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The Acts of Early Church Councils Acts
The Acts of Early Church Councils Acts examines the acts of ancient church councils as the objects of textual practices, in their editorial shaping, and in their material conditions. It traces the processes of their production, starting from the recording of spoken interventions during a meeting, to the preparation of minutes of individual sessions, to their collection into larger units, their storage and the earliest attempts at their dissemination. Thomas Graumann demonstrates that the preparation of 'paperwork' is central for the bishops' self-presentation and the projection of prevailing conciliar ideologies. The councils' aspirations to legitimacy and authority before real and imagined ...
Murmuring Against Moses: The Contentious History and Contested Future of Pentateuchal Studies
For much of the history of both Judaism and Christianity, the Pentateuch—first five books of the Bible—was understood to be the unified work of a single inspired author: Moses. Yet the standard view in modern biblical scholarship contends that the Pentateuch is a composite text made up of fragments from diverse and even discrepant sources that originated centuries after the events it purports to describe. In Murmuring against Moses, John Bergsma and Jeffrey Morrow provide a critical narrative of the emergence of modern Pentateuchal studies and challenge the scholarly consensus by highlighting the weaknesses of the modern paradigms and mustering an array of new evidence for the Pentateuch’s antiquity. By shedding light on the past history of research and the present developments in the field, Bergsma and Morrow give fresh voice to a growing scholarly dissatisfaction with standard critical approaches and make an important contribution toward charting a more promising future for Pentateuchal studies.
Romanesque Tomb Effigies
Framed by evocative inscriptions, tumultuous historical events, and the ambiguities of Christian death, Romanesque tomb effigies were the first large-scale figural monuments for the departed in European art. In this book, Shirin Fozi explores these provocative markers of life and death, establishing early tomb figures as a coherent genre that hinged upon histories of failure and frustrated ambition. In sharp contrast to later recumbent funerary figures, none of the known European tomb effigies made before circa 1180 were commissioned by the people they represented, and all of the identifiable examples of these tombs were dedicated to individuals whose legacies were fraught rather than triump...
Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 7, Number 2
Catholic Peacemaking Edited by Jason King Military Sexual Assault as Political Violence and Challenge to Christian Ethics Meghan J. Clark Domestic Violence in the Domestic Church: An Argument for Greater Attention to Intimate Partner Abuse in Catholic Health Care Lauren L. Baker Studies in Scripture for Moral Theologians Jeffrey L. Morrow From Strangers to Neighbors: Toward an Ethics of Sanctuary Cities Gary Slater Round Table Discussion: Just Peacemaking A “Manual” for Escaping Our Vicious Cycles Gerald W. Schlabach A Virtue-Based Just Peace Ethic Eli S. McCarthy The Changing Vision of “Just Peace” in Catholic Social Tradition Lisa Sowle Cahill
Isaac La Peyrère
Der französische Gelehrte Isaac La Peyrère (1596‐1676) galt schon seinen Zeitgenossen als ‚Enfant terrible‘. Bis in die jüngste Forschung haben seine skandalumwitterten Schriften zu polarisierenden Deutungen geführt, die ihn entweder als Kryptojuden oder als frühen Atheisten ausweisen. Erstmals untersucht die vorliegende Studie ihn und sein Werk nicht nur theologiegeschichtlich, sondern auch im spezifischen Kontext der sozialen Praktiken der europäischen Gelehrtenrepublik des 17. Jahrhunderts. In diesem Spannungsfeld erweisen sich klare Zuordnungen dann als unzulässige Vereindeutigungen: La Peyrères Bibelkritik und sein auffälliges Interesse an den Juden erklären sich sowohl vor dem Hintergrund seiner Patronagebeziehung zum Prinzen Condé wie durch seine spiritualistische Pauluslektüre. Sein ‚Du Rappel des Juifs‘ kann damit in den Rahmen zeitgenössischer Diskurse religiöser Ambiguität eingeordnet werden. Insgesamt versteht sich die Studie auch als Beitrag zum Umgang mit problematischen biographischen Materialien der Frühen Neuzeit wie zur Reflexion moderner Wahrnehmungskategorien zu Wissen, Wissenschaft und Identität.
Das Christentum im frühen Europa
Die zwanzig Beiträge des Sammelbandes gehen auf eine von Uta Heil und Volker Drecoll veranstaltete Tagung zu "Formation of European Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" in Wien 2017 zurück. Sie stellen wichtige theologische Diskurse und Entscheidungen vor, die Kirche, Gesellschaft und Regentschaft prägten, und behandeln die zeitgenössischen Vorstellungen von Ethnien und Regionen, die Bedeutung des gehobenen Lateins, erkennbare Prozesse des Textedierens, die Art und Weise sowie den Inhalt der Debatten über die Trinität und Christologie, die Bedeutung einer Abgrenzung vom Judentum sowie die Bekenntnisbildung und Theologievermittlung in Liturgie und Katechese. Der Ban...
Theology, Politics, and Exegesis
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores biblical scholarship from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries and then discusses its new place in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century where such scholarship would flourish. Far from merely an objective and neutral method, such scholarship was never without philosophical, theological, and political underpinnings. Morrow concludes the volume with a look at the separation of biblical studies from theology, using the example of Catholic moral theology in the twentieth century.
Three Skeptics and the Biblef
Biblical scholars by and large remain unaware of the history of their own discipline. This present volume seeks to remedy that situation by exploring the early history of modern biblical criticism in the seventeenth century prior to the time of the Enlightenment when the birth of modern biblical criticism is usually dated. After surveying the earlier medieval origins of modern biblical criticism, the essays in this book focus on the more skeptical works of Isaac La Peyrere, Thomas Hobbes, and Baruch Spinoza, whose biblical interpretation laid the foundation for what would emerge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as modern biblical criticism.
Pretensions of Objectivity
Modern historical biblical criticism, while having many strengths, often operates under the pretensions of objectivity, as if such scholarship were neutral and disinterested. Examining the history and roots of modern biblical scholarship shows that such objectivity is elusive, and was never intended by the method's earliest practitioners. Building upon his earlier work in Three Skeptics and the Bible and Theology, Politics, and Exegesis, Morrow continues this historical investigation into the political and philosophical roots of modern biblical criticism in Pretensions of Objectivity, in the hope of developing a criticism of biblical criticism and of making space for theological exegesis.
Liturgy and Sacrament, Mystagogy and Martyrdom
For far too long the Bible has been studied as just one among many historical and cultural documents from ancient history. That it is a foundational text for Western civilization is clear. What is too often forgotten or ignored in academic discussions, however, is that the Bible has also inspired the lives of countless saints throughout history; men and women who sought to love God and love neighbor to the point of offering heroic sacrifices, sometimes giving up their very lives. Much of biblical scholarship over the past two centuries, however, has reduced the Bible to a dead historical document with little-to-no relevance for today, beyond intellectual curiosity. This, in part, lies at the...
