Philosophy

The Holy Spirit is central in the Gospel of John. Michael R. Jost compares the Johannine conception of the Holy Spirit with the Daimonion of Socrates in (Middle) Platonic writings, offering a clarification of the Johannine discourse on spirits as well as impulses for the religious-historical classification of the fourth Gospel.

This volume presents Justin's Dialogue with the Jew Trypho, the first surviving literary conversation between a Christian and a Jew, with a new German translation of the Greek text, an introduction, explanatory notes, and thematic essays.

This handbook brings together both classic and cutting-edge methods for interpreting the New Testament. Chapters on historical-critical, literary, and reader-response approaches showcase the wide methodological range through which the text's original setting and its contemporary significance can be explored.

Tabea Laura Aimée Ott explores visibility as an ethical topos linked to recognition, agency, and vulnerability. She shows why 'being visible' is ethically significant and develops perspectives for a fair approach to digital data images between invisibility and exposure.