Theology

Featuring articles on influential figures such as esteemed teachers, rabbis, Church Fathers, exegetes, mystics, jurists, and polymaths, the present volume offers a comprehensive picture of how education was understood and practiced in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures across various historical periods.

Integrating the Anabaptist movement coherently into their own historiographical concept of the Reformation challenged both Lutheran and Reformed scholars. Steffie Schmidt examines the extent to which these narrative patterns were questioned and possibly updated under the conditions of pietism and Enlightenment.

How can finite human beings speak of God? Joel Klenk explores negative theology through forms of open semantics, examining Pauline texts that articulate negative theological discourse in light of God's salvific identity as a theological criterion.

Eric J. P. Wagner identifies and analyzes personified mountains in the Epic of Gilgameš, the Iliad and Odyssey, and Genesis-2 Kings. These »embodied landscapes« represent mythic thinking, inviting a re-reading that traces their meaning(s) and function(s) across each corpus.