Theology

Drawing on theoretical and methodological perspectives ranging from material philology and digital humanities to cognitive science, the contributors to this volume present novel approaches to the study of the nature and functions of Coptic apocrypha in the context of late antique and early Islamic Egypt.

What rhetorical strategies with the goal of edification do theologians pursue in sermons? How are their theological concepts expressed in this aesthetic form, which is oriented towards the reality of people's lives? This volume is intended as a foundation for understanding the most important Protestant theologians since the Enlightenment.

Siegfried Kracauer was a sociologist, film theorist, and critic of religion, yet he grappled with theological questions throughout his life. Ansgar Martins traces his »wanderings« through Judaism, esotericism, and Marxism.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have always constituted themselves historically, through competing interpretations of a shared inheritance. Joining historical and religious inquiry, David Nirenberg illuminates the many possibilities of relation between past and present.