Old Testament

Kristin Moen Saxegaard Character Complexity in the Book of Ruth

Kristin Moen Saxegaard demonstrates how character complexity generates theological themes in the Book of Ruth. Each character has its specific voice which raises a particular topic. The interaction between the characters elaborates multiple perspectives to these themes, which offer new approaches and alternative answers to the reading of Ruth.   (read more...)

New Testament

George L. Parsenios Rhetoric and Drama in the Johannine Lawsuit Motif

George L. Parsenios explores the legal character of the Gospel of John in the light of Greek drama, and gives particular attention to the legal character of "seeking" and of the signs of Jesus.   (read more...)

 

Church History

Arne Dembek William Tyndale (1491-1536)

Reformatorische Theologie als kontextuelle Schriftauslegung

[William Tyndale (1491-1536). Reformation Theology as a Contextual Interpretation of the Scriptures.]

This book on the life and work of the English reformer William Tyndale is the first comprehensive study of the theological work of one of England's most important sixteenth century theologians.   (read more...)

Systematic Theology

Thomas Wabel Die nahe ferne Kirche

Studien zu einer protestantischen Ekklesiologie in kulturhermeneutischer Perspektive

[The Close Distant Church. Towards a Protestant Ecclesiology from the Perspective of Cultural Hermeneutics]  

The latest decennial nation wide survey done by the Protestant church in Germany (EKD) shows that the numerous forms of participation which characterize an open people's church (Volkskirche) are defined by mutual inclusion and exclusion. In discussion with Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of culture and Bernhard Waldenfels' phenomenology, Thomas Wabel argues that the stabilizing element of criteria for membership and the destabilizing experience of transgressing existing boundaries are equally important for the church as an institution which is sensitive to an element of foreignness in the familiar.   (read more...)