series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte

Published by De Gruyter

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte

Edited by: Christian Albrecht, Christoph Markschies and Christopher Ocker
Founded by: Karl Holl and Hans Lietzmann

ISSN: 1861-5996

Overview
Volumes

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte first began publication in 1925 and can claim to be one of the most tradition-rich historical book series. It presents research on the history of Christian churches and dogmas through the ages but also publishes papers on related disciplines such as archeology, history of art and literary studies. One of the series’ leading features is its consistent striving to combine historical-methodical precision with systematic contextualization of each examined topic. In recent years the series has increasingly publishedstudies on themes relating to the history of Christian culture and ideas, viewed within a methodically open perspective on the history of Christianity.

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Book Ahead of Publication 2023

The Reception of John Chrysostom in Early Modern Europe

Translating and Reading a Greek Church Father from 1417 to 1624

Sam Kennerley

Volume 157 in this series

The Reception of John Chrysostom in Early Modern Europe explores when, how, why, and by whom one of the most influential Fathers of the Greek Church was translated and read during a particularly significant period in the reception of his works. This was the period between the first Neo-Latin translation of Chrysostom in 1417 and the final volume of Fronton du Duc’s Greek-Latin edition in 1624, years in which readers and translators from Renaissance Italy, the Byzantine Empire, and the Basel, Paris, and Rome of a newly-confessionalised Europe found in Chrysostom everything from a guide to Latin oratory, to a model interpreter of Paul. By drawing on evidence that ranges from Greek manuscripts to conciliar acts, this book contextualises the hundreds of translations and editions of Chrysostom that were produced in Europe between 1417 and 1624, while demonstrating the lasting impact of these works on scholarship about this Church Father today.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110708905
ISBN:: 9783110708905
ISBN:: 9783110708844
ISBN:: 9783110708967
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2022

Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity

Transmission and Transformation of Ideas

Radka Fialová, Jiří Hoblík, Petr Kitzler

Volume 155 in this series

Papers collected in this volume try to illuminate various aspects of philosophical theology dealt with by different Jewish and early Christian authors and texts (e.g. the Acts of the Apostles, Philo, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus), rooted in and influenced by the Hellenistic religious, cultural, and philosophical context, and they also focus on the literary and cultural traditions of Hellenized Judaism and its reception (e.g. Sibylline Oracles, Prayer of Manasseh), including material culture ("Elephant Mosaic Panel" from Huqoq synagogue). By studying the Hellenistic influences on early Christianity, both in response to and in reaction against early Hellenized Judaism, the volume intends not only to better understand Christianity, as a religious and historical phenomenon with a profound impact on the development of European civilization, but also to better comprehend Hellenism and its consequences which have often been relegated to the realm of political history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110796285
ISBN:: 9783110796285
ISBN:: 9783110796407
ISBN:: 9783110795073
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Pentateuch and Historical Books
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Orgies of Words

Mystery Terminology in the “Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel” by Nonnus of Panopolis

Filip Doroszewski, Damian Jasiński

Volume 154 in this series

Nonnus’ Paraphrasis, an epic rendition of the Fourth Gospel, offers a highly sophisticated interpretation of the Johannine text. An essential means to this end is extensive use of the imagery related to Greek, and especially Dionysiac, mysteries.

Doroszewski successfully challenges the once predominant view that the mystery terminology in the poem is nothing more than rhetorical ornament. He convincingly argues for an important exegetical role Nonnus gives to the mystery terms. On the one hand, they refer to the Mystery of Christ. Jesus introduces his followers into the new dimension of life and worship that enables them to commune with God. This is portrayed as falling into Bacchic frenzy and being initiated into secret rites. On the other hand, the terminology has a polemical function, too, as Nonnus uses it to present the Judaic cult as bearing the hallmarks of pagan mysteries.

As the book discusses the Paraphrasis against the background of the mystery metaphor development in antiquity, it serves as an excellent introduction to this key feature of the ancient mentality and will appeal to all interested in the culture of Imperial times, especially in Early Christianity, Patristics, Neoplatonism and Late Antique poetry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110790900
ISBN:: 9783110790900
ISBN:: 9783110790979
ISBN:: 9783110790856
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: John
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2022

Photios' von Konstantinopel "Mystagogie des Heiligen Geistes"

Übersetzung und theologischer Kommentar

Theodoros Alexopoulos

Volume 153 in this series

This volume is a German translation and theological and historical commentary on a very important, controversial theological treatise from the early Middle Ages, the Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit by the patriarch Photios of Constantinople, which is considered a flagship in the orthodox critique of the Filioque approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110790269
ISBN:: 9783110790269
ISBN:: 9783110790504
ISBN:: 9783110790115
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2022

Migration and Diaspora Formation

New Perspectives on a Global History of Christianity

Ciprian Burlăcioiu

Volume 152 in this series

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The role of migration for Christianity as a world religion during the last two centuries has drawn considerable attention from scholars in different fields. The main issue this book seeks to address is the question whether and to what extent migration and diaspora formation should be considered as elements of a new historiography of global Christianity, including the reflection upon earlier epochs.

By focusing on migration and diaspora, the emerging map of Christianity will include the dimension of movement and interaction between actors in different regions, providing a more comprehensive ‘map of agency’ of individuals and groups previously regarded as passive. Furthermore, local histories will become parts of a broader picture and historiography might correlate both local and transregional perspectives in a balanced manner.

Behind this approach lies the desire to broaden the perspective of Ecclesiastical History – and religious history in general – in a more systematic manner by questioning the traditional criteria of selection. This might help us to recover previously lost actors and forgotten dynamics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110790160
ISBN:: 9783110790160
ISBN:: 9783110790412
ISBN:: 9783110789218
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Migration History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Neue Texte und Studien zu den antiken und frühmittelalterlichen Glaubensbekenntnissen III

Wolfram Kinzig

Volume 151 in this series

This third volume of the author’s "New Texts and Studies" brings together further editions of previously overlooked or unknown Latin and Greek source texts dealing with creeds as well as articles, some of them previously unpublished, on various aspects of creed research from the ancient period to the early Middle Ages. This fundamentally revises our traditional understanding of the formulas of Christian faith.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720945
ISBN:: 9783110720945
ISBN:: 9783110720990
ISBN:: 9783110714630
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Acts of Synods, Catenae and other Sources
Subject:: History of Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Bishops under Threat

Contexts and Episcopal Strategies in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West

Sabine Panzram, Pablo Poveda Arias

Volume 150 in this series

The late antique and the early medieval periods witnessed the flourishing of bishops in the West as the main articulators of social life. This influential position exposed them to several threats, both political and religious. Researchers have generally addressed violence, rebellions or conflicts to study the dynamics related to secular powers during these periods. They haven’t paid similar attention, however, to those analogous contexts that had bishops as protagonists. This book proposes an approach to bishops as threatened subjects in the late antique and early medieval West. In particular, the volume pursues three main goals. Firstly, it aims to identify the different types of threats that bishops had to deal with. Then it sets out to frame these situations of adversity in their own contexts. Finally, it will address the episcopal strategies deployed to deal with such contexts of adversity. In sum, we aim to underline the impact that these contexts had as a dynamiting factor of episcopal action. Thus the episcopal threats may become a useful approach to study the bishops’ relationships with other agents of power, the motivations behind their actions and – last but not least – for understanding the episcopal rising power

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110778649
ISBN:: 9783110778649
ISBN:: 9783110769531
ISBN:: 9783110778724
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Verteidigung der Wahrheit

Leonhard Hutter (1563–1616) als Universitätslehrer und Kontroverstheologe

Lars Röser-Israel

Volume 149 in this series

Defending truth was the task that Lutheran orthodoxy set for itself. This monograph is the first to examine one of their most renowned representatives, Leonhard Hutter. It focuses on academic teaching, which Hutter’s disputations shed light on. It also illustrates the mechanisms of the controversial theology of the day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756777
ISBN:: 9783110756777
ISBN:: 9783110754896
ISBN:: 9783110756814
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Dogmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Die »Biblia Sacra – Derekh ha-Kodesh« des Elias Hutter

Eine sprachdidaktische, kultur- und editionsgeschichtliche Analyse

Christoph Krasemann

Volume 148 in this series

Elias Hutter was interested in the unity of language and religion, about which he wrote an impressive magnum opus in the late sixteenth century. He believed that Hebrew, as the original divine language, was the answer to his question, and wanted to revolutionize its study. To do so, he developed new methods for language pedagogy in combination with theological concepts, which this publication introduces and places within their historic context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110734126
ISBN:: 9783110734126
ISBN:: 9783110734201
ISBN:: 9783110738506
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Das Glaubensbekenntnis von Konstantinopel (381)

Herkunft, Geltung und Rezeption. Neue Texte und Studien zu den antiken und frühmittelalterlichen Glaubensbekenntnissen II

Wolfram Kinzig

Volume 147 in this series

This book provides a comprehensive new examination of the origins, adoption, and reception of the creed that ecclesiastical tradition has attributed to the second Ecumenical Council (Constantinople, 381), also referred to as the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed. It is the most widely disseminated ecumenical creed in Christianity and probably the most influential non-biblical text within the church.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110720952
ISBN:: 9783110720952
ISBN:: 9783110714616
ISBN:: 9783110720983
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Acts of Synods, Catenae and other Sources
Subject:: History of Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Kirche in der Krise

Zum Streit um die Christologie im 7. Jahrhundert

Heinz Ohme

Volume 146 in this series

The last attempt in Christology to reach a theological understanding with opponents of the Council of Chalcedon (451) led to a severe seventh-century crisis, resulting in synodal condemnations, state trials, and schisms. At stake were the impact, will, and intentions of Jesus Christ. Fifteen studies analyze sources in order to identify the causes and provide new answers, providing some important sources in German translation for the first time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714531
ISBN:: 9783110714531
ISBN:: 9783110714494
ISBN:: 9783110714555
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Acts of Synods, Catenae and other Sources
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Berolinensia

