Religious Studies

This is the first Reader ever dedicated to ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's writings, a major intellectual figure of the late seventeenth- to early eighteenth-century Islamicate world. It reflects the multi-disciplinary character of his rich scholarship and offers a glimpse into his theological, legal, and mystical thought.

Zwanzig Einzelstudien erhellen die Entstehung wie Redaktions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte des Philipperbriefs und verorten diesen in den politischen, weisheitlichen und apokalyptischen Diskursen seiner Zeit. Hinzu treten antijudaismuskritische und feministische Lektüren weiterer zentraler Paulustexte.

The society of the Reformation and its traditional model of the three estates (education, defence, and those engaged in agriculture or trades; nobility, clergy, and peasantry) was set in motion from 1520/21 as lay people of both sexes, peasants, knights, clergy, townspeople, and the nobility saw themselves called upon to 'change' the existing order. The dynamics of the early Reformation ended in the Peasants' War.

Chi-Kin Lei reexamines 1 Peter 3:19 and its early Christian reception, challenging the current scholarly consensus by exploring its association with the doctrine of Christ's descent into Hades ( descensus ) and its significance in Christian theology.