History

What rhetorical strategies with the goal of edification do theologians pursue in sermons? How are their theological concepts expressed in this aesthetic form, which is oriented towards the reality of people's lives? This volume is intended as a foundation for understanding the most important Protestant theologians since the Enlightenment.

Law's complex relationship with racism has increasingly become a matter of academic interest. Sociolegal thought tackling this relationship, however, remains scarce. A promising avenue for answers lies in insights generated by critical race theory as reconstructed in this award-winning work.

Writing a history of theology is a key task of systematic theology. But how and for what purpose can this be done today, given current academic and theological conditions? This volume gathers methodological contributions from Protestant and Catholic theology.

Anselm's Cur Deus homo is one of the most influential theological writings of the Middle Ages, yet modern scholarship has often viewed it with suspicion. Jonathan Flämig demonstrates that many objections lose their validity once the treatise is read through the lens of Anselm's concept of order, thereby rehabilitating his doctrine of atonement.