Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - History

When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the Early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe and as one of the moving forces behind the Anthropological Turn. Research foci of the Centre have been and are Enlightenment anthropology, Enlightenment in the reference field of early modem esotericism, university history, philanthropism and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz; more recent emphasis has been on the Early...

In der Tradition reformatorischer Theologie ist "Freiheit" ein Leitmotiv fur die Entfaltung der Heilsbedeutung des christlichen Glaubens. Zugleich steht Freiheit auch im Zentrum des neuzeitlichen Selbstbewusstseins.
Christoph Herbst untersucht drei protestantische Klassiker des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts auf ihr Verstandnis der "Freiheit aus Glauben." In eingehenden Analysen der systematisch-theologischen Entwurfe von Wilhelm Herrmann, Rudolf Bultmann und Eberhard Jungel werden erhebliche Differenzen, vor allem aber ein uberraschender Konsens sichtbar: Der Glaube befreit den...

In the second part of Wechselseitige Wahrnehmung, the Gottingen Academy presents additional conference papers on the ways that Islam and Christianity perceived one another and on the reception of pagan religions by Renaissance humanists.

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834) was, in Berlin, an eminent preacher, professor, and member of the academy. He displayed an influential theological and philosophical position between enlightenment, German idealism, and romanticism.

The historical-critical edition of Schleiermacher's complete works, his unpublished writings and correspondence, published since 1980, has been divided into the following five sections:
I.Writings and Drafts
II.Lectures
III.Sermons
IV.Translations
V.Correspondence and Biographical Documents

The first editorial...