Theology

Zwanzig Einzelstudien erhellen die Entstehung wie Redaktions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte des Philipperbriefs und verorten diesen in den politischen, weisheitlichen und apokalyptischen Diskursen seiner Zeit. Hinzu treten antijudaismuskritische und feministische Lektüren weiterer zentraler Paulustexte.

This is the first Reader ever dedicated to ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's writings, a major intellectual figure of the late seventeenth- to early eighteenth-century Islamicate world. It reflects the multi-disciplinary character of his rich scholarship and offers a glimpse into his theological, legal, and mystical thought.

The society of the Reformation and its traditional model of the three estates (education, defence, and those engaged in agriculture or trades; nobility, clergy, and peasantry) was set in motion from 1520/21 as lay people of both sexes, peasants, knights, clergy, townspeople, and the nobility saw themselves called upon to 'change' the existing order. The dynamics of the early Reformation ended in the Peasants' War.

Elyon / »Most High« is a biblical designation for God whose semantics are obvious. Given the attestation of a deity Elyon in neighbouring cultures and the peculiarities of the references especially in the Pentateuch, the question arises as to what was expressed by the biblical use of Elyon for the God of ancient Israel.