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Elasticized Ecclesiology
This study confronts the current crisis of churches. In critical and creative conversation with the German theologian Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923), Ulrich Schmiedel argues that churches need to be “elasticized” in order to engage the “other.” Examining contested concepts of religiosity, community, and identity, Schmiedel explores how the closure of church against the sociological “other” corresponds to the closure of church against the theological “other.” Taking trust as a central category, he advocates for a turn in the interpretation of Christianity—from “propositional possession” to “performative project,” so that the identity of Christianity is “done” rather...
Essays on the Real Church
The spirit of the Reformation is often expressed in the well-known slogan that Reformed churches are always being reformed according to God’s Word, ecclesia reformata semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei. Over the last century, the spirit of this slogan motivated someone like Dietrich Bonhoeffer to argue that the visible form and life of the church should reflect the truth and message of the church. Already in his doctoral dissertation called Sanctorum Communio, the communion of the saints, the young Bonhoeffer combined theological claims and traditions with social theory and analysis, in this spirit, in an innovative way, to study the nature and integrity and witness of the church. At th...
Religious Experience Revisited
Religious Experience Revisited explores a dilemma which has haunted the study of religion since William James. Is religion rooted in experiences? Is religion rooted in expressions? How are experiences and expressions related? The contributors to this international and interdisciplinary compilation explore the possibilities and the impossibilities of a hermeneutics of religion. Combining theology and philosophy with biblical, cultural, historical and literary studies, they examine how religious experiences and religious expressions have been entangled in the past and in the present. These entanglements call for interdisciplinary conversations in which those who study experiences and those who study expressions can learn from each other in order to carve out important and instructive spaces for the study of religion.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
The purpose of this book is to provide up-to-date, interesting, and thought-provoking perspectives on various aspects of research into current and potential treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This book features 17 chapters, with contributions from numerous countries (e.g. UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia), including chapters from internationally recognized leaders in rheumatology research. It is anticipated that Rheumatoid Arthritis - Treatment will provide both a useful reference and source of potential areas of investigation for research scientists working in the field of RA and other inflammatory arthropathies.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine Fourth Edition
The fourth edition of Clinical Nuclear Medicine highlights the continued growth in clinical applications for PET and other aspects of molecular imaging. With its problem-oriented clinical approach, the book presents relevant topics of current importance to the practicing clinician rather than providing a comprehensive review of all technical and basic science aspects. An initial section covers the broad principles and scope of important areas that are considered to have impacted more significantly on current and future clinical practice since the last edition. The second section covers all the clinical systems where nuclear medicine helps current clinical practice, while a third section covers a number of relevant technical topics.
Critical Monks
Benedictine scholars around 1700, most prominently proponents of historical criticism, have long been regarded as the spearhead of ecclesiastical learning on the brink of Enlightenment, first in France, then in Germany and other parts of Europe. Based on unpublished sources, this book is the first to contextualize this narrative in its highly complex pre-modern setting, and thus at some distance from modernist ascriptions ex posteriori. Challenged by Protestant and Catholic anti-monasticism, Benedictine scholars strove to maintain control of their intellectual tradition. They failed thoroughly, however: in the Holy Roman Empire, their success depended on an anti-Roman and nationalized reading of their research. For them, becoming part of an Enlightenment narrative meant becoming part of a cultural project of “Germany”.
The Crucible of German Democracy
Robert E. Norton offers the first comprehensive study in any language devoted to Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923) and his activities during the First World War. Troeltsch was one of the most famous figures of his day, a renowned historian, philosopher, sociologist, and theologian. But he did not just comment on events, he also actively served in a number of public roles before, during, and after the war. Throughout the last decade of his life, Troeltsch was a central participant in many of the most significant political debates and struggles that took place in his country, and in the process he became one of the most forceful and committed proponents of democracy in Germany. Tracing the gradual rise and growth of democratic thought during the war, Robert E. Norton shows how democracy itself emerged as the pivotal question within German domestic politics around which everything else came to revolve. In this process, Ernst Troeltsch emerged as one of the most eloquent and persuasive voices advocating for democracy and peace, and always promoting the ideals of freedom and human dignity for all peoples.
Neuere reformierte Bekenntnisse im Fokus
Reformierte Bekenntnisschriften sind theologische Quellen besonderer Art. Das gilt insbesondere für die Vielzahl an Bekenntnissen der Gegenwart. Sie zeichnen sich durch ihr Selbstverständnis aus, Auslegung und Konfession des Glaubens in einer bestimmten Situation zu sein. Diese Situation ist konstitutiv für die jeweilige Darlegung des Geglaubten. Die Standortbedingtheit religiöser Rede sowie das Wissen darum sind den Bekenntnistexten inhärent. Sie stehen Vorstellungen von universell gültiger Wahrheit immer schon vermittlungsbedürftig gegenüber. Die Autorinnen und Autoren widmen sich diesem spannungsvollen Verhältnis von Normativität und Standortbedingtheit. Der Band vereinigt in sich Studien zu aktuellen Fragen der Hermeneutik reformierter Bekenntnisse sowie Fallstudien zu einzelnen Bekenntnistexten.
Reformierte Bekenntnisschriften
Im Hören auf das Evangelium entstanden in konkreten Situationen immer neue Bekenntnisse in der internationalen Gemeinschaft reformierter Kirchen. Bekenntnisakt wie erreichter Lehrstandpunkt sind – in Verbindung mit kirchlicher Ordnung – immer wieder neu zu vollziehen bzw. zu überdenken, getreu dem Grundsatz: ecclesia semper reformanda (Die Kirche hat sich stets zu erneuern). Eine gegenwärtige Generation hat dabei im Dialog mit dem Glaubensbekenntnis vergangener Tage die Chance, das eigene kirchliche Herkommen zu überprüfen. Gerade aus solcher Rückbesinnung und Erfahrung von Vätern wie Müttern im Glauben lernt sie, den Weg der Kirche nach vorne auszurichten – in bewusster Verbun...
Reformiertes Bekennen heute
Nach reformiertem Verständnis kann das Bekennen des Glaubens nicht formelhaft für alle Zeiten festgelegt werden. Lebendiges Bekenntnis ist von seiner jeweiligen Zeit dazu herausgefordert, in eigene, authentische Worte gefasst zu werden. "Wir, hier, jetzt - bekennen dies!" (Karl Barth). Seit 1980 haben reformierte Gemeinden weltweit zunehmend eigene Bekenntnistexte formuliert. Dieser Band macht Bekenntnistexte aus Afrika, Indonesien, Nord- und Südamerika und Europa in deutscher Sprache zugänglich und bietet zu jedem Text eine kurze Einführung in die Entstehung und den jeweiligen Kontext.
