Religious Studies

The sixth church membership survey in Germany offers current empirical insights into how respondents perceive »church« and how they assess its activities. Alongside an introduction to the study's methodology and interpretive framework, the book focuses primarily on the analysis and interpretation of key findings in the area of religious education.

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.

The contributors to this volume present an overview of current Johannine scholarship after the decline of the Semeia Source hypothesis. Focusing both on individual semeia narratives and broader topics such as scriptural interpretation, they offer insights into the theological and literary significance of the »Semeia« in the Fourth Gospel.