthält knapp dreiÃig substantielle Artikel namhafter zumeist alttestamentlicher Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler beider Konfessionen und unterschiedlicher Generationen zu den fÃ"r die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft grundlegenden Themen Theologie, Philologie, Recht und Geschichte des antiken Israel. Die LektÃ"re der einzelnen Beiträge zeigt, dass diese Bereiche in vielfältiger Weise miteinander in Beziehung stehen und einander beeinflussen. Damit wird das Werk von Udo RÃ"terswörden zugleich aufgenommen, gewÃ"rdigt und weitergedacht.
£94.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Ancient Perspectives on Paul
While the so-called New perspective in Paul has been in the focus of New Testament exegesis for more than 25 years now, ancient interpretations of Pauline texts and ideas have been neglected widely. The present volume aims to fill this gap. Its articles concentrate on three different foci of modern exegesis: interpretations of Pauls conversion, his ideas about the relation of grace and works and the fate of Israel. Several additional articles contrast these ancient perspectives with answers of modern exegesis.
£120.59
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Alternative Voices: A Plurality Approach for Religious Studies. Essays in Honor of Ulrich Berner
When scholarship presents the histories, belief systems, and ritual patterns of specific religious groups, it often privileges victorious and elite fractions of those communities to the detriment and neglect of alternative, dissonant, and resurgent voices. The contributions in this volume, which include case studies on various religious and academic contexts, illustrate the importance of listening to those alternative voices for the study of religion.
£128.69
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Europa und die Schlafkrankheit: Koloniale Seuchenbekämpfung, europäische Identitäten und moderne Medizin 18901950
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts verwüsteten Epidemien der Schlafkrankheit weite Teile der europäischen Kolonialgebiete in Afrika. Diese akute Krise in den Krankheitsgebieten setzte eine ganze Reihe von Entwicklungen in Gang, deren Reichweite sich keineswegs auf den afrikanischen Kontinent beschränkte. Während in den Kolonien Zwangsuntersuchungen und -behandlungen der afrikanischen Bevölkerung eingeführt, Verkehrswege kontrolliert und ganze Landstriche evakuiert und umgestaltet wurden, formierte sich in Europa die Tropenmedizin als avantgardistisches Projekt an einer Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik. Stellte die Konfrontation mit der Krankheit die Kolonialmächte zwar vor massive Schwierigkeiten, so öffnete sie gleichzeitig ein koloniales Experimentierfeld für Biomedizin, Pharma-Industrie und Administrationen. Die Studie beschreibt die Entstehung dieses neuen Forschungs- und Interventionsfeldes als eine europäische Verflechtungsgeschichte. Was sagen die Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Krankheit über die imperiale Prägung moderner Biomedizin? Welche Dynamiken kolonialer Herrschaft und internationaler Politik lassen sich an ihnen ablesen? Anhand dieser Fragen öffnet die Studie das Thema nicht nur für medizinhistorische Zugriffe, sondern auch für aktuelle Fragen der Global- und Zeitgeschichte.
£66.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Khirbet Qumrân and Aïn Feshkha IV A: Qumran Cave 11Q: Archaeology and New Scroll Fragments
Text in English and French. Qumran Cave 11Q was discovered by Bedouin in 1956. In the cave, remains of around 30 Dead Sea Scrolls were found, a few of them in very good state of preservation (the Temple Scroll, the Psalm Scroll, the Paleo Leviticus Scroll, and the Targum Job Scroll). The cave was excavated by Roland de Vaux (Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Française, Jerusalem) and Gerald L. Harding (Department of Antiquities of Jordan) in 1956; later by Joseph Patrich (University of Haifa) in 1988, and by Marcello Fidanzio and Dan Bahat (ISCAB FTL and Universitedella Svizzera Italiana) in 2017. Due to Roland de Vaux's premature death, the archaeology of Cave 11Q has never been published. This volume presents the final report on the 1956, 1988 and 2017 excavations at Cave 11Q. Next to discussing the physical characteristics and stratigraphy of the cave and offering a full analysis of non-textual finds, the volume for the first time presents many tiny manuscript fragments found in storerooms during recent work. These fragments, most of which were collected during 1956 excavation, have not been known until now. The volume, therefore, offers the final report of Cave 11Q excavations as well as the editio princeps of the new fragments, followed by a reevaluation of the entire set of texts found in this famous cave.