Beiträge zur Geschichte der Berliner Universität und ihrer Theologischen Fakultät

Christoph Markschies

Volume 145 in this series

This volume brings together studies on the history of Berlin’s university and its theological faculty. It examines the founding phase as well as significant instigators like the brothers Humboldt and Schleiermacher, the major academics and academic organizers of the turn of the following century, in particular Adolf von Harnack, and important personalities from the first half of the twentieth century, such as Werner Jaeger and Hans Lietzmann.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714722
ISBN:: 9783110714722
ISBN:: 9783110714593
ISBN:: 9783110714784
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Schleiermacher
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

The Protracted Reformation in the North

Volume III from the Project “The Protracted Reformation in Northern Norway” (PRiNN)

Sigrun Høgetveit Berg, Rognald Heiseldal Bergesen, Roald Ernst Kristiansen

Volume 144 in this series

The formation of the European nation states was deeply affected by the Reformation processes during the 16th century. In order to understand today's Europe, it is necessary to come to terms with the historical processes that shaped these emerging nation states. The book discusses such processes with particular attention to how they affected the northernmost parts of Europe. The book consists of three main parts: 1) Church and State, 2) Interaction and Networks, 3) Ideas and Images. In the first part, the authors examine various aspects of the relationship between the church and the state, and how the Reformation processes contributed to reshape this relationship. In the second part, the development of the social and economic networks among the population of Northern Fennoscandia is mapped, taking account of how such networks were affected by different ethnic groups. The role of the church and the mission in the state integration of the Northern borderless areas is also examined, as well as the new Lutheran clergy and their social and material conditions. In the third part, the visual and material expressions of the Reformation period is analyzed, as well as the encounter between the Catholic, the Lutheran and the Sámi religion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686210
ISBN:: 9783110686210
ISBN:: 9783110686289
ISBN:: 9783110685992
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Religions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Schriftauslegung und Bildgebrauch bei Isidor von Pelusium

Stefan Berkmüller

Volume 143 in this series

An extensive corpus of 5^th century correspondence has been preserved under the name Isidore of Pelusium. A large part of the letters is comprised by biblical interpretations and statements on exegetic theory. This volume sifts through all of these texts, arranging them according to criteria reflective of the contemporary mindset and exegesis. It also examines Isidor’s use of imagery and the creativity of his engagement with the Bible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686180
ISBN:: 9783110686180
ISBN:: 9783110685930
ISBN:: 9783110686241
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Lutheran Music Culture

Ideals and Practices

Mattias Lundberg, Maria Schildt, Jonas Lundblad

Volume 142 in this series

This volume presents a novel and distinct contribution to previous research on the rich Lutheran heritage of music. It builds upon a current surge of interest in the field, which resonates with a wider interest in connections between music and religion, as well as with cultural and aesthetic dimensions of faith at large. The book situates the topic in relation to recent developments within historical and cultural studies that have developed a more nuanced and positive view of the interplay between theologians and other cultural agents in the evolution of Western modernity during post Reformation processes of ‘confessionalization’. It combines conceptual discussions of key terms relevant to the study of the development and significance of an Early Modern Lutheran Music Culture with theological readings of central texts on music, analytic approaches to historical repertoires and material perspectives on its dissemination.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110680959
ISBN:: 9783110680959
ISBN:: 9783110681062
ISBN:: 9783110680607
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Christian Life
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Die Rede vom Jüngsten Gericht in den Konfessionen der Frühen Neuzeit

Frank Alexander Kurzmann

Volume 141 in this series

Lange Zeit blieb die frühneuzeitliche Rede vom Jüngsten Gericht weitgehend unbeachtet. Dies gilt sowohl für die Topik des Letzten Gerichts nach den Werken bei Luther und im Luthertum der Frühen Neuzeit, als auch für die Frage nach inter- und transkonfessionellen Phänomenen mit Bezug zur Thematik des Endgerichts.

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht im breit angelegten Zugriff frühneuzeitliche, hauptsächlich deutschsprachige Texte verschiedener konfessioneller Provenienz, in denen vom Jüngsten Gericht die Rede ist. Dabei werden diverse Gesichtspunkte und Kontexte beleuchtet und vielfältige literarische Gattungen in die Untersuchungen einbezogen.

Es zeigt sich, dass die verschiedenen Aspekte des Theologumenons des Endgerichts (das von Martin Luther und den frühneuzeitlich-lutherischen Theologen durchaus als Gericht nach den Werken verstanden wird) zum einen zur Profilierung konfessioneller Identität bzw. zur Abgrenzung gegenüber anderen Konfessionen oder Nonkonformisten herangezogen werden, zum anderen konfessionsübergreifende Traditionen darstellen, mitunter Gegenstand interkonfessionellen Austausches sind – und als gemeinsame Basis für die Kooperation zwischen Angehörigen verschiedener Konfessionen dienen können.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110617313
ISBN:: 9783110617313
ISBN:: 9783110614886
ISBN:: 9783110614954
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Were We Ever Protestants?

Essays in Honour of Tarald Rasmussen

Sivert Angel, Hallgeir Elstad, Eivor Andersen Oftestad

Volume 140 in this series

This anthology discusses different aspects of Protestantism, past and present.

Professor Tarald Rasmussen has written both on medieval and modern theologians, but his primary interest has remained the reformation and 16th century church history. In stead of a traditional «Festschrift» honouring the different fields of research he has contributed to, this will be a focused anthology treating a specific theme related to Rasmussen’s research profile.

One of Professor Rasmussen's most recent publications, a little popularized book in Norwegian titled «What is Protestantism?», reveals a central aspect research interest, namely the Weberian interest for Protestantism’s cultural significance. Despite difficulties, he finds the concept useful as a Weberian «Idealtypus» enabling research on a phenomenon combining theological, historical and sociological dimensions. Thus he employs the Protestantism as an integrative concept to trace the makeup of today’s secular societies.

This profiled approach is a point of departure for this anthology discussing important aspects of historiography in reformation history: Continuity and breaks surrounding the reformation, contemporary significance of reformation history research, traces of the reformation in today’s society.

The book relates to current discussions on Protestantism and is relevant to everyone who want to keep up to date with the latest research in the field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110600544
ISBN:: 9783110600544
ISBN:: 9783110599015
ISBN:: 9783110598285
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual

Lewis Ayres, H. Clifton Ward

Volume 139 in this series

The study of the growth of early Christian intellectual life is of perennial interest to scholars. This volume advances discussion by exploring ways in which Christian writers in the second century did not so much draw on Hellenistic intellectual traditions and models, as they were inevitably embedded in those traditions.

The volume contains papers from a seminar in Rome in 2016 that explored the nature and activity of the emergent Christian intellectual between the late first century and the early third century. The papers show that Hellenistic scholarly cultures were the milieu within which Christian modes of thinking developed. At the same time the essays show how Christian thinkers made use of the cultures of which they were part in distinctive ways, adapting existing traditions because of Christian beliefs and needs.

The figures studied include Papias from the early part of the second-century, Tatian, Irenaeus, and Clement of Alexandria from the later second century. One paper on Eusebius of Caesarea explores the Christian adaptation of Hellenistic scholarly methods of commentary. Christian figures are studied in the light of debates within Classics and Jewish studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110608632
ISBN:: 9783110608632
ISBN:: 9783110608007
ISBN:: 9783110607550
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

The Emergence of Religious Toleration in Eighteenth-Century New England

Baptists, Congregationalists, and the Contribution of John Callender (1706-1748)

Jeffrey A. Waldrop

Volume 138 in this series

This book examines the life and work of the Reverend John Callender (1706-1748) within the context of the emergence of religious toleration in New England in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a relatively recent endeavor in light of the well-worn theme of persecution in colonial American religious history.

New England Puritanism was the culmination of different shades of transatlantic puritan piety, and it was the Puritan’s pious adherence to the Covenant model that compelled them to punish dissenters such as Quakers and Baptists. Eventually, a number of factors contributed to the decline of persecution, and the subsequent emergence of toleration. For the Baptists, toleration was first realized in 1718, when Elisha Callender was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Boston by Congregationalist Cotton Mather.

John Callender, Elisha Callender’s nephew, benefited from Puritan and Baptist influences, and his life and work serves as one example of the nascent religious understanding between Baptists and Congregationalists during this specific period. Callender’s efforts are demonstrated through his pastoral ministry in Rhode Island and other parts of New England, through his relationships with notable Congregationalists, and through his writings. Callender’s publications contributed to the history of the colony of Rhode Island, and provided source material for the work of notable Baptist historian, Isaac Backus, in his own struggle for religious liberty a generation later.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110588194
ISBN:: 9783110588194
ISBN:: 9783110586558
ISBN:: 9783110586275
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Episcopal Networks in Late Antiquity

Connection and Communication Across Boundaries

Carmen Angela Cvetković, Peter Gemeinhardt

Volume 137 in this series

Recent studies on the development of early Christianity emphasize the fragmentation of the late ancient world while paying less attention to a distinctive feature of the Christianity of this time which is its inter-connectivity. Both local and trans-regional networks of interaction contributed to the expansion of Christianity in this age of fragmentation. This volume investigates a specific aspect of this inter-connectivity in the area of the Mediterranean by focusing on the formation and operation of episcopal networks.

