Theology

Modern theology has long treated miracles as an embarrassment - relics of a pre-scientific age. This volume reverses the lens: it reads miracle narratives as semiotic processes that do not break reality but interpret it.

Twenty-five leading scholars reimagine the history of the Pentateuch. From the materiality of the scrolls and the scribal cultures that produced them, through central themes and compositional features, to the early reception of the Pentateuch in Second Temple literature, this volume offers a wide-ranging snapshot of Pentateuchal research today.

Robert Martin Jockel undertakes a systematic (re)construction of Eberhard Jüngel's Christology on the basis of the guiding idea of the humanity of God as a story to be told, thus making it plausible as a narrative-hermeneutical Christology.

Tracing the public debates on church-state relations in the nineteenth century shows that this relationship was shaped both by a gradual departure from sovereign church rule and by the formation of Protestant ecclesial identity, thereby substantiating the viability of the definition of the relationship which is still valid today.