£342.89
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte: Literarische FortfÃ"hrung der Disputation und Resonanzräume reformatorischen Denkens
Die Dialogflugschriften der frÃ"hen Reformationszeit wurden in der bisherigen kirchengeschichtlichen Forschung nur wenig beachtet. Susanne Schuster erschließt das Corpus der Dialogflugschriften und ordnet die dialogischen Flugschriften in den kommunikativen Kontext der Reformation als Medienereignis ein. Die Autorin beschreibt Dialoge als literarische Fortsetzung der akademischen Disputation und begreift diese damit als Teil der Umformung, den die Disputation in der frÃ"hen Reformation bis hin zur städtischen Disputation durchlaufen hat. Die Fiktionalität bot den Dialogen die Möglichkeit, diskursive Welten zu öffnen und variabler als der Traktat zu sein. Auf der theologischen Ebene sind die Dialoge Inanspruchnahme des allgemeinen Priestertums und des Schriftprinzips. Die Dialogflugschriften erscheinen als Resonanzräume reformatorischen Denkens.
£75.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Pietismus: Ausgewählte Studien
Die Wirkungen des Pietismus als der wichtigsten Reformbewegung des deutschen Protestantismus, der im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung erfasst hat, auf die deutschsprachige Literatur zwischen Sturm und Drang und Romantik sind in Umrissen erforscht und bekannt. Sie erklären grundlegende Unterschiede gegenüber den europäischen Nachbarkulturen, die spezifische Eigenart der deutschen Aufklärung, erste Anstöße zu konfessioneller Toleranz, auch gegenüber den Juden, Traditionen empfindsamer Innigkeit, Herzenssprache und inspirativ-ekstatischer Poetologie. Gegenüber den theologischen sind aber literaturwissenschaftliche Zugriffe auf das pietistische Schrifttum selbst, auf die pietistische Lyrik, die Lebenszeugnisse, Bibelübersetzungen, auf die pietistische Sondersprache und ihre Argumente, noch rar. Eine Auswahl einschlägiger Pilotstudien des auf diesem Feld mannigfach hervorgetretenen Genfer Germanisten aus den letzten 30 Jahren, von dreien seiner vormals Göttinger Schüler neu vorgelegt, soll dazu dienen, dieses Defizit zu verringern. Das Verhältnis zur Aufklärung wird neu vermessen, Gedichte so eigengeprägter Autoren wie Hoburg, Haug, Rock, Zinzendorf und Tersteegen lassen erkennen, dass stärkste literarische Anregungen vom radikalen Flügel des Pietismus und seinen hermetischen Traditionen ausgehen. Charakteristische Gattungen, Denkvorgaben und Sprachprägungen werden analysiert, christlich-jüdische und deutsch-amerikanische Interaktionen reflektiert, und der Blick wird gelenkt auf oft übersehene literaturgeschichtliche Zusammenhänge.
£65.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Latomus and Luther: The Debate: Is every Good Deed a Sin?
Who was Jacob Latomus? What did he write in the series of lectures to which Luther penned an answer in 1521, an answer which is now so central to many interpretations of the great reformer? And how is the reading of that answer affected when it is preceded by an interpretation of what Latomus wrote? The study goes through the most important parts of Latomus' treatise against Luther (1521). The aim is to identify Latomus' theological convictions and thus to pin down who and what Luther was up against. The second and major part of the book is a reading of Luther's pamphlet against Latomus (1521). Parallels are drawn with Latomus' theology in order to facilitate as much as possible an appreciation of the differences between the two.The comparison between the two theologians shows that they speak completely different languages and that their viewpoints do not square at all. Basically their ways depart in their understanding of God's word and how it is communicated to man. This generates two ways of perceiving the matter of theology, and of speaking theologically -- and prevents mutual understanding. Latomus cannot understand Luther's view of the autonomy of God's word and the special character of proclamation, and hence a theology which is incompatible with natural reason. Even though he accepts a division between a natural and a supernatural rationality, and thus admits that natural reason has a limit, he grants the very same natural reason an important role in the ascent of cognition towards revelation. Everything else - such as Luther's theology - is a dehumanisation of the human being. Luther, on the other hand, regards Latomus' theology as a result of the impulse in sinful man towards ruling and controlling the word of God with his own inadequate natural abilities. In Luther's eyes that proclamation of Christ, which in the shape of a human being comes to man in contradiction of everything human, here disappears in the twinkling of an eye.
£94.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Between Text and Text: The Hermeneutics of Intertextuality in Ancient Cultures and Their Afterlife in Medieval and Modern Times
This volume presents the proceedings of an international and interdisciplinary symposium on the intertextuality of ancient literature and its medieval and modern receptions. It engages with the topic of intertextuality in four regards:1. What constitutes a Text and what constitutes an Intertext: text texture - textuality in archaeology, iconography and literature? 2. Forms of Intertextuality: including the aspect of oral and written text. 3. Tradition and Transmission of Texts and Intertexts: examples of intertextuality. 4. Intertextuality and Canon: aspects of the specificity of intertextuality in canonical contexts.
