Theologie in gefährdeter Zeit

Theologie in gefährdeter Zeit
Author: Hans-Gerd Janßen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2019
Genre: Political theology
ISBN: 3643141068

Johann Baptist Metz (* 5. August 1928) hat seine Theologie im intensiven Austausch mit Philosophie, Geschichte, Rechts-, Politik- und Sozialtheorie, Jüdischem Denken und Welt-Literatur & Kunst gewonnen und entfaltet – und so nicht nur in der theologischen Diskussion prägende Spuren hinterlassen. Seine Gottesrede lässt sich nicht aus den Katastrophen in Geschichte und Gesellschaft herauslösen, sondern bleibt im Kern herausgefordert angesichts der weltweit steigenden Gefährdungen: interkulturell, sozial, politisch, ökonomisch, ökologisch …! Dieser Band führt 150 kompakte Stellungnahmen zusammen, die Zeit-Zeichen setzen: die Beiträger_innen loten aus, in wieweit sie der Neuen Politischen Theologie und J.B. Metz als Person prägende Inspirationen und bleibende Impulse für ihre eigene Sicht auf Philosophie, Theologie, Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Recht, Politik, Bildung und Kunst verdanken: eine ungewöhnliche Festschrift voller Überraschungen und weiterführender Anstöße.

Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity

Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity
Author: LIT Verlag
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2023-01-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3643965001

A resilience theory on religion needs to answer four questions. What defines the kind of adversity which is addressed in religion? What is characteristic for processes of resilience in religion? What defines resilient religion as outcome? Which logic of inference (epistemology) based on our beliefs and experiences about reality binds these three elements together? The book starts with mapping the field of resilience theory on religion by addressing all four questions. The need for thinking about Christian resilience and the God symbol is addressed, and the need to be "explicitly contextual" with regard to resilience in South Africa. Next three types practices of religious acting are related to experiences of resilience, namely preaching, narrating and discerning. In the last chapters the focus is on the way stories help to express feelings of experiences of crises, tragedy, and trauma. But also how stories can help heal the broken heart. Prof Chris A.M. Hermans is extraordinary professor in practical theology and missiology at the University of the Free State (South Africa). He is emeritus professor in pastoral theology at Radboud University (the Netherlands).and emeritus professor in empirical study of religion as Radboud University (the Netherlands). Prof. Kobus (W.J.) Schoeman is professor of practical theology at the University of the Free State (South Africa).

Religion, Christian Faith, and Secular World

Religion, Christian Faith, and Secular World
Author: Hans Bringeland
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2021-01-25
Genre:
ISBN: 3643911394

What has been the role and understanding of religion in the last hundred years, and what can be the meaning of religion today? There is a well-known ongoing process of secularization in the Western world. Is there also a return of religion? And what does the fate of religion mean for an understanding of the Christian faith? These are topics of this book. The articles originate from the actual fields of research of an interdisciplinary group of scholars, who took part in a symposium held in Bergen Nov. 2019. The contributions relate to specific contexts in the modern history of religion from the perspective of religious studies, theology, philosophy and sociology.

Religiöse Bildung in Europa

Religiöse Bildung in Europa
Author: Patrik Dzambo
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019
Genre: Religious education
ISBN: 3643142455

Religionspädagogik in Europa, geht das? Als Dokumentation eines internationalen Forschungsseminars im September 2018 in Split angelegt, widmet sich dieser Band dem komplexen Feld einer komparativen Religionspädagogik. Der Reiz besteht darin, diese Frage im Dialog zwischen einer kroatischen und deutschen Religionspädagogik zu erörtern. Nach einer kurzen Skizzierung des jeweiligen Profils einer Religionspädagogik in Kroatien sowie in Deutschland, reflektieren Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler beider Länder in diesem Horizont und in einem breiten Zugriff religiöses Lernen unter spätmodernen Bedingungen. Geleitet durch die jeweiligen landesspezifischen Herausforderungen, zeigt sich vor allem in den Querverbindungen der einzelnen Beiträge die Brisanz einer komparativen Religionspädagogik in europäischer Perspektive, deren Potential als Weg einer kritisch-reflexiven Begegnung noch lange nicht ausgeschöpft ist.

