Theology

How was religious education taught in one of the central institutions of emerging Christianity? The contributors to this volume examine late antique sermons from the Latin West, explore how biblical content and saints were addressed in them, and how questions of Christian ethics and faith were communicated.

In the GDR, the Protestant churches developed their own legal training to maintain autonomy under socialism. In this study, the author analyses the unique education of church lawyers, highlighting its significance for church law and church-state relations in the 20th century.

In this study, Stephen Germany investigates the literary function of the Philistines and Arameans in the books of Samuel and Kings and reconstructs the compositional history and historical background of the narratives in which they appear.