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.

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.

Stefano De Feo explores how ancient Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman traditions used the lexeme ἔσχατος. By tracing this key Greek word across diverse sources, the author offers a fresh look at how ideas of 'the end' are shaped - or not - by the vocabulary that eventually became eponymous for eschatology.

Social interaction is shaped by both positive and negative emotions. The norm of μακροθυμία (long-suffering), which constitutes and defines interpersonal interaction, intervenes precisely in this complex of emotionality and relationships. Kerstin Reussner investigates what characterizes μακροθυμία, what it means in ancient texts, in which contexts it is relevant and how it is theologically substantiated.