Theology

The contributions in this volume address Schelling's final and thoroughly revised late philosophy. From the mid-1840s onward, Schelling subjected his philosophy to a fundamental revision that, through strikingly modern philosophical methods, aims at a genuinely critically-compliant metaphysics.

In twelve revised and expanded essays on the Johannine writings, Michael Theobald takes up central debates - the genesis of the Corpus Iohanneum, the Johannine Lord's Supper - and turns his attention to questions of reception history, such as the interpretation of the Gospel in mysticism.

Johann Andreas Cramer (1723-1788) was one of the most renowned theologians and preachers in the German-speaking world of his time. Brinja Bauer examines Cramer's life and work in the context of the theological Enlightenment and highlights his significance as a Lutheran theologian, poet, and cultural mediator of the eighteenth century.

The fundamental intuition of hermeneutical theology is that faith is understood as understanding - but what happens when non-understanding sets in? In this study of Fuchs, Ebeling, and Jüngel, Simon Haug examines their understanding of understanding and identifies non-understanding as a central dimension of understanding and faith.