Theologie in gefährdeter Zeit
Theologie in gefährdeter Zeit

Author: Hans-Gerd Janßen

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2018-12

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 3643141068

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Johann Baptist Metz (* 5. August 1928) hat seine Theologie im intensiven Austausch mit Philosophie, Geschichte, Rechts-, Politik- und Sozialtheorie, Jüdischem Denken und Welt-Literatur & Kunst gewonnen und entfaltet – und so nicht nur in der theologischen Diskussion prägende Spuren hinterlassen. Seine Gottesrede lässt sich nicht aus den Katastrophen in Geschichte und Gesellschaft herauslösen, sondern bleibt im Kern herausgefordert angesichts der weltweit steigenden Gefährdungen: interkulturell, sozial, politisch, ökonomisch, ökologisch …! Dieser Band führt 150 kompakte Stellungnahmen zusammen, die Zeit-Zeichen setzen: die Beiträger_innen loten aus, in wieweit sie der Neuen Politischen Theologie und J.B. Metz als Person prägende Inspirationen und bleibende Impulse für ihre eigene Sicht auf Philosophie, Theologie, Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Recht, Politik, Bildung und Kunst verdanken: eine ungewöhnliche Festschrift voller Überraschungen und weiterführender Anstöße.

Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity
Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity

Author: LIT Verlag

Publisher: LIT Verlag

Published: 2023-01-05

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 3643965001

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A resilience theory on religion needs to answer four questions. What defines the kind of adversity which is addressed in religion? What is characteristic for processes of resilience in religion? What defines resilient religion as outcome? Which logic of inference (epistemology) based on our beliefs and experiences about reality binds these three elements together? The book starts with mapping the field of resilience theory on religion by addressing all four questions. The need for thinking about Christian resilience and the God symbol is addressed, and the need to be "explicitly contextual" with regard to resilience in South Africa. Next three types practices of religious acting are related to experiences of resilience, namely preaching, narrating and discerning. In the last chapters the focus is on the way stories help to express feelings of experiences of crises, tragedy, and trauma. But also how stories can help heal the broken heart. Prof Chris A.M. Hermans is extraordinary professor in practical theology and missiology at the University of the Free State (South Africa). He is emeritus professor in pastoral theology at Radboud University (the Netherlands).and emeritus professor in empirical study of religion as Radboud University (the Netherlands). Prof. Kobus (W.J.) Schoeman is professor of practical theology at the University of the Free State (South Africa).

Religion, Christian Faith, and Secular World
Religion, Christian Faith, and Secular World

Author: Hans Bringeland

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2021-01-25

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 3643911394

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What has been the role and understanding of religion in the last hundred years, and what can be the meaning of religion today? There is a well-known ongoing process of secularization in the Western world. Is there also a return of religion? And what does the fate of religion mean for an understanding of the Christian faith? These are topics of this book. The articles originate from the actual fields of research of an interdisciplinary group of scholars, who took part in a symposium held in Bergen Nov. 2019. The contributions relate to specific contexts in the modern history of religion from the perspective of religious studies, theology, philosophy and sociology.

Sisters of the Holy Cross, Menzingen 1844-1863
Sisters of the Holy Cross, Menzingen 1844-1863

Author: Mary Finbarr Coffey

Publisher: LIT Verlag

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 3643964684

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While building on a comprehensive reading of available archival sources in the Menzingen Religious Institute, this work provides a greater understanding of the possibilities and the difficulties of a return textit{ad fontes} in the Church and in religious life. It discloses that a struggle for a founding inspiration is a struggle for the memory. The theoretical framework which has been constructed from scriptural sources in this study, is likely to be of use in a theological interpretation of any Christian founding event. Sr. M. Finbarr Coffey is a teacher in Philosophy and Ethics at the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, London. She is also the author of: The Question of Relativism: an Essay in Epistemology. New Millennium, London, 2016.

Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies
Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies

Author: LIT Verlag

Publisher: LIT Verlag

Published: 2022-11-21

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 3643964625

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Analecta Bruxellensia has been since 1996 the annual review of the Protestant Faculties of Theology and Religious Studies (FUTP (French) and FPTR (Dutch)) in Brussels. Analecta 21 is a varied number. Three themes are developed covering exegetical, historical, sociological, theological and philosophical fields. The first explores hermeneutics related to the understanding and assimilation of the biblical text; the second addresses the weight of ideology in the construction of narratives invoked in the representation of the Other; the third pursues this theme of encounter and otherness in various historical perspectives. From a queer exegesis of the narrative of Acts 8 to the question of the extent of Christ's salvation in the hypothesis of inhabited worlds in science fiction literature, the eclecticism of these academic contributions, as well as their relevance to contemporary debates, promise the reader multiple changes of scenery and genuinely new thinking. This issue also includes a previously unpublished contribution by Paul Ricœur, a restitution of a three-speaker conference given in January 2000 on the theme of justice between ethics and law.

Off the Beaten Path
Off the Beaten Path

Author: LIT Verlag

Publisher: LIT Verlag

Published: 2021-01-10

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 364396465X

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In this book, the academic colleagues of Prof. Dr. Gie Vleugels, who turned 65 in 2021, celebrate his life by contributing chapters in his honor. Several chapters are innovative in nature, including Clemens Wassermann's comparative analysis of 1 John and the Fourth Gospel, which utilizes insights from Semitic syntax and shows how spoken Semitic dialects help us to unearth new perspectives on the relationship between John's Gospel and 1 John. The chapter on the Didache by Martin Webber makes innovative use of Social Identity Complexity Theory. Other contributions come from the fields of New Testament, Old Testament, Historical Theology, and Systematic Theology. Prof. Dr. Dr. Jacobus Kok is Professor and Department Chair of New Testament Studies and Co-Director of RCEC at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven in Belgium, as well as Professor Extraordinarius and NRF B3 rated scholar in the Department of New Testament and Related Literature, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria in South Africa. Prof. Dr. Martin Webber (Professor of New Testament Studies), Dr. Jeremy Otten (Senior Researcher and Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Greek) and Dr. Mark Paridaens (Lecturer in Greek) are also appointed at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven in Belgium.

Hope
Hope

Author: Lichner Milos

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2021-01-25

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 3643913303

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In our times hope is called into question. The disintegration of economic systems, of states and societies, families, friendships, distrust in political structures, forces us to ask if hope has disappeared from the experience of today's men and women. In August 2019, up to 240 participants met at the international theological congress in Bratislava, Slovakia. The main lectures, congress sections and workshops aimed to provide a space for thinking about the central theme of hope in relation to philosophy, politics, pedagogy, social work, charity, interreligious dialogue and ecumenism.

Representation and Ultimacy
Representation and Ultimacy

Author: Jan-Olav Henriksen

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 3643961685

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Jan-Olav Henriksen investigates the close relationship between God and human beings via an understanding of religion as clusters of practices that relate humans to ultimacy by different types of representation. Christian religion articulates its belief in God as creator (manifest in the power to be) and redeemer (represented in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ). Christ thus is the primary representation of God as the ultimate reality of love. He is also the true image of God, and the model for how humans are also called to represent God in love. The human features of desire and vulnerability, as these express elements that shape, form, and articulate challenges for human life, present humans with the need for orienting themselves, and for different types of transformation. Christian religion articulates a specific mode of how to cope with these challenges presented by desire and vulnerability: by living in love. Against this backdrop, Henriksen argues that neither how one understands religion, God, nor how to live a life that relates to ultimacy, can be tasks fulfilled as long as history goes on.