Theology

Anselm's Cur Deus homo is one of the most influential theological writings of the Middle Ages, yet modern scholarship has often viewed it with suspicion. Jonathan Flämig demonstrates that many objections lose their validity once the treatise is read through the lens of Anselm's concept of order, thereby rehabilitating his doctrine of atonement.

Christian Kamleiter shows how Rudolf Otto's theory of religion is based on extensive reflections on the possibilities and limits of religious communication. He places a special focus on Otto's unpublished lecture on dogmatics and reconstructs how Otto's theory of religious communication is an actualization of concepts prefigured by Friedrich Schleiermacher.

What rhetorical strategies with the goal of edification do theologians pursue in sermons? How are their theological concepts expressed in this aesthetic form, which is oriented towards the reality of people's lives? This volume is intended as a foundation for understanding the most important Protestant theologians since the Enlightenment.