The rise of the bishop as a major figure of authority resulted in an increase in long-distance communication among church elites coming from different geographical areas and belonging to distinct ecclesiastical and theological traditions. Locally, the bishops in their roles as teachers, defenders of faith, patrons etc. were expected to interact with individuals of diverse social background who formed their congregations and with secular authorities. Consequently, this volume explores the nature and quality of various types of episcopal relationships in Late Antiquity attempting to understand how they were established, cultivated and put to use across cultural, linguistic, social and geographical boundaries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110553390
ISBN:: 9783110553390
ISBN:: 9783110551884
ISBN:: 9783110552515
ISBN:: 9783110736625
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Acts of Synods, Catenae and other Sources
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Kirche und Kaiser in Antike und Spätantike

Uta Heil, Jörg Ulrich

Volume 136 in this series

The Imperium Romanum was marked by a diverse and differentiated history of reciprocal interaction with the church and theology. The study examines this ever-changing relationship, encompassing a broad time span from the first to the sixth century. The essays include both the Eastern and Western parts of the Imperium and its successor states, and explore the theme by drawing from a wide range of literary genres.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110527919
ISBN:: 9783110527919
ISBN:: 9783110527117
ISBN:: 9783110527209
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2016

Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity

Studies in Text Transmission

Dirk Rohmann

Volume 135 in this series

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It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486070
ISBN:: 9783110486070
ISBN:: 9783110485554
ISBN:: 9783110484458
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Georgius Cassander’s 'De officio pii viri' (1561)

Critical edition with contemporary French and German translations

Rob van de Schoor, Guillaume H. M. Posthumus Meyjes

Volume 134 in this series

The printing history of perhaps the most influential tract in the history of irenicism (church reunification), Georgius Cassander's De officio pii viri, in 1561 presented at the Colloquy at Poissy, together with an overview of its afterlife and the numerous reactions it provoked, both by Protestants and Roman Catholics, will contribute to our understanding of the history of erasmian humanist irenicism.

Two contemporary translations, one in German by Georg von Cell and one in French by Jean Hotman, show us how De officio pii viri was adapted to the ongoing struggle for church peace in different parts of Europe, a struggle that was led by jurists and theologians, outstanding members of the Republic of Letters, who were able to spread their ideas by their large epistolary networks.

The life story of De officio pii viri highlights the birth, expansion and failure of ideas; how they profit from the support of the mighty and how they fail when opposed by the uncompromising: those who think they speak in the name of God.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110485318
ISBN:: 9783110485318
ISBN:: 9783110481983
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Salvation and Solvency

The Socio-Economic Policies of Early Mormonism

Robert Christian Kahlert

Volume 133 in this series

This monograph tracks the development of the socio-economic stance of early Mormonism, an American Millenarian Restorationist movement, through the first fourteen years of the church’s existence, from its incorporation in the spring of 1830 in New York, through Ohio and Missouri and Illinois, up to the lynching of its prophet Joseph Smith Jr in the summer of 1844. Mormonism used a new revelation, the Book of Mormon, and a new apostolically inspired church organization to connect American antiquities to covenant-theological salvation history. The innovative religious strategy was coupled with a conservative socio-economic stance that was supportive of technological innovation.
This analysis of the early Mormon church uses case studies focused on socio-economic problems, such as wealth distribution, the financing of publication projects, land trade and banking, and caring for the poor. In order to correct for the agentive overtones of standard Mormon historiography, both in its supportive and in its detractive stance, the explanatory models of social time from Fernand Braudel’s classic work on the Mediterranean are transferred to and applied in the nineteenth-century American context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110473476
ISBN:: 9783110473476
ISBN:: 9783110472677
ISBN:: 9783110470208
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Religions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Neue Texte und Studien zu den antiken und frühmittelalterlichen Glaubensbekenntnissen

Wolfram Kinzig

Volume 132 in this series

The first part of this volume contains a series of Latin and Greek creeds (symbols) from antiquity and the Early Middle Ages along with contemporary symbolic interpretations. The second part includes studies on the origins and history of creeds as well as their use in different historical contexts (history of piety, liturgy, and law).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110432237
ISBN:: 9783110432237
ISBN:: 9783110432374
ISBN:: 9783110439519
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Religions
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Krieg mit dem Wort

Türkenpredigten des 16. Jahrhunderts im Alten Reich

Damaris Grimmsmann

Volume 131 in this series

This is the first monograph devoted to the widely disseminated 16^th century “Sermons on the Turk.” The work fills a gap in scholarship on the Turkish question in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The volume includes 299 sermons by 38 authors, with a focus on their liturgical setting, the authors’ level of knowledge, and specific denominational patterns in interpreting the Turks and Islam.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110428599
ISBN:: 9783110428599
ISBN:: 9783110428704
ISBN:: 9783110427851
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Orthodoxie im Dialog

Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven

Reinhard Flogaus, Jennifer Wasmuth

Volume 130 in this series

Die orthodoxen Kirchen werden oft als dialogunfähig wahrgenommen. Sie erscheinen als monolithische Gebilde, die sich neueren Entwicklungen verschließen. Der Sammelband zeigt demgegenüber auf, in welch vielfältiger Hinsicht die orthodoxen Kirchen im "Dialog" stehen: mit anderen Konfession (Katholizismus, Protestantismus) und Religionen (Islam), mit heterodoxen Strömungen, mit der Moderne. Auch der innerorthodoxe Dialog in Gestalt von Konzilien wird in den Blick genommen. Eine Reihe von Beiträgen behandelt schließlich das Thema "Orthodoxie und Ökumene", das seine besondere Brisanz vor dem Hintergrund stagnierender Tendenzen in der gegenwärtigen ökumenischen Bewegung gewinnt.
Die Festschrift ist dem evangelischen Theologen Heinz Ohme gewidmet, der an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin die Professur für Kirchen- und Konfessionskunde / Ostkirchenkunde bekleidet hat und mit Arbeiten zur patristischen wie byzantinischen Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte hervorgetreten ist.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110421415
ISBN:: 978-3-11-042568-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-042141-5
ISBN:: 9783110421521
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522)

A Theological Biography

Franz Posset

Volume 129 in this series

This is the first biography in English of Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), based upon the new critical edition of his correspondence. Reuchlin became most famous as the Catholic defender of Jewish books at the beginning of the 16th century, clarifying the Catholic Church’s position toward the Jews. The book contributes to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration on Relations with the Jews of the Second Vatican Council in 1965.

Franz Posset, PhD, Dipl.-Theol., is internationally known as Catholic Luther scholar, specializing in the theology and history of the Renaissance and Reformation, author of Pater Bernhardus: Martin Luther and Bernard of Clairvaux (1999), The Front-Runner of the Catholic Reformation (on Johann von Staupitz) (2003), Renaissance Monks (2005), The Real Luther (2011), Marcus Marulus and the Biblia Latina of 1489 (2013), and a book in German, Unser Martin. Martin Luther aus der Sicht katholischer Sympathisanten (2015).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110418637
ISBN:: 9783110419474
ISBN:: 9783110418637
ISBN:: 9783110418804
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Judaism
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2016

Anaxagoras, Origen, and Neoplatonism

The Legacy of Anaxagoras to Classical and Late Antiquity

Panayiotis Tzamalikos

Volume 128 in this series

Origen has been always studied as a theologian and too much credit has been given to Eusebius’ implausible hagiography of him. This book explores who Origen really was, by pondering into his philosophical background, which determines his theological exposition implicitly, yet decisively. For this background to come to light, it took a ground-breaking exposition of Anaxagoras’ philosophy and its legacy to Classical and Late Antiquity (Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Origen, Neoplatonism), assessing critically Aristotle’s distorted representation of Anaxagoras. Origen, formerly a Greek philosopher of note, whom Proclus styled an anti-Platonist, is placed in the history of philosophy for the first time. By drawing on his Anaxagorean background, and being the first to revive the Anaxagorean Theory of Logoi, he paved the way to Nicaea. He was an anti-Platonist because he was an Anaxagorean philosopher with far-reaching influence, also on Neoplatonists such as Porphyry. His theology made an impact not only on the Cappadocians, but also on later Christian authors. His theory of the soul, now expounded in the light of his philosophical background, turns out more orthodox than that of some Christian stars of the Byzantine imperial orthodoxy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420104
ISBN:: 9783110420104
ISBN:: 9783110420197
ISBN:: 9783110419467
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Selected Philosophical Movements
Subject:: Neoplatonism
Subject:: Selected Philosophers
Subject:: Heidegger
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

From ‘Passio Perpetuae’ to ‘Acta Perpetuae’

Recontextualizing a Martyr Story in the Literature of the Early Church

Petr Kitzler

Volume 127 in this series

While concentrated on the famous Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis, this book focuses on an area that has so far been somewhat marginalized or even overlooked by modern interpreters: the recontextualizing of the Passio Perpetuae in the subsequent reception of this text in the literature of the early Church. Since its composition in the early decades of the 3rd century, the Passio Perpetuae was enjoying an extraordinary authority and popularity. However, it contained a number of revolutionary and innovative features that were in conflict with existing social and theological conventions. This book analyses all relevant texts from the 3rd to 5th centuries in which Perpetua and her comrades are mentioned, and demonstrates the ways in which these texts strive to normalize the innovative aspects of the Passio Perpetuae. These efforts, visible as they are already on careful examination of the passages of the editor of the passio, continue from Tertullian to Augustine and his followers. The normalization of the narrative reaches its peak in the so-called Acta Perpetuae which represent a radical rewriting of the original and an attempt to replace it by a purified text, more compliant with the changed socio-theological hierarchies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110418675
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041942-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041867-5
ISBN:: 9783110418811
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Religiöse Sucher in der Moderne

