Religious Studies

Melissa J. Barciela examines the place of the suffering body in Paul's letter to the Philippians. She brings together three key angles of inquiry - Paul among ancient philosophers, embodiment in antiquity, and the theme of suffering - to offer a new reading of the embodied language in the letter.

Ruben van Wingerden explores how early Christians interpreted Jesus' call to »carry one's cross« and shows how early Christian readers, operating within diverse cultural and theological contexts, expanded and reshaped the meaning of cross-bearing from its New Testament origins into a rich and multifaceted tradition.

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.