Theology

How can closeness be shaped responsibly - protecting trust without enabling abuse? This book outlines an ethics of closeness, grounded in bodily integrity and mindful of power imbalances. It examines how key Christian concepts like community and trust can be misused, and how theology and church structures must respond.

What role did the Sermon on the Mount play in 19th-century academic discourse? How did it come to occupy its position? And what does its productive reception entail? Joel Klenk and Jan Reitzner address these questions through Tholuck and Baur as key figures of the theology of their time.

Traugott Jähnichen and Wolfgang Maaser provide a source-based overview of the 2,000-year history of the church's charitable work. Fundamental motifs, transformations, ruptures, and innovations reveal diakonia as an indispensable dimension of the churches with significant public relevance.

Given the criticism of compassion expressed as far back as antiquity, its positive assessment and relevance to theology, Christology, and ethics in the Gospel of Luke is surprising. Elisa M. Klein situates this in the context of philosophical and early Jewish conceptions of emotion and highlights the significance of disgust in the Gospel.