Konversionen vom Judentum zum Protestantismus in Wien um 1900

Astrid Schweighofer

Volume 126 in this series

Around 1900, numerous conversions from Judaism to Christianity took place in Vienna. Most notable for predominantly Catholic Vienna was the number of individuals who found their way to the Protestant Church. What was their motivation in taking this step? The study examines the religious biographies of major figures in fin-de-siècle Vienna, illuminating their religious and ideological beliefs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366013
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036767-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036601-3
ISBN:: 9783110391411
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Anastasios Sinaites

Byzantinisches Christentum in den ersten Jahrzehnten unter arabischer Herrschaft

Karl-Heinz Uthemann

Volume 125 in this series

At long last, this book provides a comprehensive study of the life and work of the 7th century monk and theologian Anastasius Sinaïta (Anastasios of Sinai). It analyzes his principal work, the Hodegos (or Viae Dux) and his other Christological writings, and also presents his sermons and his role as an apologist toward the Jews and Moslems and an exegetist of Genesis 1–3.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110332520
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033240-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033252-0
ISBN:: 9783110382334
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Dogmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Providence Perceived

Divine Action from a Human Point of View

Mark W. Elliott

Volume 124 in this series

This book will offer an account not so much of God’s Providence an sich, but rather of divine providence as experienced by believers and unbelievers. It will not ask questions about whether and how God knows the future, or how suffering can be accounted for (as is the case in the treatments by William Lane Craig, Richard Swinburne, or J. Sanders), but will focus on prayer and decision-making as a faithful and/or desperate response to the perception of God as having some controlling influence. The following gives an idea of the ground to be covered: The patristic foundations of the Christian view of Providence; The medieval synthesis of ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ views; Reformational and Early Modern: the shift towards piety; Modern Enlightenment: Providence and Ethics; Barth and the Sceptics; The sense of Providence in the Modern Novel and World.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310641
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031056-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031064-1
ISBN:: 9783110382976
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Brudermord, Freiheitsdrang, Weltenrichter

Religiöse Kommunikation und öffentliche Theologie in der amerikanischen Revolutionsepoche

Ulrich Rosenhagen

Volume 123 in this series

This work examines public discourse during the America Revolutionary era and offers new insights into faith communication and public theology in America. The analysis is focused on the basic synthesis of faith and freedom and the religious elements in this synthesis. These elements are not tied back to Church teachings, but instead, interpreted as faith communications within the discourse of revolution.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110309591
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030946-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030959-1
ISBN:: 9783110388251
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Religiosus Ludens

Das Spiel als kulturelles Phänomen in mittelalterlichen Klöstern und Orden

Jörg Sonntag

Volume 122 in this series

This volume offers a novel perspective on games as part of the living world of medieval monasteries and convents, the vita religiosa, as well as on the concept of order during the Middle Ages. It undertakes a multidisciplinary discussion of the creative force shown by the members of religious orders in inventing, adapting, and transmitting games, along with the ethical, social, and theological meanings these games had in pre-modern society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110305074
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030506-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030507-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Religious Conflict from Early Christianity to the Rise of Islam

Wendy Mayer, Bronwen Neil

Volume 121 in this series

Conflict has been an inescapable facet of religion from its very beginnings. This volume offers insight into the mechanisms at play in the centuries from the Jesus-movement’s first attempts to define itself over and against Judaism to the beginnings of Islam. Profiling research by scholars of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University, the essays document inter- and intra-religious conflict from a variety of angles. Topics relevant to the early centuries range from religious conflict between different parts of the Christian canon, types of conflict, the origins of conflict, strategies for winning, for conflict resolution, and the emergence of a language of conflict. For the fourth to seventh centuries case studies from Asia Minor, Syria, Constantinople, Gaul, Arabia and Egypt are presented. The volume closes with examinations of the Christian and Jewish response to Islam, and of Islam’s response to Christianity. Given the political and religious tensions in the world today, this volume is well positioned to find relevance and meaning in societies still grappling with the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291940
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029178-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029194-0
ISBN:: 9783110488500
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics

Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven, William A. Barbieri, Jr.

Volume 120 in this series

This book rewrites the history of Christian peace ethics. Christian reflection on reducing violence or overcoming war has roots in ancient Roman philosophy and eventually grew to influence modern international law. This historical overview begins with Cicero, the source of Christian authors like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. It is highly debatable whether Augustine had a systematic interest in just war or whether his writings were used to develop a systematic just war teaching only by the later tradition. May Christians justifiably use force to overcome disorder and achieve peace? The book traces the classical debate from Thomas Aquinas to early modern-age thinkers like Vitoria, Suarez, Martin Luther, Hugo Grotius and Immanuel Kant. It highlights the diversity of the approaches of theologians, philosophers and lawyers. Modern cosmopolitianism and international law-thinking, it shows, are rooted in the Spanish Scholastics, where Grotius and Kant each found the inspiration to inaugurate a modern peace ethic. In the 20th century the tradition has taken aim not only at reducing violence and overcoming war but at developing a constructive ethic of peace building, as is reflected in Pope John Paul II’s teaching.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291926
ISBN:: 9783110291773
ISBN:: 9783110291926
ISBN:: 9783110488487
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity

Johan Leemans, Peter Van Nuffelen, Shawn W. J. Keough, Carla Nicolaye

Volume 119 in this series

The present volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another. The importance of episcopal elections hardly needs stating: With the bishop emerging as one of the key figures of late antique society, his election was a defining moment for the local community, and an occasion when local, ecclesiastical, and secular tensions were played out. Building on the state of the art regarding late antique bishops and episcopal election, this volume of collected studies by leading scholars offers fresh perspectives by focussing on specific case-studies and opening up new approaches. Covering much of the Later Roman Empire between 250–600 AD, the contributions will be of interest to scholars interested in Late Antique Christianity across disciplines as diverse as patristics, ancient history, canon law and oriental studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268607
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026855-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026860-7
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Der problematische Prophet

Die biblische Jona-Figur in Exegese, Theologie, Literatur und Bildender Kunst

Johann Anselm Steiger, Wilhelm Kühlmann, Ulrich Heinen

Volume 118 in this series

The Old Testament Book of Jonah has attracted considerable attention ever since ancient Christian times and has stimulated the production of numerous commentaries, sermons, poetical compositions and visual depictions. Indeed, the story of Jonah has provoked heterogeneous adaptions even in the realm of contemporary literature. This volume contains studies featuring interdisciplinary exploration of the story's intermedial interpretation from ancient times through to the 20th century. In the process it considers multifaceted aspects of theology, exegesis, literature, culture and art history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268126
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026651-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026812-6
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Prophets
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Kirche in revolutionärer Zeit

Die Staatskirche in Schleswig und Holstein 1789-1851

Klaus Lemke-Paetznick

Volume 117 in this series

This study analyzes the attitude of the state church in Schleswig and Holstein to the issue of revolution in the historical context of the period 1789 to 1848. Taking a regional historical perspective, the accounts examine church functionaries in their development from critics of revolution to revolutionary activists. The conditions and aims of sermons and spiritual care in both post-revolutionary times and prior to the revolutions of 1848 are illuminated through many, often unpublished sources dating from the pre-March era.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110264166
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026415-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026416-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: History and Theory of Practical Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2012

Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD)

History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity

Peter Gemeinhardt, Johan Leemans

Volume 116 in this series

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The present volume’s focus lies on the formation of a multifaccetted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres emerge, e.g., the Lives of Saints (Athanasius on Antony), sermons (the Cappadocians), hynms (Prudentius) and more. Authors like Eusebius of Caesarea and Augustine employ martyrological language and motifs in their apologetical and polemic writings, while the Gesta Martyrum Romanorum represent a new type of veneration of the martyrs of a single site. Beyond the borders of the Roman Empire, new martyrs’ narratives can be found. Additionally, two essays deal with methodological questions of research of such sources, thereby highlighting the hitherto understudied innovations of martyrology in Late Antiquity, that is, after the end of the persecutions of Christianity by Roman Emperors. Since then, martyrology gained new importance for the formation of Christian identity within the context of a Christianized imperium. The volume thus enlarges and specifies our knowledge of this fundamental Christian discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263527
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026351-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026352-7
ISBN:: 9783110552430
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Ancient Religion
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Von Origenes und Hieronymus zu Augustinus

Studien zur antiken Theologiegeschichte

Alfons Fürst

Volume 115 in this series

This volume illuminates the work and influences of three leading antique theologians from a different perspective than the usual history of Christian dogma. With his anthropology of freedom, Origen founded scientific Biblical exegesis and theology in line with the standards of his day and laid the foundations for a Christian culture. Jerome was the greatest philologist of the Early Church. Thanks to his knowledge of Hebrew, he transmitted not only Greek but also Jewish Biblical knowledge to the Latin West through his translations and commentaries. Augustine was influenced by both these figures, but in a critical dialogue with them he developed an independent and highly influential Latin theology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251036
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025102-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025103-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Friedrich Loofs in Halle

Jörg Ulrich

Volume 114 in this series

Friedrich Loofs was professor of church history at the University of Halle from 1888 to 1927. Alongside his work as a scholar and teacher, he was very active as a pastor and in the political and social arena during these years. This book contains ten essays which illuminate the work of Loofs in the field of the history of dogma, his scholarly friendship with Harnack, his contributions to anniversary celebrations of the Reformation, his political commitment to Armenia, his work as university preacher and his honorary office as guardian of the poor in Halle. At the same time, using a prominent professor as example, the book illustrates the importance of a university and its members not only for the different disciplines but for the success and flourishing of a city and the surrounding region as a whole.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246353
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024634-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024635-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2010

Golgatha in den Konfessionen und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit

