Theology

Hendrik Niether presents an academic and political biography of the theologian Otto Piper (1891-1982), focusing on his life and thought during the Weimar Republic. Using the constellation paradigm, he analyzes Piper's work and political engagement from the perspectives of intellectual and theological history.

How did people in ancient Israel perceive God, the world, and themselves? Bernd Janowski explores Old Testament aesthetics using the concept of perception (aisthesis) and substantiates this through analyses of basic concepts such as beauty and glory, as well as the main themes of space/time experiences, the vision of God (visio Dei), etc.

Christian Blumenthal interprets the Epistle of Jude and the Second Epistle of Peter in their cultural contexts, elaborates on their strategic theological ambiguities, and inquires into their pragmatic potential against the backdrop of the expansive polemical black-and-white contrasts in both epistles.

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.