Church History

Rombilder im deutschsprachigen Protestantismus

Begegnungen mit der Stadt im "langen 19. Jahrhundert"

Herausgegeben von Martin Wallraff, Michael Matheus und Jörg Lauster

Unter Mitarbeit von Florian Wöller

[The Perception of Rome in German-Language Protestantism. Encounters with the City in the "Long 19th Century".]

This volume describes how an encounter with the city of Rome developed into a perception of Rome as shown in theology, in intellectual life and in the artistic life of Protestantism. The period studied begins in the late 18th century, since it was at this time that the real encounter with Rome became more important, and ends with the years surrounding the First World War, which was a significant turning point.   (read more...)

New Testament

Eun-Geol Lyu Sünde und Rechtfertigung bei Paulus

Eine exegetische Untersuchung zum paulinischen Sündenverständnis aus soteriologischer Sicht

[Sin and Justification in Paul’s Writings. An Exegetical Examination of the Pauline Understanding of Sin from a Soteriological Viewpoint.]

Eun-Geol Lyu critically analyses the Christian interpretation of the Pauline understanding of sin and attempts to look again at Paul’s doctrine of justification from the perspective of an understanding of sin. In this conception, the doctrine of justification entails an ‘atonement theology’, a theology of ‘non-imputation’, or rather ‘non-accounting’ of sin and finally a ‘liberation theology’.   (read more...)


New Testament

Ben C. Blackwell Christosis

Pauline Soteriology in Light of Deification in Irenaeus and Cyril of Alexandria

Ben C. Blackwell explores the view of salvation expressed in the Pauline letters in the New Testament by comparing it to the idea of deification, or theosis, expressed by Irenaeus and Cyril of Alexandria, two Christian writers in the first few centuries of the early church.   (read more...)

 

Systematic Theology

Dietrich Rössler Akzeptierte Abhängigkeit

Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Ethik

Herausgegeben von Friedemann Voigt

[Accepted Dependancy. Collected Essays on Ethics.]

The theologian and physician Dietrich Rössler interprets the current ethical debates as discourses on the understanding of human beings and the reality of their lives. He shows the contrast between the anthropological category of the totality of man and the dogmatic and scientific reductions of the concept of man. In the perception and portrayal of this totality there is at the same time a religious attitude and the Protestant signature of an ethics of humanity.   (read more...)