Johann Anselm Steiger, Ulrich Heinen

Volume 113 in this series

This volume contains studies on the interdisciplinary exploration of the intermedial interpretation of the New Testament narrative material concerning Golgotha in the Early Modern Age. Special consideration has been given to multifaceted aspects of the history of theology, exegesis, art, literature and music.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225587
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022557-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022558-7
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Theologie und Kirche im Horizont der Antike

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geschichte der Alten Kirche

Carl Andresen, Peter Gemeinhardt

Volume 112 in this series

Carl Andresen (1909–1985) posed questions of continuing relevance: what was the attitude of early Christianity to the intellectual history of antiquity, how did it categorize theology and philosophy with respect to each other, how did it defend the Bible’s claim to truth against concurrent systems of thought? This study provides an extensive and detailed reconstruction of the meeting of the world of antiquity and Christianity, including the history of their influences. Christianity proves to be an integral part of its world, whilst also influencing and transfiguring this environment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216448
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021642-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021644-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Die gedruckten griechischen Beichtbücher zur Zeit der Türkenherrschaft

Ihr kirchenpolitischer Entstehungszusammenhang und ihre Quellen

Vasileios Tsakiris

Volume 111 in this series

In this work, the printed Greek confession books are subjected to extensive analysis for the very first time. These books, which appeared at the beginning of the 17th century in the orthodox East, enjoyed unprecedented popularity in their time. Examining the history of the confession books, this work provides new and very interesting insights into both the significant conflict between the patriarch of Constantinople, Kyrillos Loukaris, and the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide, and the role of the protestant powers in this conflict. In addition, it also examines the role played by the confession books in the ambitions of influential Greeks in the Venetian occupied regions, to manipulate the development of church policies in the Orthodox East, in collaboration with Venice; for the most part, these ambitions, climaxing in an attempted union at the end of the 17th century unknown to research until now, are reconstructed here for the first time. Finally, this work demonstrates that, with one exception, the confession books printed in the 18th century were also printed for political purposes; in this case by the princes of Walachia and the emerging Kollyvades' reform movement.
Through new findings, which radically revise the knowledge accrued through previous research, this work makes an essential contribution to research on the history of Orthodoxy under Ottoman rule.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212853
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021284-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021285-3
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Gott in der Geschichte

Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Kirchengeschichte

Ekkehard Mühlenberg, Ute Mennecke, Stefanie Frost

Volume 110 in this series

This collected volume contains 25 essays by the Church historian Ekkehard Mühlenberg. They focus on the Age of Late Antiquity. The substantive focus is provided by discussions between philosophy and theology in the struggle for a comprehensive understanding of reality. A significant contribution to research is also provided by reflections on the methodology of Church history. The essays are presented under categories such as “What is Church History?”, “The Notion of God in Philosophy and Theology”, “The Language of Religious Experience and Leading a Christian Life”.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211252
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020553-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021125-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2009

Weichenstellungen der evangelischen Kirche im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Beiträge zur Kirchengeschichte und Kirchenordnung

Martin Hein

Volume 109 in this series

The papers collected in this volume view important moments of decision for the German Evangelical Church in the 19th and 20th centuries and illuminate their consequences for the formation of a popular church independent of the state. A main focus is on the period of the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 and the struggle between Church and State. A regional focus is placed on Hesse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110212730
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020530-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021273-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Christian Education
Subject:: Church Law
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Theologiae Facultas

Rahmenbedingungen, Akteure und Wissenschaftsorganisation protestantischer Universitätstheologie in Tübingen, Jena, Erlangen und Berlin 1850-1870

Johannes Wischmeyer

Volume 108 in this series

Protestant theologians played a significant role in the modernisation of academic scholarship at 19th century German universities. This comparative study of four important German faculties shows how publication, teaching and academic careers became professionalised. Although conflicts between church hierarchies and academic theology reached a climax in the years between 1850 and 1870, and massive pressure was brought to bear from outside on university appointments, Protestant Theology developed into a modern academic discipline during the period under review.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209860
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020247-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020986-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Theories, Methods, and Auxiliary Sciences
Subject:: Theory
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Die Welt als Bild

Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Visualität von Weltbildern

Christoph Markschies, Johannes Zachhuber

Volume 107 in this series

The volume is devoted to the question of the pictoriality of world views. Representatives from a variety of disciplines (theology, art history, astrophysics, history of science, philosophy) come together to resume the study of world pictures as a historico-cultural phenomenon against the horizon of current discussions on the visuality of perceptions of the world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209808
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020029-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020980-8
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Ibas von Edessa

Rekonstruktion einer Biographie und dogmatischen Position zwischen den Fronten

Claudia Rammelt

Volume 106 in this series

With his letter to the Persian Mari, Ibas of Edessa († 457) got caught up between the millstones of the different dogmatic positions in the 5th century Christological conflict. This monograph on the Bishop of Edessa creates a vivid picture of a neglected chapter in church history and the history of dogma. In a unique manner, it combines regional aspects with the history of ideas in the Eastern Mediterranean. The resultant picture of Ibas invites a reassessment of traditional prejudices in the ecumenical discussion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110206739
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020218-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020673-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Chrysostomosbilder in 1600 Jahren

Facetten der Wirkungsgeschichte eines Kirchenvaters

Martin Wallraff, Rudolf Brändle

Volume 105 in this series

The Church Father John Chrysostom died 1600 years ago. Hardly any Christian from Antiquity has done more to form the identity of the most varied church traditions right up to the present day. While Protestants honour him as a preacher (hence the honorific Chrysostomos‑ “Golden-mouthed”), the Orthodox Churches know him as the progenitor of their Sunday liturgy (Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom). The volume provides an insight into the many facets of the history of this figure's influence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207309
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019824-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020730-9
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: History of Research
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Archäologie der Reformation

Studien zu den Auswirkungen des Konfessionswechsels auf die materielle Kultur

Carola Jäggi, Jörn Staecker

Volume 104 in this series

The volume addresses the question of the effect the Reformation had on everyday culture, how the people of the 16th century reacted to this revolutionary event and how it shaped their environment – in both the profane and the sacred spheres – to meet the new demands placed on them. This is the first time that German researchers on the Reformation have exploited objects from material culture as a source in their own right for work on the history and after-effects of the Reformation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920444
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019513-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092044-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Hugo Grotius

Ein christlicher Humanist in politischer Verantwortung

Florian Mühlegger

Volume 103 in this series

This thesis presented to the University of Munich uses early theological, legal and political writings by Hugo Grotius to determine his political position and the argumentative strategies he deployed in the Arminianic controversy and the political conflicts at the beginning of the 17th century. Particular value is attached to a reading of Grotius’ statements in the context of contemporary politics. As a Christian humanist, he moderated the various points at issue and appealed to the warring factions to exercise tolerance and seek reconciliation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110894134
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019956-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089413-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Law
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Church Law
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Johann Gottfried Herder - der Theologe unter den Klassikern

Das Amt des Generalsuperintendenten von Sachsen-Weimar

Martin Keßler

Volume 102 in this series

This study in church history examines Herder’s ecclesiastical ministry in Saxon-Weimar (1776-1803). Thematically it follows on from Haym’s biography (1880/85), but instead of subordinating Herder’s official activities to the history of his life and work it presents the first comprehensive account of his official functions on the basis of their institutional and structural constants. Apart from staffing decisions and draft concepts for his three central fields of activity (church, school and university), his ministry is outlined using new archive material.

This study was awarded the Hans Lilje Prize by the Göttingen Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918182
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019152-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091818-2
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Enlightenment and German Idealism
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Isaaks Opferung (Gen 22) in den Konfessionen und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit

Johann Anselm Steiger, Ulrich Heinen

Volume 101 in this series

“The sacrificing of Isaac” (Genesis 22) was subjected to intensive interpretation by the various religious denominations in the early modern age. The contributors to this volume are historians from the fields of exegesis, art, literature and music; they focus on the wide variety of texts and media genres in which the story is represented (commentary, disputation, sermon, theatrical play, devotional guide, meditation landscape, altar tableau, sacred poem inter alia) and demonstrate what part the stage, painting, sculpture and sacred music played in the interpretation of the biblical text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200850
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019117-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020085-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Ecclesia est in re publica

Studien zur Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte im Kontext des Imperium Romanum

Hanns Christof Brennecke, Uta Heil, Annette von Stockhausen, Jörg Ulrich

Volume 100 in this series

This collected volume contains thirteen papers by Hanns Christof Brennecke demonstrating how Christianity in the Imperial Age and Late Antiquity is embedded in the context of the Imperium Romanum. The topics range from the early conflicts between Christianity and the pagan world to questions of Trinitarian theology and Christology and on to analyses of Syrian monasticism. With their detailed analyses of the sources, these papers have had a lasting influence on research in the field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200782
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019947-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020078-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2007

Albrecht Ritschl: Vorlesung "Theologische Ethik"

Auf Grund des eigenhändigen Manuskripts

Rolf Schäfer

Volume 99 in this series

This first published edition of his lectures on ethics reflects the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889) at a time when he advanced to become the most significant Protestant theologian in Germany with his major work "Rechtfertigung und Versöhnung" (Justification and Reconciliation) (1870 - 74). It demonstrates the impulses emanating from Ritschl's work which influenced and continue to influence systematic theology, church history and the 20th century ecumenical movement.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200928
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019004-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020092-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Milton's Theology of Freedom

Benjamin Myers

Volume 98 in this series

At the centre of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a radical commitment to divine and human freedom. This study situates Paradise Lost within the context of post-Reformation theological controversy, and pursues the theological portrayal of freedom as it unfolds throughout the poem. The study identifies and explores the ways in which Milton is both continuous and discontinuous with the major post-Reformation traditions in his depiction of predestination, creation, free will, sin, and conversion. Milton’s deep commitment to freedom is shown to underlie his appropriation and creative transformation of a wide range of existing theological concepts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919370
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018938-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091937-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Lexikonpolitik

Die erste Auflage der RGG im Horizont protestantischer Lexikographie

Ruth Conrad

Volume 97 in this series

“Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart” (RGG) (Religion in Past and Present ), and its first edition in particular, achieved a significant position in the history of theology like no other encyclopaedia. On the one hand, it lent expression to the dominant theological trends of its time, while on the other it provided theological impulses of its own.This study recreates the importance of the RGG for the history and politics of theology in the context of the publishing history of Protestant lexicography. Lexico-political issues are discussed with regard to aspects of academic, theological, educational and publishing policies.The study closes a gap in the research, as theological encyclopaedias have hitherto been seen as a neglected field of research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918236
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018914-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091823-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: History and Theory of Practical Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2006

Religion und Disziplin

Selbstdeutung und Weltordnung im frühen deutschen Franziskanertum

Thomas Ertl

Volume 96 in this series

This monograph takes the example of the German Franciscans to examine the role of mendicant friars in social change in the late Middle Ages.

