Theology

The sixth church membership survey in Germany offers current empirical insights into how respondents perceive »church« and how they assess its activities. Alongside an introduction to the study's methodology and interpretive framework, the book focuses primarily on the analysis and interpretation of key findings in the area of religious education.

This volume investigates the daily Liturgy of the Hours in Lutheran territories and cities after the Reformation. It presents two case studies, one on the Berlin Residenzstift and one on the two Leipzig parish churches of St. Thomas and St. Nikolai, supplemented by essays on the local historical and liturgical-historical context.

The contributors to this volume critically reassess biblical texts through ecological and interdisciplinary lenses and demonstrate how the Bible can influence ethical discourses on sustainability, justice, and environmental responsibility today.

The Holy Spirit is central in the Gospel of John. Michael R. Jost compares the Johannine conception of the Holy Spirit with the Daimonion of Socrates in (Middle) Platonic writings, offering a clarification of the Johannine discourse on spirits as well as impulses for the religious-historical classification of the fourth Gospel.