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Der Umgang mit dem, was wir als «fremd» empfinden, und der Umgang mit «den Fremden» gehören zu den Grundfragen des Einzelnen und der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Deshalb befasste sich die 13. Ökumenische Sommerakademie Kremsmünster 2011 unter dem Titel Auch Gott ist ein...
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The study examines the understanding of the glory of God in the thought of John Calvin.The examination is carried out from the historical observation in the first part and the systematic evaluation in the second part.The author describes the development of the concept...
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Martin Noths These vom «Deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerk» (DtrG) gehörte zu den erfolgreichsten Theorien der historisch-kritischen Bibelwissenschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gleichwohl werden seine Annahmen neuerdings zunehmend bezweifelt. Die «Arbeitsgemeinschaft der...
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This book brings together insights from two fields of study: biblical scholarship and missiology. The Great Commission in Matthew’s Gospel is often seen as the biblical foundation for mission. The New Testament, however, reflects a variety of models for mission. Each...
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Dieses Buch wurde mit dem IVA-Ethikpreis 2011 ausgezeichnet. Investieren wir unser Geld sozial verantwortungsvoll? Oder gewinnt am Ende doch die Gier nach mehr Rendite? Sind Schockwellen auf den Finanzmärkten imstande, einen realistischeren und verantwortungsvolleren...
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Improving Preaching by Listening to Listeners: Sunday Service Preaching in the Malagasy Lutheran Church explores the reaction of the congregation to Sunday preaching. Preaching has been a significant activity since the founding of the Lutheran Church in Madagascar in...
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Edith Stein ist durch ihr außergewöhnliches Leben und Sterben (1891 Breslau bis 1942 Auschwitz) bekannt. Ihrem frühen philosophischen Werk als Meisterschülerin von Edmund Husserl wurde bisher allerdings zu wenig Beachtung geschenkt. Die Referate der Tagung Die...
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Diese Textsammlung weist auf die philosophisch-theologische Aufarbeitung neuerer Zeitvorstellungen in der Philosophie durch G. Picht und in der Physik durch C. F. von Weizsäcker hin, und auf Möglichkeiten des Handelns in der offenen Zukunft. Es wird einsichtig, daß...
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Experience is a very basic concept and, at the same time, an extremely complex subject. How does our everyday experience as a human being relate with scientific knowledge and moral conduct? What kind of mutual relationship lies between human experience, reason and...
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It is common knowledge that the majority of the population of Eastern Europe belong to the Christian Orthodox tradition. But how many people have an adequate knowledge of the past or even of the present of these Orthodox churches? This book aims to present an...
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Karl Barth of fered Church Dogmatics III.3 as a ‘radical correction’ of Reformed Orthodoxy’s doctrine of providence. This book assesses this claim and argues that III.3 represents a ‘personalist’ revision of providence which can only be understood through Barth’s ad hoc...
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Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, there was prolific misuse and abuse of the concept of divine wrath in church pulpits. In pursuit of a faithful understanding of what he calls a «lost doctrine,» the author of this study investigates the...
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The Old Testament as Authoritative Scripture in the Early Churches of the East represents the latest scholarly research in the field of Old Testament as Scripture in Eastern Christianity. Its twelve articles focus on the use of the Old Testament in the earliest...
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Texte, die zu den geistigen Grundlagen einer Gesellschaft gehören, mögen heute nicht mehr oft gelesen werden, aber sie werden kommentiert. Längst scheint es, als sei der Kommentar an die Stelle des Textes getreten. Kommentierung gehört zur Grundlage...
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Mount Athos is the spiritual heart of the Orthodox world. From its beginnings in the ninth century it attracted monks from all corners of the Byzantine empire and beyond to experience its seclusion, its sanctity, and its great natural beauty. The first monastery,...
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Transformation is a desired outcome of Christian spirituality. Christians pray, trust, and hope that their responsive embrace of God will transform them. Interdisciplinary study of this process, as journey and as significant movements, hits upon key philosophical,...
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In recent years, a number of scholars have identified a text-type in six of the books of the Catholic Epistles that they have called «mixed.» The So-Called Mixed Text: An Examination of the Non-Alexandrian and Non-Byzantine Text-Type in the Catholic Epistles is...
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A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles explores Acts, with its twofold motif of self-exaltation and self-attribution of divine prerogatives, from the viewpoint of postcolonial criticism. The Lukan community struggles to legitimize itself, in hybrid fashion,...
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The work of practical theologian James E. Loder, Jr. (1931-2001) deserves a wider audience. For more than forty years, he developed and exercised an interdisciplinary methodology that identified patterns of correlation in the fields of psychology, educational theory,...
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The Matthean Beatitudes in Their Jewish Origins: A Literary and Speech Act Analysis examines how Matthew used Jewish concepts as paradigmatic utterances for the Matthean community. In fact, the Gospel of Matthew was the most Jewish of the Synoptic Gospels, and Matthew’s...
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