£111.59
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG BÃ"rgertum. Neue Folge.: Bilanzen, Perspektiven, Begriffe
Wir leben in einer Welt, die zutiefst geprägt ist durch die rechtlichen, ideellen, ökonomischen und kulturellen Traditionen und Parameter der "bërgerlichen Gesellschaft". Diese trat seit dem 18. Jahrhundert sukzessive an die Stelle der feudal-ständischen Ordnung der Vormoderne, und hat auch die ideologischen Herausforderungen von rechts und links ëberdauert. Aber das öffentliche Bewusstsein ëber dieses grundlegende Fundament unserer politisch-sozialen Ordnung entspricht keineswegs seiner ungebrochenen Bedeutung. Der Band enthält den ersten vergleichenden Rëckblick auf die drei großen Bërgertumsprojekte der 1980er Jahre, welche die historische Forschung seither nachhaltig beeinflusst haben. Diese waren auf das 19. Jahrhundert konzentriert, sie prägen die Bërgertumsforschung bis heute. Erweitert hat sich die historische Forschung seither in Richtung kultureller Faktoren, dem entsprechen Beiträge zur Vergesellschftung und Lebensfëhrung. Zweitens präsentiert der Band Studien zu den Brëchen, Transformationen und Kontinuitäten bërgerlicher Lebensweisen im 20. Jahrhundert, angesichts der Herausforderungen durch den Sozialstaat, die politischen Gegenutopien, die Pluralisierungszumutungen der Moderne. Den Band schließen vier Beiträge zur Begrifflichkeit und Lebenswelt von Mittelklassen außerhalb Europas - in der Erwartung, dass Wissen ëber europäische Traditionen "bërgerlicher Gesellschaft" der Diskussion ëber "global middle classes" befruchten wird.
£66.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Konfessionell-kooperatives Lernen im RU: Materialien für die Klassen 510
Im Fach Religion lernen Schülerinnen und Schüler, die evangelisch oder katholisch sind, einer anderen Religion oder auch gar keiner angehören, gemeinsam. Konfessionell-kooperativer Religionsunterricht versucht, dieser Vielfalt gerecht zu werden. Dabei stellt sich Religionslehrkräften die häufig schwierige Frage: Konfessionelle Kooperation wie macht man das eigentlich? Dieser Band bietet zwölf in Tandems aus evangelischen und katholischen Autorinnen und Autoren entstandene Unterrichtsskizzen. Sie sind zu zentralen lehrplanrelevanten Themen der Sekundarstufe I ausgearbeitet wie u. a. Visionen einer gerechten Welt, die Botschaft der Bergpredigt oder Gott und das Leid der Welt. Dabei stehen Schülerorientierung und die Wahrnehmung der Lerngruppe als interkonfessionelle Lerngemeinschaft im Fokus der Unterrichtsvorhaben. Mit den zahlreichen Kopiervorlagen in diesem Band sind Sie gewappnet für die Herausforderungen des konfessionell-kooperativen Religionsunterrichts.
£23.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World
Science deeply challenges classical descriptions of the human person as 'free' and as 'spirit'. This survey of contemporary neuroscience and evolutionary biology explores why these challenges have arisen. At the same time it finds in the religious dimension of human existence powerful resources for speaking of the 'Emergenz des Geistes' and of a deeper sense of human freedom.
£47.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG USA oder Sowjetunion?: Konkurrierende Modernitätsentwürfe in den Massenmedien der Weimarer Republik
Debates about social modernization processes determined the public discourse of the Weimar Republic. The images of the USA and the Soviet Union that were produced in German newspapers and magazines, which were perceived as modernity projects, played a special role. This is where David Franz's study comes in, comparing conflicting depictions of both countries in the leading German print media of the time and embedding them in the social conditions of the interwar period. In addition to journalistic texts, visual representations were also examined. The study thus takes into account both the role of the Soviet Union, which has so far received little attention, as well as the power of visual representation in the debates of the Weimar Republic. As a result, it traces the lines of the interpretive struggles over modernization processes in society, economy and politics that were characteristic of the public debate of the Weimar Republic.
£66.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Coastal Shipping and the European Economy, 17501980
Despite a thriving of maritime history in Europe, research in the coastal trade has been curiously neglected in most European countries. Yet coastal shipping greatly forwarded industrialisation and urbanisation during the nineteenth century and remained an important carrier of goods in the twentieth century. This volume brings together fifteen essays on aspects of coastal shipping in several countries and regions of Europe. As in its companion volume on Inland Navigation and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern 1995) the aim of the conference in which all but one of these essays originally were read as papers was to produce a preliminary balance of current research on the topic viewed from a comparative European perspective.
