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Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus, is one of the most prolific catholic theologians of the contemporary era. He became Professor of theology at the age of 29, the youngest holder of a theological chair at that time. His theology not only draws from biblical-historical...
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This book presents and evaluates the liturgical vision of Pope Benedict XVI and the theological background underlying that vision. It describes the main features of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of the liturgy and analyses them within the context of his theology as a...
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Die Publikation dokumentiert zeitgenössische Beobachtungen und Deutungen zur Persönlichkeit der Freunde Franz Overbeck und Friedrich Nietzsche. Sie stellt außerdem die Anfänge des Streits zwischen dem Nietzsche-Archiv in Weimar und der von Overbeck begründeten Basler...
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¡Eternos enigmas recoge el cristianismo! Jesús y la religión cristiana ocupan el centro del humanismo occidental, incluyendo el pensamiento ateo. Si en tiempos de Jesús no había tranquilidad en el mundo, tras su paso por la Tierra las cosas todavía empeoraron... En este...
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Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics' objection to Christian exclusivism as its...
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By 1700, the Protestants of Europe, above all the Calvinists (Reformed), felt threatened anew by Roman Catholicism. Activists, especially Huguenot émigrés, pleaded to friendly rulers to restore Protestantism in France and to protect it in the Holy Roman Empire as aims...
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A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles explores Acts, with its twofold motif of self-exaltation and self-attribution of divine prerogatives, from the viewpoint of postcolonial criticism. The Lukan community struggles to legitimize itself, in hybrid fashion,...
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the most famous European poet of the twentieth century, exemplifies how the «crisis of language» inherent in literary Modernism also constitutes a crisis of religious discourse. In Rilke’s poetry and prose, language replaces God...
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What did early twentieth century New Zealanders make of Jesus, and what do their understandings tell us? This study provides the first historical analysis of New Zealand images of Jesus. Using a diverse range of churchly and secular sources it examines key themes and...
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Nachdem der Kölner Erzbischof Spiegel 1826 alle mehrtägigen und überdiözesanen Wallfahrtszüge verboten hatte, half der preußische Staat unter Polizeieinsatz bei der Durchsetzung des kirchlichen Wallfahrtsverbots im Nordrheinland. Diese staatliche Exekutivassistenz trug...
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The study analyses the current state of research on the synoptic problem and proves that the Synoptic Gospels were written in the Mark, Luke, Matthew order of direct literary dependence. Moreover, the work demonstrates that the Synoptic Gospels are results of...
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Der Ostseeraum ist von jeher eine Kontaktzone, die nicht nur wirtschaftlichen, sondern auch kulturellen und wissenschaftlichen Austausch ermöglicht. Das gilt erst recht im gegenwärtigen Rahmen eines sich wandelnden Europa. Bei der hier dokumentierten «Ostsee-Konferenz...
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The work establishes the relative and absolute chronology of Paul’s life. It demonstrates that Paul went to Jerusalem only two times after his conversion.The second visit, which was planned in Rom and described retrospectively in Gal, ended up with the Antiochene...
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The work analyses the current state of research on the problem of the relationship of the Fourth Gospel to the Synoptic Gospels. It proves that the Fourth Gospel, which was written c. AD 140–150, is a result of systematic, sequential, hypertextual reworking of the Acts...
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