Religious Studies

Segen

Hrsg. v. Martin Leuenberger

[Blessing.]

2015. IX, 239 pages.

utb / Themen der Theologie 4429

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The current volume pursues various ideas of blessings, looking at them from the perspectives of religious studies, biblical history, Jewish studies and church history, as well as systematic and practical theology. In so doing, it provides an interdisciplinary insight into the current state of research on the topic.
The subject of blessing has recently, and once again, been attracting lively interest. Regarded as an abbreviation for a successful life, it takes into account multifarious phenomena which present themselves as variations of fundamental themes of cultures, religions and theologies: one wishes and strives steadfastly for oneself and others to be blessed, but without ever having the matter entirely in one's own hands.
The current volume pursues various ideas of blessings, looking at them from the perspectives of religious studies, biblical history, Jewish studies and church history, as well as systematic and practical theology. In so doing, it provides an interdisciplinary insight into the current state of research on the topic. The collection is thus an invitation for theology, church and society to engage over this equally fundamental and widely discussed topic.
Survey of contents
Einleitung Martin Leuenberger: Segen als Grundthema von Religion
Altes Testament
Martin Leuenberger: Segen im Alten Testament
Judaistik
David Hamidović: Der Segen im antiken Judentum
Neues Testament
Karl-Heinrich Ostmeyer: Der Segen nach dem Neuen Testament – Kontinuitäten und Spezifika
Kirchengeschichte
Christopher Spehr: Segenspraxis und Segenstheologie in der Christentumsgeschichte
Systematische Theologie
Hartmut Rosenau: Segen – Systematisch-theologisch
Praktische Theologie
Ulrike Wagner-Rau: Unverbrüchlich angesehen – Der Segen in praktisch-theologischer Perspektive
Zusammenschau
Martin Leuenberger: »An Gottes Segen ist alles gelegen«?
Authors/Editors

Martin Leuenberger Geboren 1973; 2003 Promotion; 2007 Habilitation; seit 2012 Professor für Altes Testament an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Tübingen.
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5889-4427

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft — 60 (2018), S. 359–361 (A. Deeg)
In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 141 (2016), S. 809–810 (Florian Kluger)
In: Gottesdienst — 2016, Heft 5, S. 41 (Manuel Uder)
In: Jahrbuch f.Liturgik u.Hymnologie — 2016, S. 151 + 2017, S. 96 (Jörg Neijenhuis/Helmut Schwier)
In: www.theo-web.de — 14 (2015), S. 336–337 (Martin Schreiner)
In: Review of Biblical Literature — http://www.bookreviews.org (7/2017) (Bob Becking)
In: Christ in der Gegenwart — 67 (2015), S. 467 (Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger)
In: Bibel und Kirche – Biblische Bücherschau — 5 (2017), www.biblische-buecherschau.de (Christoph Schmitt)
In: Magazin 2000plus — 2018, Nr. 396, S. 76