£47.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Gottinger Handel-beitrage: Jahrbuch/Yearbook 2016
The number of eponymous female characters in Handel's work is remarkable, from the first opera Almira (1705) to the last melodramma Deidamia (1740), supplemented by Esther, Deborah and Athalia. In the contributions of the GHB 2016, the female figure is traced in the music of Handel's time, guided by the central aesthetic terms 'sensitive', 'heroic' and 'sublime'. In addition, there are studies by Hans Joachim Marx and Ton Koopman, in addition to the usual bibliography and communications from the Göttinger Handel Society. V.
£42.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Paket: Nathan Söderblom: Biographie, Briefe, Ausgewählte Werke
Nathan Söderblom (18661931) war bedeutend als Religionswissenschaftler, Theologe, Erzbischof der schwedischen Kirche und Mitbegründer der Ökumene, so etwa auf der Konferenz von Stockholm 1925. Er hat zu Lebzeiten weit über Schweden hinaus großen Einfluss ausgeübt. In diesem Paket werden die Person und das Schaffen Nathan Söderbloms in einzigartiger Weise zugänglich gemacht. Es sind folgende Publikationen enthalten: 1) Nathan Söderblom und seine Zeit: Die erste Gesamtdarstellung eines der bedeutendsten religiösen Denker und Kirchenführer des vorigen Jahrhunderts. 2) Nathan Söderblom: Brev Lettres Briefe Letters. A selection from his correspondence: Bisher unveröffentlichte Briefwechsel des Erzbischofs und Nobelpreisträgers mit Kirchenführern, Politikern, Journalisten und Künstlern. Die Briefe spiegeln das Leben Söderbloms wider und umreißen die wichtigsten Aspekte seines Denkens. 3) Ausgewählte Werke: Band 1: Offenbarung und Religionen Band 2: Christliche Frömmigkeit und Konfessionen Band 3: Jesus in Geschichte und Gegenwart Band 4: Der 'Prophet' Martin Luther
£342.89
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG European and Global Christianity/Europaisches und Glabales Christentum: Challenges and Transformations in the 20th Century
The historical study of Protestantism is often limited to internal or national discussions. Yet a broader, international look means also studying the major upheavals that occurred throughout the world, such as wars and globalisation.This volume first reviews the history of the church in the 20th century from an international and interdisciplinary vantage point and takes a look at the most important themes and conflicts that marked that often tension-filled time, among others the two world wars, globalisation, the broad number of continuities and discontinuities, the influence of the 1960s on social life, and the debate on the role of gender in the history of Christianity.
£85.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG More than Luther: The Reformation and the Rise of Pluralism in Europe
This volume contains the plenary papers and a selection of shortpapers from the Seventh Annual RefoRC conference, which was held 1012 May 2017 in Wittenberg. The contributions concentrate on the effects of Luther's new theology and draw the lines from Luther's contemporaries into the early seventeenth century. Developments in art, catholic responses and Calvinistic reception are only some of the topics. The volume reflects the interdisciplinarity and interconfessionality that characterizes present research on the 16th century reformations and underlines the fact that this research has not come to a conclusion in 2017. The papers in this conference volume point to lacunae and will certainly stimulate further research. Contributors: Wim François, Antonio Gerace, Siegrid Westphal, Edit Szegedi, Maria Lucia Weigel, Graeme Chatfield, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, Marta Quatrale, Aurelio A. García, Jeannette Kreijkes, Csilla Gábor, Gábor Ittzés, Balázs Dávid Magyar, Tomoji Odori, Gregory Soderberg, Herman A. Speelman, Izabela Winiarska-Górska, Erik A. de Boer, Donald Sinnema, Dolf te Velde.
£94.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Laws of Heaven - Laws of Nature / Himmelsgesetze - Naturgesetze: Legal Interpretations of Cosmic Phenomena in the Ancient World / Rechtsförmige ... Et Orientalis
Text in English & German. Das wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Gedächtnis des Abendlandes erkennt die Urspr|nge der Idee von Naturgesetzen' bei den Vorsokratikern, Platon und der Stoa. Die rechtsförmige Interpretation kosmischer Phänomene reicht jedoch in den Alten Orient zur|ck und hat auch Eingang in die alttestamentliche Literatur gefunden. Der vorliegende Band erschlieát und analysiert die entsprechenden Texte und formuliert so einen neuen Zugang zur Vorstellung von Naturgesetzen' in der Antike.
£57.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Resource-Oriented Teamwork: A Systemic Approach to Collegial Consultation
Teamwork is expected to be a highly successful way to create synergies in organisations and companies. Yet all of us have had the experience of sitting through inefficient team meetings, spending too much time on organisational issues. Clearly collaborative consultation in its various forms is a common part of our daily work life. But does one organise working effectively in a team and as a team? On the basis of his long-standing experience as counsellor and supervisor Johannes Herwig-Lempp developed a systemic approach to team support. In this book he shows how to easily learn, adapt and practice this techniques.
