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Friedrich Loofs in Halle
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 361

Friedrich Loofs in Halle

Friedrich Loofs war von 1888 bis 1927 Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Halle. In dieser Zeit hat er über Forschung und Lehre hinaus auch ein reiches pastorales, politisches und soziales Wirken entfaltet. In zehn Einzelstudien würdigt der vorliegende Band Loofs’ theologisches Profil als Dogmengeschichtler, seine Arbeit als Verfasser zahlreicher Artikel für die Realenzyklopädie, seine Gelehrtenfreundschaft mit Adolf von Harnack, seinen Beitrag zu Reformationsjubiläen und sein Verständnis der Reformation, sein politisch-diplomatisches Engagement gegen die Vernichtung des armenischen Volkes, seinen Einsatz für die Ausbildung armenischer Nachwuchstheologen, seine Tätigkeit als Universitätsprediger und seine ehrenamtlichen Aufgaben als Armenpfleger der Stadt Halle. So zeichnet der Band ein facettenreiches Bild und fördert manch weniger bekannte Seiten des Wirkens von Friedrich Loofs in Halle zu Tage. Zugleich illustriert er am Beispiel einer prominenten Professorenpersönlichkeit die Bedeutung einer Universität und ihrer Mitglieder nicht nur für die jeweiligen Fächerkulturen, sondern für das Gedeihen einer Stadt und Region insgesamt.

Beyond Reception
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Beyond Reception

This book argues that it is time to rethink reception as a traditional paradigm for understanding the relation between the ancient Greco-Roman traditions and early Judaism and Christianity. The concept of reception implies taking something from one fixed box into another, often chronologically later one, but actually Jews and Christians were deeply involved in Greco-Roman society in many different ways. The communication of cultural and religious ideas and practices took place among various religious and cultural communities with many overlaps. Accordingly, the contributors of this volume intend to develop a more multi-faceted view of such processes and to go beyond the term reception.

Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity
  • Language: en

Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity

Clerical Exile and Social Control - Bishops in Exile - Discourses, Memories and Legacies of Clerical Exile

Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christian Apologetics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christian Apologetics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This book contains the contributions to a workshop on apologetics in early Christianity which took place at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford in the summer of 2007. The workshop was arranged by scholars from Germany, Finland and Denmark who had for some time worked together in a project on early Christian apologetics. The aim of the workshop was thus to present and discuss some of the results and still unsolved problems which arose from this project. The book presents the contributions to the workshop. Hereby the editors hope to reach a larger audience and thus to be able to further the discussion of the topic of early Christian apologetics.

Bilingual Education in Primary School
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Bilingual Education in Primary School

Bilinguale Unterrichtsformen sind in einem mehrsprachigen Europa derzeit stark angesagt, sowohl in der Grund- als auch der Sekundarschule. Diese Einführung gibt einen guten Überblick über aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse, Konzepte, Fragen und Praktiken des bilingualen Unterrichts in der Primarstufe. Das Buch wendet sich gleichermaßen an Lehrkräfte, Referendare und Studierende und informiert über Chancen und Grenzen, die bei der Einführung bilingualer Unterrichtsprogramme wie CLIL, Immersion oder bilinguale Module berücksichtigt werden müssen. Jedes Kapitel enthält eine Kurzzusammenfassung, vor- und nachbereitende Fragen zum Text sowie Literaturempfehlungen zu den einzelnen Bereichen.

Narrated Reality
  • Language: en

Narrated Reality

The Historia ecclesiastica of Eusebius took part in the cultural negotiations that attended the turn to a post-Constantinian Christianity. The immediate success of Historia ecclesiastica indicates its success in legitimizing the change process, and in conferring upon the Christian readers a past in keeping with their own situation. This book pinpoints the more or less fragmented concepts of history and world implied in Historia ecclesiastica and investigates what narrative(s) on the history of Christianity are contained in the work, and how Christianity and church are constructed as ideal entities. Differing from more conventional readings, where Historia ecclesiastica would be read as a more or less reliable document concerning the history of early Christianity, the book primarily reads the work as a text, pointing towards the cultural system which the text is itself a part of, but to which our access is only partial.

The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought

This volume explores the long-standing tensions between such notions as soul and body, spirit and flesh, in the context of human immortality and bodily resurrection. The discussion revolves around late antique views on the resurrected human body and the relevant philosophical, medical and theological notions that formed the background for this topic. Soon after the issue of the divine-human body had been problematized by Christianity, it began to drift away from vast metaphysical deliberations into a sphere of more specialized bodily concepts, developed in ancient medicine and other natural sciences. To capture the main trends of this interdisciplinary dialogue, the contributions in this volume range from the 2nd to the 8th centuries CE, and discuss an array of figures and topics, including Justin, Origen, Bar Daisan, and Gregory of Nyssa.

Defending and Defining the Faith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 485

Defending and Defining the Faith

In Early Christian Apologetics, D.H. Williams offers a first comprehensive presentation of Christian apologetic literature from the second to the fifth century CE. Williams argues that most apologies were not directed at a pagan readership. In most cases, ancient apologetics had a double object: to instruct the Christian and persuade weak Christians or non-Christians who were sympathetic to Christian claims. Taken cumulatively, he finds, apologetic literature was integral to the formation of the Christian identity in the Roman world

Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation
  • Language: en

Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation

This volume assembles written versions of lectures presented and discussed at the conference «Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation - Discursive Fights Over Religious Traditions In Antiquity» held at Aarhus and Ebeltoft in Denmark in the spring of 2010. Most of the religious texts studied in the contributions were drawn from Early Judaism and Early Christianity. The interest in these was on the one hand elucidating different aspects of the role they played in the formation and transformation of the religions, and on the other hand investigating the role these same texts played in cooperation and conflict between these two religions. The topics of the essays focus on four particular themes, namely Reuse, Rewriting and Usurpation of Biblical and Classical Texts, Invention and Maintenance of Religious Traditions, Orthodoxy and Heresy, and Formation of the Biblical Canon.

Mobility and Exile at the End of Antiquity
  • Language: en

Mobility and Exile at the End of Antiquity

This volume explores how forced movement and exile of clerics developed over time and ultimately came to shape interactions between the late-antique Roman Empire, the Byzantine, post-Roman, and early medieval worlds. It investigates the politics and legal mechanics of ecclesiastical exile, the locations associated with life in exile, both in literary sources and in material culture, as well as the multitude of strategies which ancient and early medieval authors, and the exiles themselves, employed to create historical narratives of banishment. The chapters are revised versions of papers given at international conferences held at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, the German Historical Institute London, and the University of Alcalá in 2016 and 2017.