Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - History

Are we living in what the Bible calls the Last Days? It feels like it, but how can you know for certain? What if everything you have been taught about the End Times is wrong? What if the doctrines of well-meaning theologians who lived in a day before planes, trains, and automobiles, before phones, TVs, and satellite communications, are as helpful as the understanding of an elephant provided by the four proverbial blind men? Based on their limited knowledge, gleaned from what their hands have touched, they proclaim an elephant is like a rope, a snake, a tree, a fan. With the clarity of...

"A completely unrivalled collection of important source texts for the degree examination."
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christoph Markschies

Schleiermacher preached on a regular basis over a period of forty years. This third section of the Critical Complete Edition documents his sermons in fourteen volumes. The present volume contains 84 sermons from 1830 and 1831, including 31 sermons published here for the first time and 9 presented in previously unpublished text versions.

Annette Aubert shows that in the development of their works, Gerhart and Hodge took into account both the tradition of the church and the contemporary theological developments in Europe, especially Germany. Aubert masterfully...

At long last, this book provides a comprehensive study of the life and work of the 7th century monk and theologian Anastasius Sinaita (Anastasios of Sinai). It analyzes his principal work, the Hodegos (or Viae Dux) and his other Christological writings, and also presents his sermons and his role as an apologist toward the Jews and Moslems and an exegetist of Genesis 1-3.

Die Vorstellung vom Reich Gottes ist in der Theologie des 19. Jahrhunderts eine allseits prasente, in der Forschungsliteratur gleichwohl nur marginal beachtete. Die vorliegende Untersuchung widmet sich diesem Leitmotiv der Theologie des 19. Jahrhunderts wie auch seinen gesellschaftlichen und sozialpolitischen Verflechtungen.
Zu diesem Zweck wird das Oeuvre dreier Theologen exemplarisch herangezogen, namlich dasjenige Isaak August Dorners (1809-1884), Johann Tobias Becks (1804-1878) sowie Franz Theremins (1780-1846), der - heute nahezu in Vergessenheit geraten - in seiner Zeit als...