£37.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG The Extreme Right in Europe: Current Trends and Perspectives
The present work deals not only with the well-organized right extremism in modern Europe as well as with its function in proper political parties, but equally includes two additional, broader approaches: the militant branches and subcultures that exist, including some paramilitary phenomena in Eastern Europe; and the broad realm of their political ideas and cultural trends and the influence they exert on European political culture.
£94.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Science and Empire in Eastern Europe: Imperial Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th Century
The essays in this volume present a nuanced analysis of the development of scientific fields and institutions in Eastern Europe during the "long 19th century" (1789-1914).In 19th century Western Europe science often developed in the context of emerging national states. In Eastern and East-Central Europe, however, until World War I science operated in the imperial framework of the Habsburg and Tsarist Empires. The imperial characteristics of these states (such as multinationality, linguistic diversity, and a pronounced polarity between centers and peripheries) created specific conditions for the sciences. Taking this observation as a starting point, this volume addresses the interplay of science and empire in Imperial Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in a comparative framework.
£47.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Crafts and Images in Contact: Studies in Eastern Mediterranean art of the first millennium BCE
Art objects and pictures of the first millennium BC Chr. From the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean are viewed here from a perspective that sees art as a symbolic data carrier. Art conveys culturally shaped statements and thereby allows conclusions to be drawn about the culture, world view and religion of a people. In this book, it is examined in its triple function as an artifact, visual medium and reflection of cultural ideas.
£111.59
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Erziehung und »Unerziehung« in der Sowjetunion: Das Pionierlager Artek und die Archangelsker Arbeitskolonie im Vergleich
£61.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Perceiving Truth and Value: Interdisciplinary Discussions on Perception as the Foundation of Ethics
The theme of this volume is the question of value-perception. It is discussed from different philosophical, psychiatric, theological, and anthropological perspectives. The thesis that unites all the papers is the recognition that we live in a relational, dynamic world, in which we primarily perceive, and that to dissolve values from facts is fundamentally misleading, both in theory as in life. The contributions are the outcome of an energetic conference in 2016 where the problems at stake were rigorously discussed. The results are presented here, and they have an explicit order and are strictly related. It opens with basic questions and observations, then critical opinions and objections come into play, after which the outline of a larger theory of value perception is presented, and at the end some concrete examples from material practices are drawn.
£57.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Salvation by Faith: Faith, Covenant and the Order of Salvation in Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680)
The doctrines of covenant, faith, and the order of salvation are crucial components of early modern Reformed soteriology. In seventeenth-century England, these three major doctrines of Reformed theology, which had been taken over undeveloped from the Reformers, took a mature shape, but aroused controversies among diverse Protestant groups. Modern historical scholarship on Reformed orthodoxy has produced little significant research that deals with these doctrines synthetically. This examination explores the broader role of faith in relation to these two significant doctrines for salvation in the early modern Reformed theology, with specific reference to the thought of Thomas Goodwin. To this end, Hyo-Nam Kim examines Goodwins life to review his religious experience and to understand his socio-theological context. Goodwins soteriology was sharpened by his battles on two fronts: The first is the threat of Arminian, Neonomian, and Socinian soteriologies that tended to place meritorious value on faith and on human acts. The second is the Antinomian errors that undervalued faith and human responsibility. Goodwin regarded faith as a key concept for his soteriology. Faith plays a central role in the covenant theology not only because a lack of faith was the immediate cause of breaking the covenant of works, but because saving faith was ordained in the covenant of redemption, and actually functions in the covenant of grace, as the instrument and a condition for the recovery of the relationship of mankind with God. Examination of Goodwins ordo salutis provides specific insight into the place and function of faith in the covenant of grace since each element of an ordo salutis refers to the blessings prepared for the elect to be finally saved. Together with the role of faith in Goodwins covenant theology, therefore, the reconstruction of Goodwins ordo salutis and the close examination of the role of faith in each blessing confirm that although faith may be said to be both an instrument and a condition for salvation, faith is the perfect instrument both for making salvation totally Gods gracious work, and for showing that the elect are not passive objects in the covenant.
