Religious Studies

All political action is influenced by political dreams and nightmares, by norms, beliefs and imaginations - in short, by something that transcends a given order. In continuation and critique of relevant debates, this volume's authors ask how references to transcendence contribute to the constitution, stabilization and transformation of political order.

Bohdan Kuryliak examines the book of Revelation through four approaches: preterism, idealism, historicism, and futurism. Drawing on careful exegesis and ancient Christian reception history, he argues that historicism's ability to combine past, present, and future offers an integrative framework for understanding the Apocalypse's prophetic imagery.

New Perspective, Paul within Judaism, apocalyptic Paul: Pauline scholarship has long been a contest of rival schools. This volume does not add another. Instead, leading scholars bring the competing approaches into conversation and ask where the study of Paul and his letters goes from here.

The fundamental intuition of hermeneutical theology is that faith is understood as understanding - but what happens when non-understanding sets in? In this study of Fuchs, Ebeling, and Jüngel, Simon Haug examines their understanding of understanding and identifies non-understanding as a central dimension of understanding and faith.