In the later Middle Ages, the mendicant friars strove to regulate a society in a process of radical change. This happened through a combination of apparently contradictory developments – the Christianisation of individual liberties on the one hand, and the simultaneous establishment of new control mechanisms on the other. The work of the early German Franciscans presented here exemplifies the dialectics of social diversification processes that shaped Europe in the Middle Ages and later.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200812
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018544-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020081-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

500 Jahre Theologie in Hamburg

Hamburg als Zentrum christlicher Theologie und Kultur zwischen Tradition und Zukunft. Mit einem Verzeichnis sämtlicher Promotionen der Theologischen Fakultät Hamburg

Johann Anselm Steiger

Volume 95 in this series

This essay collection presents a multi-facetted overview of five centuries of cultural history and the history of Christianity in Hamburg; at the same time, it places local historical aspects in the wider context of overall developments in the history of ideas.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199635
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018529-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019963-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

The Doctrine of Salvation in the Sermons of Richard Hooker

Corneliu C. Simut

Volume 94 in this series

This specialist work in historical theology deals with the doctrine of salvation in the early theology of Richard Hooker (1554-1600) from the perspective of the concept of faith and with Hooker’s connections to the early English Reformers (W. Tyndale, J. Frith, R. Barnes, T. Cranmer, J. Bradford and J. Foxe) in crucial teachings such as justification, sanctification, glorification, election, reprobation, the sovereignty of God, and salvation of Catholics. The study proves that Hooker’s theology is firstly Protestant (to counter the views which picture it as Catholic) and secondly Calvinist.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927467
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018498-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092746-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Christus, Kosmos, Diatribe

Themen der frühen Kirche als Beiträge zu einer historischen Theologie

Karl-Heinz Uthemann

Volume 93 in this series

This volume of essays identifies Christology, cosmography and diatribe as three important topics in the "Early Church", i.e. the Roman Church as it developed after the Council of Nicea (325 AD).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110891546
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018428-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089154-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Johann Gottfried Herder

Aspekte seines Lebenswerks

Martin Keßler, Volker Leppin

Volume 92 in this series

An interdisciplinary collection of papers (from German Studies, History, Education, Philosophy, Romance Studies, Theology) concentrating on Herder’s theological works. The topics covered range from Herder’s exegetical work to the issue of pantheism and his activities in the church and school life of Weimar.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110909951
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018427-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090995-1
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 18th and 19th Century Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: History and Theory of Practical Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Aus der Werkstatt Harnacks

Transkription Harnackscher Seminarprotokolle Hans von Sodens (Sommersemester 1904 – Wintersemester 1905/06)

Adolf von Harnack, Wolfgang Wischmeyer

Volume 91 in this series

Only recently three notebooks by Hans von Soden (1881-1945) were found in which he recorded four seminars Adolf Harnack taught between the summer of 1904 and early 1906. The seminars were devoted to the following subjects: Justin's Apologies, Gnosticism, Augustin's Confessions (Books 1 to 6), and the Works of Sulpicius Severus. These records with their detailed accounts provide a precise insight not only into patristic research a hundred years ago, but also into the teaching in a department of the Berlin University at that time. Harnack's scholarly interests in the very varied patristic topics from the 1st to 5th centuries are clearly expressed, as too is his strong theological interest in education, which becomes apparent through his polemics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890310
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018128-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089031-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: History of Research
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2005

Oikonomia

Der Gebrauch des Wortes Oikonomia im Neuen Testament, bei den Kirchenvätern und in der theologischen Literatur bis ins 20. Jahrhundert

Gerhard Richter

Volume 90 in this series

In theological literature, the colloquial Greek term oikonomia has several meanings, and only becomes a theological concept through its context. In the New Testament, it signifies God’s rule, but it is not originally connected with the notion of salvation. The internal relationship of the Trinity can be signified with oikonomia, as can the union of two natures in Christ. In the Eastern Church, oikonomia is part of the features of ecclesiastical praxis and finds its way into the Byzantine notion of law. It is also of significance for ecumenical efforts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110891225
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016728-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089122-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Die Erscheinungsform des Christentums

Zur ästhetischen Neugestaltung der Religionstheologie bei Herder, Wackenroder und De Wette

Markus Buntfuß

Volume 89 in this series

Working from the thesis that the essence of Christianity cannot be understood without its historical and cultural manifestations, the author proceeds to examine the interrelationships between Protestant theology and aesthetics in their threefold significance as theories of the sensory perception, of beauty and art. Using Herder, Wackenroder and De Wette as exemplars, he sketches a modernisation programme for the theory of culture and of religion that places culture within an embracing world of meaning and the Christian religion within a concrete horizon of experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110903683
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018079-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090368-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

The Quest for the Phoenix

Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622)

Hereward Tilton

Volume 88 in this series

The author presents with this intellectual biography of the Lutheran alchemist Count Michael Maier an academic study of western esotericism in general and to the study of alchemy and rosicrucianism in particular.

The author charts the development of Maier's Hermetic worldview in the context of his service at the courts of Emperor Rudolf II and Moritz of Hessen-Kassel. The problem of the nature of early Rosicrucianism is addressed in detail with reference to Maier's role in the promotion of this "serious jest" in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The work is set in the context of ongoing debates concerning the nature of early modern alchemy and its role in the history of Western esotericism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110896572
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017637-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089657-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Church as Politeia

The Political Self-Understanding of Christianity. Proceedings of a Becket Institute Conference at the University of Oxford, 28 September –1 October 2000

Christoph Stumpf, Holger Zaborowski

Volume 87 in this series

The volume Church as Politeia comprises fifteen papers which were presented at a German-British Research Colloquium of the Becket Institute in Oxford. In these papers the political self-understanding of Christianity is analyzed in its historical development from various denominational perspectives. The authors of these contributions are theologians, lawyers, philosophers and historians from Germany and Great Britain.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110899900
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017606-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089990-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Biblische Aufklärung

Biographie und Theologie der Berliner Hofprediger August Friedrich Wilhelm Sack (1703-1786) und Friedrich Samuel Gottfried Sack (1738-1817)

Mark Pockrandt

Volume 86 in this series

With this comprehensive study, the author presents an important contribution to research into the theological enlightenment in Germany, with particular reference to neology. He examines the biographies and theology of the two Court Preachers Sack against the background of the controversies surrounding Christianity (vs. La Mettrie), the Eucharist (vs. E. C. Koch; controversy about C. A. Heumann), tolerance (vs. J. M. Goeze), heterodoxy (vs. C. F. Bahrdt), orthodoxy (vs. J. C. Wöllner), Spinozism (vs. Schleiermacher) and the union of Lutherans and Reformed Protestants.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110908206
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017836-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090820-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2004

Öffentlichkeit und Bürgergesellschaft

Friedrich Schleiermachers politische Wirksamkeit. Schleiermacher-Studien. Band 1

Matthias Wolfes

Volume 85/1+2 in this series

This study deals with Schleiermacher’s political activity during all phases of his life and work. Using a broad range of sources, some of them new, it examines his political sermons, his activity in educational and university politics, his theoretical notions of the state, his collaboration in political journalistic activity within the Prussian Reform Party (Der Preußische Correspondent) and his judgement on Judaism and Jewish culture. Schleiermacher presents himself as a programmatic supporter of a liberal civil society formed by citizens.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110908145
ISBN:: 9783110175790
ISBN:: 9783110908145
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Schleiermacher
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Die maskierte Theologie von Pierre Bayle

Nicola Stricker

Volume 84 in this series

Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) was considered an unbeliever and a skeptic during his own lifetime. However, the work of this Rotterdam philosopher reveals a theologian who saw the retreat of theology from philosophy that had failed at the metaphysical realm as a strength of theology, not a defeat. This basic idea occupies a hitherto unrecognized position in Bayle's work, and it provides the background for this study's exploration of Bayle's theological and ethical thinking.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901610
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017747-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090161-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2003

Savonarola als Apologet

Der Versuch einer empirischen Begründung des christlichen Glaubens in der Zeit der Renaissance

Joachim Weinhardt

Volume 83 in this series

Savonarola (1452-1498) saw it as his highest priority to substantiate Christianity's claim to truth, an aspect that has hitherto found scant attention. Although in his youth he had himself been tempted to exchange Catholic Christianity for a neo-Epicurean view of the world, he spent his whole life seeking arguments for the truth of the faith. Following from Aristotelian empiricism and the lines of scientific enquiry, he attempts at an inductive proof for the truth of Christianity with the argument that the observation of Christians' ethical conduct and the causal analysis of these perceptual data allows one to conclude that the faith motivating such behaviour is true.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110896404
ISBN:: 9783110175226
ISBN:: 9783110896404
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Die Filioque-Kontroverse zwischen Ost- und Westkirche im Frühmittelalter

Peter Gemeinhardt

Volume 82 in this series

The hotly debated ecumenical and theological issue of whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone or from the Son as well as the Father (ex patre filioque) is analyzed in light of ecclesiastical history and the history of Christian doctrine. Starting from the varied reception of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed in the Latin-speaking area, the author inquires into the origins of the filioque controversy between the eighth and the twelfth centuries. The pneumatological and confessional differences and the basic political and ecclesiastical framework involved are described. The dispute over the filioque clause proves to be a key to a theological divergence between the Greek East and the Latin West, a movement whose origins lay in the fundamental theological decisions about the Trinity in the fourth century. The filioque issue thus cannot be "solved" by deleting a word but only by ensuring dialogue between two irreducible manifestations of the Trinitarian dogma.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110896626
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017491-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089662-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Der fürsorgende Gott

Der Begriff der PRONOIA Gottes in der apologetischen Literatur der Alten Kirche

Silke-Petra Bergjan

Volume 81 in this series

This study in the history of concepts is dedicated to the discussion in late Classical Antiquity between Christians and their contemporaries on Divine Providence (Pronoia).