£94.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG The Spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism: Papers of the International Conference on the Heidelberg Catechism Held in Apeldoorn 2013
At the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism, an international conference on the spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism was held at the Theological University Apeldoorn, 21-22 June 2013. This publication offers the plenary papers presented, and a selection of the short papers. While the papers center on the Catechism's spirituality, a wide range of topics is covered, from both historical and theological perspectives. These topics include: the roles of Ursinus and Olevianus, controverse theologians, anabaptist spirituality, comparisons with Calvin's Genevan Catechism and the later Synopsis of Purer Theology. Also, the distinct spirituality of faith, regeneration, the trinity, the law and prayer in the Heidelberg Catechism are scrutinized, besides the idea of mystical union and the art of dying and living. Three contributions reflect on the controversy on the Eucharist which has stamped the Heidelberg Catechism. From a practical-theological perspective, the preaching and teaching of the Catechism are discussed, as well as the mode of gospel presentation and the permanent character of catechetical instruction. So, this volume offers a broad range of scholarly perspectives on the Catechism. Its spirituality is famous for the first question and answer, on the only comfort in life and death: That I am not my own, but belong body and soul, in life and in death to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.""
£120.59
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG John Edwards (16371716) on Human Free Choice and Divine Necessity: The Debate on the Relation between Divine Necessity and Human Freedom in Late Seventeenth-Century and Early Eighteenth-Century England
Filling the historiographical gap, Yoo raises a fundamental question concerning the criticism of the Reformed doctrine of free choice in relationship to divine necessity as determinism. Unlike the deterministic interpretation of traditional Reformed thought on free choice, the substantive and careful study of John Edwards writings on free choice in the intellectual context of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century shows that in Edwards view, human beings retain the natural freedom from compulsion and freedom of contrary choice even after the Fall, and divine necessity such as decree, predestination, and foreknowledge does not exclude human free choice at all.
£103.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG The Meaning of the Letter of Aristeas: In light of biblical interpretation and grammatical tradition, and with reference to its historical context
Ekaterin Matusova offers a new approach to the old problems of interpretation of the “Letter of Aristeas”. Chapter 1 deals with the question of the structure of the narrative. Matusova argues that at the time of Aristeas compositions of the kind of the Reworked Pentateuch, or Rewritten Bible were circulating in Egypt in parallel with the LXX and were a source of interpretations of the Hebrew text different from the LXX and of specific combinations of subjects popular in Second Temple Judaism. In particular, Matusova further argues that the leading principle of the composition of the Letter is that of the Reworked Deuteronomy, where subjects referring to the idea of following the Law among the gentiles were grouped together. The analysis is based on a broad circle of Jewish sources, including Philo of Alexandria and documents from the Qumran library. The principle of the composition discovered in this part of the study is referred to as the Jewish paradigm. Chapter 2 offers a new interpretation of the frame story in the narrative, i.e. of the story of the translation in the strict sense. Matusova shows that two paradigms are skilfully combined in this split story: the Jewish one, based on the Bible, and the Greek one, which involves Greek grammatical theory. She further argues that the story, when read in terms of Greek grammar, turns out to be a consistent story not of the translation, but of the correction of the LXX, which is important for our understanding of the early history of the translation. The analysis involves extensive excurses into Greek grammatical theory, including a discussion of Aristotle, Dionysius Thrax and other Hellenistic grammarians. In Chapter 3 Matusova tries to find the reason for the combination of these two paradigms, namely the Jewish biblical paradigm and the Greek grammatical ones, and to interpret their interconnected meaning, by placing it in the broad historical context of the Ptolemaic state.
£85.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Pneuma and Realized Eschatology in the Book of Wisdom
The Book of Wisdom's understanding of Israel's history, of contemporary politics and of the immortal fate of the persecuted sage can be understood to be part of one theological system. This system integrates texts and concepts from Jewish Wisdom, the biblical narratives of the patriarchs from Adam to Moses, eschatological hope and apocalyptic language, an understanding of the spirit of God in the enabling of prophets and leaders and, most distinctively, the Stoic concept of pneuma. This last concept unites the biblical resources and allows Wisdom, using eschatological language, to speak of the ordering of the cosmos for the judgement for the wicked and the exaltation of God's people in the present age.Matthew Edwards addresses first the question of the literary unity of Wisdom. This is followed by an examination of the differing uses of the term pneuma within Wisdom, that is as divine agent of salvation, the means of the ordering the cosmos and the substance from which souls are composed. The nature of personal salvation within Wisdom is also considered and shown to be an integral part of the understanding of the cosmos, ordered for judgement and exaltation. Finally, this notion of the ordering of the comos and history for God's people is discussed with its consequences for Jewish life under contemporary Hellenistic and Roman rule.
