Religious Studies

The cross is the tremendum of theology and its fascinosum . The cross as a rupture of interpretations marks the Other of the media of religion. The cross breaks open the possibilities for the media of religion: in word, writing and image of the cross. Theology of the cross thus becomes the phobic prolegomena of medial theology.

Given the criticism of compassion expressed as far back as antiquity, its positive assessment and relevance to theology, Christology, and ethics in the Gospel of Luke is surprising. Elisa M. Klein situates this in the context of philosophical and early Jewish conceptions of emotion and highlights the significance of disgust in the Gospel.

Modern theology has long treated miracles as an embarrassment - relics of a pre-scientific age. This volume reverses the lens: it reads miracle narratives as semiotic processes that do not break reality but interpret it.

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.