The conviction that God was concerned for the world was generally current at the time. Controversy in the philosophical discussions of the 2nd and 3rd centuries revolved around the question of how God's activity should be seen - as a general pattern of sense, as good order or as individual care.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110905717
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017062-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090571-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2001

Verborgene Weisheit

Johann Arndts "Vier Bücher vom Wahren Christentum" als Programm einer spiritualistisch-hermetischen Theologie

Hermann Geyer

Volume 80/1–3 in this series

Among the works of Johann Arndt, the well-known Vier Bücher vom wahren Christentum had the most impact among readers. Following the history of tradition and the history of motifs, this interpretation focuses on the context of early modern spiritualist and hermetical thought. Arndt´s distinctive theological demand in the sense of a mystical spiritualism as a specific type of early modern "theologia mystica" is depicted in part I, his program of an imagery of books, which is rooted in early modern spiritualism and Hermetic scriptures in part II. In part III the author connects Arndt's "theologia naturalis" (in liber naturae, book IV), which is influenced by theosophical thought, with his "theology of heart" (books I-III).

Three appendixes on Arndt's controversial "esoteric" writings, on traces of his reception in the history of alchemy as well as on numerous representatives of the "magia naturalis" complete the volume.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863406
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017056-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086340-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Der Passauer Vertrag (1552)

Einleitung und Edition

Volker Henning Drecoll

Volume 79 in this series

An edition of the Treaty of Passau (1552) as well as of important protocols of negotiations, together with an extensive introduction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816624
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016697-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081662-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Heilsgeschichte und Liturgie

Studien zum Verhältnis von Heilsgeschichte und Heilsteilhabe anhand liturgischer und katechetischer Quellen des dritten und vierten Jahrhunderts

Wenrich Slenczka

Volume 78 in this series

Events from the history of redemption as reflected in baptism and the Lord’s Supper in the early church. A systematic investigation of the Traditio Apostolica, the Euchologion of Serapion of Thmuis, the catecheses of Cyrill and John of Jerusalem, Ambrosius, John Chrysostom, Theodor of Mopsuestia and others.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810080
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016494-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081008-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Liturgical Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Vom Werden eines Heiligen

Eine Untersuchung der Vita Corbiniani des Bischofs Arbeo von Freising

Lothar Vogel

Volume 77 in this series

In the Vita Corbiniani Bishop Arbeo of Freising (ca. 763-764 to 783-784 CE) wrote a description of the life of Saint Corbinian. This early medieval life of a saint is the object of the present historical analysis. The author describes the changes in the perception of Corbinian from the beginning of his being revered up to the history of research on him. Afterwards he develops from the Vita Corbiniani with the aid of the form-critical method, a modified view of the historical figure Corbinian and his development into a saint. Connected to this is the opening-up of a new perspective on Bavarian church history in the early 8th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110816617
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016696-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081661-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Die Memorien für Petrus und Paulus in Rom

Die archäologischen Denkmäler und die literarische Tradition

Hans Georg Thümmel

Volume 76 in this series

The author here examines the memoriae, the monuments in memory, of the “apostolic princes” Peter and Paul as they are found in Rome in archaeological monuments and in literary tradition. In this connection various archaeological excavation reports are presented and critically analyzed. At the center lie the excavations under S. Sebastiano which have proceeded since 1915, and those under S. Pietro since 1939, which have been of worldwide interest yet at the same time have left many unclarities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110815238
ISBN:: 9783110166422
ISBN:: 9783110815238
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2000

Ostensio reliquiarum

Untersuchungen über Entstehung, Ausbreitung, Gestalt und Funktion der Heiltumsweisungen im römisch-deutschen Regnum

Hartmut Kühne

Volume 75 in this series

The object analyzed here is the custom of the festival of relics (ostensio reliquiarum), at which the relics of a church were publicly displayed. On the basis of an examination of 24 late medieval relic festivals in the Roman-German regnum, the liturgical-ceremonial patterns of these festivals and their functions are presented, especially in the area of the system of indulgences and the representation of governing (especially the formation of residences).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804942
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016569-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080494-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Tauffragen und Bekenntnis

Studien zur sogenannten "Traditio Apostolica", zu den "Interrogationes de fide" und zum "Römischen Glaubensbekenntnis"

Wolfram Kinzig, Christoph Markschies, Markus Vinzent

Volume 74 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810936
ISBN:: 9783110163025
ISBN:: 9783110810936
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Dogmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Theologie als christliche Philosophie

Zur Bedeutung der biblischen Botschaft im Denken des Clemens von Alexandria

Ulrich Schneider

Volume 73 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800241
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015904-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080024-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Vestigia Verbi

Aufsätze zur Geschichte der evangelischen Theologie

Joachim Mehlhausen

Volume 72 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813012
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015053-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081301-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Patristica

Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Alten Kirche

Friedrich Loofs, Hanns Christof Brennecke, Jörg Ulrich

Volume 71 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806021
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015763-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080602-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Lissabons Fall - Europas Schrecken

Die Deutung des Erdbebens von Lissabon im deutschsprachigen Protestantismus des 18. Jahrhunderts

Ulrich Löffler

Volume 70 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110801880
ISBN:: 9783110801880
ISBN:: 9783110158168
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Die Erlösungslehre Marsilio Ficinos

Theologiegeschichtliche Aspekte des Renaissanceplatonismus

Jörg Lauster

Volume 69 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802924
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015713-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080292-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Glück als Vollendung des Menschseins

Die beatitudo-Lehre des Thomas von Aquin im Horizont des Eudämonismus-Problems

Rochus Leonhardt

Volume 68 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110815108
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015691-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081510-8
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1998

Kanon ekklesiastikos

Die Bedeutung des altkirchlichen Kanonbegriffs

Heinz Ohme

Volume 67 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110809671
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015189-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080967-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1997

Karl Ludwig Schmidt

"Und Wissenschaft ist Leben"

Andreas Mühling

Volume 66 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110817164
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015442-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081716-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

Ethik im frühen Calvinismus

Humanistische Einflüsse, philosophische, juristische und theologische Argumentationen sowie mentalitätsgeschichtliche Aspekte am Beispiel des Calvin-Schülers Lambertus Danaeus

Christoph Strohm

Volume 65 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823653
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015061-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082365-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1996

Schwellenzeit

Beiträge zur Geschichte des Christentums in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter

Knut Schäferdiek, Winrich A. Löhr, Hanns Christof Brennecke

Volume 64 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110815832
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014968-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081583-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1995

Ernst von Dryander

Eine biographische Studie

Bernd Andresen

Volume 63 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110907667
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014814-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090766-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1993

Ferdinand Christian Baur als Prediger

Exemplarische Interpretationen zu seinem handschriftlichen Predigtnachlaß

Christian Andrae

Volume 61 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110864618
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013920-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086461-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: History and Theory of Practical Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Theodoret von Cyrus und der Neunizänismus

Aspekte der Altkirchlichen Trinitätslehre

Silke-Petra Bergjan

Volume 60 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110883770
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013955-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088377-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Die Theologie des Markell von Ankyra

Klaus Seibt

Volume 59 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879636
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014027-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087963-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1992

Konstantin und Christus

Die Verchristlichung der imperialen Repräsentation unter Konstantin dem Großen als Spiegel seiner Kirchenpolitik und seines Selbstverständnisses als christlicher Kaiser

Rudolf Leeb

Volume 58 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110855555
ISBN:: 9783110855555
ISBN:: 9783110135442
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1992

Die Konfessionsbildung des 16. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel illustrierter Flugblätter

Harry Oelke

Volume 57 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110858693
ISBN:: 9783110129120
ISBN:: 9783110858693
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1990

Das Concilium Quinisextum und seine Bischofsliste

Studien zum Konstantinopeler Konzil von 692

Heinz Ohme

Volume 56 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863321
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012432-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086332-1
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 1984

Die Deutung der Göttlichen Liturgie in der russischen Theologie

Wege und Wandlungen russischer Liturgie-Auslegung

Karl Christian Felmy

Volume 54 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110871449
ISBN:: 9783110871449
ISBN:: 9783110089608
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1983

Die christliche Platonaneignung in den Stromateis des Clemens von Alexandrien

Dietmar Wyrwa

Volume 53 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110856187
ISBN:: 978-3-11-008903-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085618-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1983

Evangelienharmonien im Reformationszeitalter

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Darstellungen

Dietrich Wünsch

Volume 52 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110844665
ISBN:: 9783110844665
ISBN:: 9783110086003
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1981