£128.69
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG As A Deer Longs For Flowing Streams: A Study of the Septuagint Version of Psalm 42-43 in its Relation to the Hebrew Text
This volume of the new DSI series is the most comprehensive investigation of Hebrew and Greek translation equivalents in Ps 42-43 in the Psalter and in the Septuagint as a whole currently available. This detailed study does not only include the translation equivalents in the Septuagint, the semantic meanings of the Hebrew and Greek words are also discussed and parallels in the LXX as well as in the Hebrew Bible are included. A systematic investigation of the translator's method must be carried out before one can use the manuscripts in a proper way. Accordingly, the extensive translation-technical emphasis and the discussion of text-critical matters make it possible to present a more accurate Old Greek text and this book may thus contribute to a new critical edition of the Greek Psalter. The book is also in some respects in itself a text-critical study, since all variants in Rahlfs' edition of the Septuagint Psalms, with the addition of Papyrus Bodmer XXIV (Rahlfs 2110), as well as Hebrew variants, are referred to and studied. This includes suggestions and evaluations of the Hebrew Vorlage behind the Septuagint text. It is also a commentary on the Hebrew and the Greek texts of Ps 42-43. Like other commentaries, it describes the position of the psalm, it presents the unity and form of the psalm, its structure and its relation to the close context. As a commentary on both the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint, it gives an overall interpretation of the psalm in Hebrew and in Greek separately. The book can be read by the specialist in Septuagint studies as well as all scholars interested in translation, textual criticism, and in the book of Psalms, not least its use of metaphors and the reflection of temple theology.
£90.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Russlands Traum von Amerika: Die Alaska-Kolonisten, Russland und die USA, 1733-1867
Von imperialen Utopien zu gelebten Wirklichkeiten: Imperiale Expansionsprozesse werden meist eurozentrisch und linear dargestellt. Europäische Großreiche, so die gängige Lesart, eigneten sich unter Rückgriff auf ambivalente Kulturmodelle und technologischen Fortschritt weite Teile der außereuropäischen Welt an. Die Studie der Kolonialgeschichte Alaskas im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert nimmt dagegen einen Perspektivwechsel vor. Die Positionen der Machtzentren Sankt Petersburg und Washington, D.C. werden ergänzt um die Erlebnis- und Vorstellungswelten der unmittelbaren Träger kolonialer Expansion: der russischen Kolonisten in Alaska. Das Bild des kolonialen Alaskas wird so neu interpretiert. An die Stelle von vermeintlicher zivilisatorischer Überlegenheit und imperialer Rhetorik treten Unsicherheit, Unterversorgung, Konkurrenz, Angst und Gefahr.
£57.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Beruf und Berufung: Die evangelische Geistlichkeit und die Konfessionsbildung in den Herzogtümern Pommern, 15601618
Maciej Ptaszyński befasst sich mit der zweiten Generation lutherischer Pfarrer im Herzogtum Pommern des 16. Jahrhunderts. Dieser Zeitraum ist in der Kirchengeschichte Pommerns als Konsolidierungsphase zu bezeichnen: In der pommerschen Kirche, die sich bereits 1534 für die Reformation ausgesprochen hatte, beschleunigten sich die Prozesse der Konfessionsbildung während dieser Zeit. In den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren des 16. Jahrhunderts wurden ein Corpus Doctrinae (1565) gedruckt, eine neue Kirchenordnung und kirchliche Agende verabschiedet (1563/1569), das Synodalsystem geschaffen und Konsistorien in Greifswald und Stettin gegründet.Er beschäftigt sich mit den pommerschen Pastoren, einer Gruppe von über 2000 Männer, die seit den 1550ern Jahren ihre Posten übernahmen und bis zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg innehatten. In der Darstellung verfolgt er zwei Ziele: Zum einen erfasst er diese Gruppe deskriptiv, zum anderen geht er dem Zusammenhang der Paradigmen der Konfessionalisierung und Professionalisierung analytisch nach. Die Generations- und Lebenszyklenanalyse erweiterte dabei die bisherigen Forschungen zur evangelischen Geistlichkeit im 16. Jahrhundert.Seine Studie ist als prosopographische Untersuchung (Kollektivbiographie) konzipiert. Neben der sozialgeschichtlichen Herangehensweise spielen alltagsgeschichtliche und anthropologische Ansätze eine wichtige Rolle. Als Quellen für seine Arbeit dienten neben gedruckten Materialien zur pommerschen Geschichte vor allem Archivbestände in Greifswald (Landes-, Stadt- und Universitätsarchiv), Stralsund (Stadtarchiv) und Stettin (Archiwum Państwowe).
