Theology

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.

Eilert Herms reconstructs Weinberg's description of the process of the cosmos and shows: The enduring presence of this process for inner-cosmic persons, who explore it, is not only the condition of possibility for this exploration, but also the real condition of possibility and the real medium of the process itself.

What did Paul find wrong with the Jewish Law? A. Andrew Das returns to E. P. Sanders and argues that both the New Perspective and Paul-within-Judaism overreach: Paul's objection is not to the Law itself but to trusting it for salvation apart from Christ. The grace-works contrast stands, nuanced by the Law's ethnic implications for gentiles.

How can compassion be reimagined today from theological and philosophical perspectives? Daniel Gerte explores Johann Baptist Metz's theology of compassion within the broader context of his work and develops it further into the concept of a »mytho-compathic Christianity.«