Theology

Social interaction is shaped by both positive and negative emotions. The norm of μακροθυμία (long-suffering), which constitutes and defines interpersonal interaction, intervenes precisely in this complex of emotionality and relationships. Kerstin Reussner investigates what characterizes μακροθυμία, what it means in ancient texts, in which contexts it is relevant and how it is theologically substantiated.

Christian Blumenthal interprets the Epistle of Jude and the Second Epistle of Peter in their cultural contexts, elaborates on their strategic theological ambiguities, and inquires into their pragmatic potential against the backdrop of the expansive polemical black-and-white contrasts in both epistles.

In the first volume of his two-volume theological anthropology, Hans-Christoph Askani takes the monastic way of existence as a guide for discovering what is at stake in being human. Like in a magnifying mirror, the fundamental unfinishedness of all human existence is meant to come into view here.

Christian Steiner develops a systematic theological reconstruction of Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of reconciliation under the guiding concept of amicitia Dei. He shows that Thomas understands reconciliation not as a legal settlement or purely ethical model, but as a Trinitarian-based friendship between God and man.