Religious Studies

Robert Martin Jockel undertakes a systematic (re)construction of Eberhard Jüngel's Christology on the basis of the guiding idea of the humanity of God as a story to be told, thus making it plausible as a narrative-hermeneutical Christology.

In the first volume of his two-volume theological anthropology, Hans-Christoph Askani takes the monastic way of existence as a guide for discovering what is at stake in being human. Like in a magnifying mirror, the fundamental unfinishedness of all human existence is meant to come into view here.

This volume tests the »within Judaism« paradigm as a heuristic rather than a presupposition. Contributors explore how New Testament texts formed within the pluralism of Second Temple Judaism and assess their value as expressions of groups embedded in Jewish history, with attention to boundaries, external perceptions, and literary genres.

Corine Pelluchon analyzes the obstacles to a new ecological enlightenment, the basic principles of which she has developed in her works. By linking subjectivity and social structures, she exposes the structure of domination and counters it with the ethics and politics of consideratio.