Europäisches Waldensertum im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert

Gemeinschaftsform - Frömmigkeit - Sozialer Hintergrund

Martin Schneider

Volume 51 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838145
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007898-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083814-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Germany
Subject:: General German History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1980

Text - Wort - Glaube

Studien zur Überlieferung, Interpretation und Autorisierung biblischer Texte

Martin Brecht

Volume 50 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110860603
ISBN:: 9783110860603
ISBN:: 9783110073188
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1980

Humanismus und Konfession

Theobald Billican, Leben und Werk

Gerhard Simon

Volume 49 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110862225
ISBN:: 9783110862225
ISBN:: 9783110078626
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1978

Schöpfung aus dem Nichts

Die Entstehung der Lehre von der creatio ex nihilo

Gerhard May

Volume 48 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110853896
ISBN:: 978-3-11-007204-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085389-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Dogmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1976

Der Konziliarismus als Problem der neueren katholischen Theologie

Die Geschichte der Auslegung der Konstanzer Dekrete von Febronius bis zur Gegenwart

Hans Schneider

Volume 47 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110839616
ISBN:: 978-3-11-005744-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083961-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Modern Church History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1974

Christliche Theologie und Philologie in der Spätantike

Die schulwissenschaftlichen Methoden der Psalmenexegese Cassiodors

Reinhard Schlieben

Volume 46 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110830521
ISBN:: 9783110830521
ISBN:: 9783110046342
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1974

Tentatio et consolatio

Studien zu Bugenhagens “Interpretatio in Librum Psalmorum”

Hans Hermann Holfelder

Volume 45 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110845150
ISBN:: 9783110845150
ISBN:: 9783110043273
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1973

Osiander in Preußen

1549 – 1552

Martin Stupperich

Volume 44 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110836356
ISBN:: 978-3-11-004221-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083635-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1973

Spiritualistische Tradition im Protestantismus

Die Geschichte des Schwenckfeldertums in Schlesien

Horst Weigelt

Volume 43 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110829495
ISBN:: 978-3-11-003581-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082949-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Early Modern Times
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1968

Vorgeschichte der reformatorischen Bußtheologie

Reinhard Schwarz

Volume 41 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110821727
ISBN:: 9783110821727
ISBN:: 9783110012415
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1968

Die Theologie Karl Holls im Spiegel des antiken und reformatorischen Christentums

Walter Bodenstein

Volume 40 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110821703
ISBN:: 9783110821703
ISBN:: 9783110012392
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1967

Die Kirche in den Reichen der Westgoten und Suewen bis zur Errichtung der westgotischen katholischen Staatskirche

Knut Schäferdiek

Volume 39 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110821697
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001238-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082169-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1966

Geist und Geschichte der Reformation

Festgabe Hanns Rückert zum 65. Geburtstag dargebracht von Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern

Kurt Aland, Walther Eltester, Heinz Liebing, Klaus Scholder

Volume 38 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823318
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001236-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082331-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1966

Wyclifs Bibelkommentar

Gustav Adolf Benrath

Volume 36 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823301
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001235-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082330-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1963

Luthers Auslegungen des Galaterbriefes von 1519 und 1531

Karin Bornkamm

Volume 35 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110822328
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001234-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082232-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1960

Dionysius Exiguus-Studien

Neue Wege der philologischen und historischen Text- und Quellenkritik

Wilhelm M. Peitz, Hans Foerster

Volume 33 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110822298
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001231-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082229-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1958

Amerika und die Orientalischen Kirchen

Ursprung und Anfang der amerikanischen Mission unter den Nationalkirchen Westasiens

Peter Kawerau

Volume 31 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110833959
ISBN:: 9783110833959
ISBN:: 9783110031478
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1955

Logos und Nomos

Die Polemik des Kelsos wider das Christentum

Carl Andresen

Volume 30 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110833942
ISBN:: 978-3-11-003146-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083394-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1971

Luther und Müntzer

Ihre Auseinandersetzung über Obrigkeit und Widerstandsrecht

Volume 29 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110822311
ISBN:: 9783110822311
ISBN:: 9783110012330
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1952

Luther und Müntzer

Ihre Auseinandersetzung über Obrigkeit und Widerstandsrecht

Carl Hinrichs

Volume 29 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323923
ISBN:: 9783111323923
ISBN:: 9783110981735
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1943

Spener-Studien

Kurt Aland

Volume 28 in this series

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Book 1940

Unbekannte Fragmente aus Luthers zweiter Psalmenvorlesung 1518

Martin Luther, Erich Vogelsang

Volume 27 in this series

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Book 1938

Drei Markus-Evangelien

Rudolf Thiel

Volume 26 in this series

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Book 1937

Virgo Eva - Virgo Maria

Neue Untersuchungen über die Lehre von der Jungfrauschaft und der Ehe Mariens in der ältesten Kirche

Hugo Koch

Volume 25 in this series

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Book 1935

Gottfried Daniel Krummacher und die niederrheinische Erweckungsbewegung zu Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts

Friedrich-Wilhelm Krummacher

Volume 24 in this series

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Book 1935

Untersuchungen zur Überlieferung der Schriften des Athanasius

Hans-Georg Opitz

Volume 23 in this series

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Book 1932

Pronoia und Paideusis

Studien über Origines und sein Verhältnis zum Platonismus

Hal Koch

Volume 22 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111685489
ISBN:: 9783111685489
ISBN:: 9783111298320
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Medieval Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Print Only 1932

Der angefochtene Christus bei Luther

Erich Vogelsang

Volume 21 in this series

ISBN:: 9783110981674
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1932

Einheit und Heiligkeit der Kirche

Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung des altchristlichen Kirchenbegriffs im Abendland von Tertullian bis zu den antidonatistischen Schriften Augustins

Erich Altendorf

Volume 20 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323862
ISBN:: 9783111323862
ISBN:: 9783110981667
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1931

Teil 1 Zur neutestamentlichen Textkritik

Adolf Harnack, Hans Lietzmann

Part of the multi-volume work Studien zur Geschichte des Neuen Testaments und der alten Kirche

Volume 19 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323855
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098165-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132385-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1931

Die Predigt Calvins, ihre Geschichte, ihre Form und ihre religiösen Grundgedanken

Erwin Mülhaupt

Volume 18 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111491189
ISBN:: 9783111491189
ISBN:: 9783111124728
Subject:: General Interest
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1930

Luthers Hebräerbrief-Vorlesung von 1517/18

Martin Luther, Erich Vogelsang

Volume 17 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323848
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098164-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132384-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1931

Die Canonessammlung des Dionysius Exiguus in der ersten Redaktion

Dionysius, Adolf Strewe

Volume 16 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323831
ISBN:: 9783111323831
ISBN:: 9783110981636
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1929

Die Anfänge von Luthers Christologie nach der ersten Psalmenvorlesung

Insbesondere in ihren exegetischen und systematischen Zusammenhängen mit Augustin und der Scholastik dargestellt

Erich Vogelsang

Volume 15 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111628554
ISBN:: 9783111628554
ISBN:: 9783111250175
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1929

Die Mystik des Marsilio Ficino

Walter Dress

Volume 14 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111665092
ISBN:: 9783111665092
ISBN:: 9783111280400
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1929

Ambrosius von Mailand als Kirchenpolitiker

Hans Campenhausen

Volume 12 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111642352
ISBN:: 978-3-11-125950-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-164235-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1929

Eusebius als Historiker seiner Zeit

Richard Laqueur

Volume 11 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323817
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098161-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132381-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Ahead of Publication 1987

Landesherrschaft und Reformation

Günther Wartenberg

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783112581025
ISBN:: 9783112581025
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Christianity
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1928

Das Reich Gottes auf Erden

Utopie und Wirklichkeit. Eine Untersuchung zu Butzers “De Regno Christi” und zur englischen Staatskirche des 16. Jahrhunderts

Wilhelm Pauck

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323800
ISBN:: 9783111323800
ISBN:: 9783110981605
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1928

Oliver Cromwell

Seine Religion und seine Sendung

Helmuth Kittel

Volume 9 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111624655
ISBN:: 9783111624655
ISBN:: 9783111247076
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1967

Messe und Herrenmahl

Eine Studie zur Geschichte der Liturgie

Hans Lietzmann

Volume 8 in this series

“A standard work, highly regarded and still used by liturgists.”
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christoph Markschies

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110821680
ISBN:: 978-3-11-001237-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082168-0
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Liturgical Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1926

Messe und Herrenmahl

Eine Studie zur Geschichte der Liturgie

Hans Lietzmann

Volume 8 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111324012
ISBN:: 9783111324012
ISBN:: 9783110981827
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1926

Karl Holl

Zwei Gedächtnisreden

Adolf Harnack, Hans Lietzmann

Volume 7 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111324005
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098181-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132400-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1926

Die theologische Entwicklung Gasparo Contarinis

Hanns Rückert

Volume 6 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111661537
ISBN:: 9783111661537
ISBN:: 9783111277172
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1926

Die Religion Michelangelos

Hermann Wolfgang Beyer

Volume 5 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323992
ISBN:: 9783111323992
ISBN:: 9783110981803
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1926

Cyprianische Untersuchungen

Hugo Koch

Volume 4 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323985
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098179-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132398-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1925

Die Rechtfertigungslehre auf dem Tridentinischen Konzil

Hanns Rückert

Volume 3 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111670706
ISBN:: 9783111670706
ISBN:: 9783111286037
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1925

Luther und Böhme

Heinrich Bornkamm

Volume 2 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111588957
ISBN:: 978-3-11-121528-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-158895-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1927

Petrus und Paulus in Rom

Liturgische und archäologische Studien

Hans Lietzmann

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323787
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098158-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132378-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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