£94.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Ringen Um Versohnung: Versohnungsprozesse Zwischen Religion, Politik Und Gesellschaft
Seit der zweiten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts wird im politisch-gesellschaftlichen Kontext der eigentlich religios konnotierte Begriff "Versohnung" immer haufiger zur Beschreibung von Konfliktlosungsstrategien benutzt. Doch was bedeutet Versohnung bezogen auf Politik und Gesellschaft? Welche Faktoren sind relevant fur Versohnungsprozesse? Womit lassen sich Erfolge, aber auch Hindernisse und Ruckschlage auf dem Weg der Versohnung erklaren? In dem vorliegenden Band gehen internationale Forscherinnen und Forscher aus Geschichtswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Theologie diesen Fragen nach. In ihren Beitragen wird Versohnung auf zwei Ebenen reflektiert. Auf der ersten Ebene handelt es sich um ubergreifende Analysen von Faktoren, die Versohnungsprozesse beeinflussen. Auf der zweiten Ebene werden bestimmte Aspekte von Versohnungsprozessen an einschlagigen Fallbeispielen aus dem Kontext des deutsch-franzosischen und russisch-finnischen Verhaltnisses, des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens, Sud- und Nordkorea, der DDR und Sudafrika veranschaulicht.Alle Beitrage machen deutlich, dass, obwohl unterschiedlichen Versohnungsprozessen bestimmte Elemente gemeinsam sind, Versohnung als ein sich dynamisch wandelnder, immer kontextgebundener Aushandlungsprozess erscheint, der multilateral von Akteuren aus Kirchen, Politik und Gesellschaft getragen wird.
£71.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control: The Evolving Concept of Trauma/The Concept and Facts of Dissociation in Trauma
The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control is structured as a trilogy. This book includes the first two parts: Volume I, The Evolving Concept of Trauma, and Volume II, The Concept and Facts of Dissociation in Trauma, which are predominantly conceptual, theoretical, and empirical in nature.Volume I aims to overcome conceptual flaws that have plagued the trauma field to date. It proposes new definitions of trauma and derivative concepts as well as a dimension of trauma-related disorders. It suggests that individuals and their environment constitute, depend on, and are relative to each other. Volume I unites two groups of trauma-related disorders that were previously contrasted in psychiatric history under various names such as melancholia versus hysteria, traumatic neurosis versus traumatic hysteria, and posttraumatic stress disorder versus dissociative disorders. It also mends the dissociation of dissociative and conversion disorders.Volume II analyzes and defines the concepts of personality, self, dissociation in trauma, and dissociative parts. It explores and documents the biopsychosocial features of different prototypical dissociative parts in traumatized individuals. Important features of these parts also characterize other players in traumatization, stretching from perpetrators to society at large.
£85.49
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Fragmentary Jewish Historians and Biblical History
Erich Gruen's small study, the revised and extended Felix Jacoby Kiel lecture on the Jewish historians of the Hellenistic period, shows that their writings, which have survived only fragmentarily, displayed a remarkable breadth and diversity. Their handling of the biblical texts was at the same time very playful, consciously connected with a certain amount of idiosyncrasy and with the intention of placing Jewish traditions in a broader cultural context. The historians saw their task primarily not to elucidate it. To the biblical narratives they offered instead compelling twists, alternative versions and provocative variants. Almost always their representations also had a certain entertainment value. The sacredness of Scripture remained untouched.
£33.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG The Boundaries of Knowledge in Buddhism, Christianity, and Science
What do we know about reality? What can we know at all? This is the question that the essays on religion (especially Buddhism and Christianity) and natural science in this volume address. Instead of getting lost in theoretical constructs and dogmatic discussions, the contributors focus on the philosophical issues that span the world. How do Buddhism, Christianity and science deal with the boundaries between what man can know and what he cannot know? How is that defined that cannot be known? How does ignorance relate to the human striving to fully grasp its surrounding reality? Scientists and religious figures discuss these questions and try to integrate the other side of the understanding of reality into their approach. This creates a fertile ground for the dialogue between science and religion, which makes it possible to think together about the limits of understanding.
£80.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG The Proto-Lucianic Problem in 1 Samuel
The Lucianic text of the Historical Books is demonstrably a late, recensional text, but it has numerous curious agreements with the earliest witnesses against B and the majority of the manuscripts. Tuukka Kauhanen aims at throwing light on this "proto-Lucianic problem" in 1 Samuel (1 Kingdoms) by taking a comprehensive view of all the relevant witnesses. Kauhanen concludes that there are significantly less of actual proto-Lucianic readings than has often been supposed and refutes the old theory of the "proto-Lucianic recension".
£90.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Military Occupation under the Eyes of the Lord: Studies in Erfurt during the Thirty Years War
Did war serve as a catalyst for religious change? Holger Berg explores this question using the example of Erfurt during the Thirty Years' War. Dissenting theses The strengthening or abolition of existing doctrines as a result of the war is empirically examined for the first time on the basis of the rich source material. While sermons and edifices document the teachings of four pastors, historiographical manuscripts provide information On the Convictions of the Laity The broad perspective on pastors and church members provides nuanced results for both church history and historical-anthropological research who understand the relationship between suffering, lived faith, and war experiences interested, gaining unusual insights here.
£85.49
£61.99