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Sinners on Trial
In post-Reformation Poland—the largest state in Europe and home to the largest Jewish population in the world—the Catholic Church suffered profound anxiety about its power after the Protestant threat. Magda Teter reveals how criminal law became a key tool in the manipulation of the meaning of the sacred and in the effort to legitimize Church authority. The mishandling of sacred symbols was transformed from a sin that could be absolved into a crime that resulted in harsh sentences of mutilation, hanging, decapitation, and, principally, burning at the stake. Teter casts new light on the most infamous type of sacrilege, the accusation against Jews for desecrating the eucharistic wafer. Thes...
Dis/ability in Mark
The gospel of Mark purposefully employs characters with specific and nuanced representations of dis/ability to portray the unique authority, the engaging message, and the mission of the Markan Jesus. Based on hermeneutical insights from Dis/ability Studies, this monograph is a contribution to the research of culturally and historically normalized corporeality in the biblical scriptures. At the core of the investigation are the healing narratives: passages that explicitly deal with a transformation from a described deviant bodily state to a positively valued corporeality. Lena Nogossek-Raithel not only analyzes the terminological and historical descriptions of these physical phenomena but also investigates their narrative function for the gospel text. The author argues that the images of dis/ability employed are far from accidental. Rather, they significantly influence the narrative’s structure and impact, embody its theological claims, and characterize its protagonist Jesus. With this thorough exegetical analysis, Nogossek-Raithel offers a firm historical foundation for anyone interested in the critical interpretation and theological application of the Markan healing narratives.
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Feminist Biblical Interpretation
The original German edition of Feminist Biblical Interpretation received high acclaim and widespread positive reviews in Europe. That groundbreaking reference tool for contextual biblical interpretation is here available in English for the first time. With contributions from more than sixty female scholars, this is the only one-volume feminist commentary on the entire Bible, including books that are relatively uncharted territory for feminist theology.
Bread, Wine, and Money
At Chartres Cathedral, for the first time in medieval art, the lowest register of stained-glass windows depicts working artisans and merchants instead of noble and clerical donors. Jane Welch Williams challenges the prevailing view that pious town tradesmen donated these windows. In Bread, Wine, and Money, she uncovers a deep antagonism between the trades and the cathedral clergy in Chartres; the windows, she argues, portray not town tradesmen but trusted individuals that the fearful clergy had taken into the cloister as their own serfs. Williams weaves a tight net of historical circumstances, iconographic traditions, exegetical implications, political motivations, and liturgical functions to explain the imagery in the windows of the trades. Her account of changing social relationships in thirteenth-century Chartres focuses on the bakers, tavern keepers, and money changers whose bread, wine, and money were used as means of exchange, tithing, and offering throughout medieval society. Drawing on a wide variety of original documents and scholarly work, this book makes important new contributions to our knowledge of one of the great monuments of Western culture.
God Or Goddess?
Hauke provides a tour de force study of the history and basic characteristics of modern feminism. Hauke presents an objective, detailed study of the facts of feminist theology around the world, using their own words and writings. He looks at the distinctiveness of feminist theology, what its image of man is as a fundamental point of departure, its basis from the experience of women as "formal principle", its views of the image of God, Christ, Mary, the Church, liturgy, ecology and eschatology. After carefully describing what the feminist position is, Hauke gives a critique from the point of view of the Catholic tradition. "The purpose of the present work is to provide, not a kind of "encyclopedia" on feminist theology, but an introduction and representative survey of central themes that will enable one to form a personal opinion. Addressed here are not just specialists in theology but all women and men who desire to inform themselves further about the powerful historical current that is feminist theology." -Manfred Hauke
Saluting Aron Gurevich
Aron Gurevich was a towering figure of twentieth century medieval historical research. This extraordinarily rich and multifaceted volume presents provides a comprehensive introduction to this great scholar’s life and work. These thoughtful essays demonstrate not only the deep Russian roots of Aron Gurevich’s thought but how he developed his own independent vision of the past in dialogue with pre-revolutionary Russian forms of German Neo-Kantianism, the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, and the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin. Much more than a traditional Gedenkschrift, the editors have provided us with a first rate document in the intellectual history of twentieth century Russia and Europe. Patrick Geary, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, IAS, Princeton, and Distinguished Professor of History Ermeritus, UCLA Contributors are Peter Burke, Andrew Cowell, Charles J. Halperin, Eve Levin, Eva Osterberg, Harbans Mukhia, Michael Richter, Svetlana Luchitskaya, Roger Markwick, Boris Stepanov, Thomas Izbicki, Jean Pierre Delville, Alexandra Korros, and Yelena Mazour-Matusevich.
Heilen und Heilung
Handauflegen und Heilen sind heute immer wieder Thema in Kirche und Seelsorge. Die Beiträge des Tagungsbands der SEK-Kommission Neue religiöse Bewegungen geben Einblicke in die Praxis des Handauflegens, Salbens und Segnens, wie sie in Kirchgemeinden und Seelsorge in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz oft still und unauffällig praktiziert wird. Teils wird diese Tradition in althergebrachter Weise gelebt, teils werden neue Formen erprobt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren thematisieren diese Praxis aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und reflektieren sie kritisch. Sie geben neue Impulse für die kirchliche Arbeit und regen eine Diskussion in Theologie und Praxis an.
Briefe 20. Juni 1788 – Ende 1790
Der Band enthält 228 Briefe, die Goethe nach seiner Rückkehr aus Italien bis Ende 1790 geschrieben hat, sowie sieben amtliche Schreiben. Darüber hinaus konnten 395 Briefe erschlossen werden. Die Korrespondenz dokumentiert u. a. den Abschluss seiner von Göschen verlegten ersten Werkausgabe, seine rege amtliche Tätigkeit, die zweite Italienreise, den Beginn seines Zusammenlebens mit Christiane Vulpius und die Geburt des Sohnes August.
Der "Gute Conrad" von Weißensee
Im Jahre 1303 löste der Fund eines toten Jugendlichen die grausame Vernichtung einer jüdischen Siedlung in Thüringen aus. Die in der abendländischen Gesellschaft verbreitete Obsession, Juden würden Christen rituell töten, kostete mehr als einhundert Juden in Weißensee, Gotha, Kölleda und Tennstedt das Leben. Der tote Junge hingegen wurde unter dem Namen »Guter Conrad« als Heiliger verehrt. Er fand sein Grab in der Peter- und Paulskirche von Weißensee, wo ihn Hilfesuchende und andere Wallfahrer aufsuchten. Der Ort war damit einer der ganz wenigen in Mitteldeutschland, wo ein einheimischer Heiligenkult entstand. Auch wenn die römische Kirche diesen Kult niemals formell anerkannte, ...
