Religious Studies

Serhii Smahlo investigates Jesus' table fellowship with outcasts in light of Jewish eschatological expectations. He explores how Jesus' inclusion of »unexpected participants« embodied the concept of reversal - »the last will be first and the first will be last« - and how this enactment sparked conflict and ultimately led to Jesus' rejection.

The problem of natural theology has become more acute in late modernity. With impulses from the philosophy of religion, problem-historical analyses and contemporary systematic-theological reflections, the contributors to this volume undertake a reassessment of the problem field of natural theology.

Aļesja Lavrinoviča reassesses 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 through textual criticism and linguistic analysis. By combining manuscript study with pragmatics, she demonstrates that the passage constitutes a later editorial interpolation rather than Pauline authorship.

This new edition incorporates the latest developments in media law. Numerous legislative amendments and new legal regulations have been taken into account, such as the new Digital Services Act, the new Film Subsidies Act, the European Media Freedom Act, the Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising and the EU's AI Act.