Unbeaten Paths

Unbeaten Paths
Author: John Fernandes
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 364391153X

John Fernandes walked on Unbeaten Paths and presents a theologically reflected autobiography on it. He studied in Mangaluru, Pune, Innsbruck and Trier. As Pastor and Professor of Theology in India he committed himself to justice and peace. Living on the Periphery, Crossing Borders, Building Bridges aptly summarises the author's life. This book includes a lived Liberation Theology, examples of ecumenical and interfaith cooperation and commitment to justice, peace and ecology. Thus it is a contribution to narrative mission theology. The Indian artist Jyoti Sahi has illustrated the book.

Sisters of the Holy Cross, Menzingen 1844-1863

Sisters of the Holy Cross, Menzingen 1844-1863
Author: Mary Finbarr Coffey
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3643964684

While building on a comprehensive reading of available archival sources in the Menzingen Religious Institute, this work provides a greater understanding of the possibilities and the difficulties of a return textit{ad fontes} in the Church and in religious life. It discloses that a struggle for a founding inspiration is a struggle for the memory. The theoretical framework which has been constructed from scriptural sources in this study, is likely to be of use in a theological interpretation of any Christian founding event. Sr. M. Finbarr Coffey is a teacher in Philosophy and Ethics at the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, London. She is also the author of: The Question of Relativism: an Essay in Epistemology. New Millennium, London, 2016.

Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies

Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies
Author: LIT Verlag
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2022-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3643964625

Analecta Bruxellensia has been since 1996 the annual review of the Protestant Faculties of Theology and Religious Studies (FUTP (French) and FPTR (Dutch)) in Brussels. Analecta 21 is a varied number. Three themes are developed covering exegetical, historical, sociological, theological and philosophical fields. The first explores hermeneutics related to the understanding and assimilation of the biblical text; the second addresses the weight of ideology in the construction of narratives invoked in the representation of the Other; the third pursues this theme of encounter and otherness in various historical perspectives. From a queer exegesis of the narrative of Acts 8 to the question of the extent of Christ's salvation in the hypothesis of inhabited worlds in science fiction literature, the eclecticism of these academic contributions, as well as their relevance to contemporary debates, promise the reader multiple changes of scenery and genuinely new thinking. This issue also includes a previously unpublished contribution by Paul Ricœur, a restitution of a three-speaker conference given in January 2000 on the theme of justice between ethics and law.

Off the Beaten Path

Off the Beaten Path
Author: LIT Verlag
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-01-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 364396465X

In this book, the academic colleagues of Prof. Dr. Gie Vleugels, who turned 65 in 2021, celebrate his life by contributing chapters in his honor. Several chapters are innovative in nature, including Clemens Wassermann's comparative analysis of 1 John and the Fourth Gospel, which utilizes insights from Semitic syntax and shows how spoken Semitic dialects help us to unearth new perspectives on the relationship between John's Gospel and 1 John. The chapter on the Didache by Martin Webber makes innovative use of Social Identity Complexity Theory. Other contributions come from the fields of New Testament, Old Testament, Historical Theology, and Systematic Theology. Prof. Dr. Dr. Jacobus Kok is Professor and Department Chair of New Testament Studies and Co-Director of RCEC at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven in Belgium, as well as Professor Extraordinarius and NRF B3 rated scholar in the Department of New Testament and Related Literature, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria in South Africa. Prof. Dr. Martin Webber (Professor of New Testament Studies), Dr. Jeremy Otten (Senior Researcher and Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Greek) and Dr. Mark Paridaens (Lecturer in Greek) are also appointed at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven in Belgium.

Hope

Hope
Author: Lichner Milos
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2021-01-25
Genre:
ISBN: 3643913303

In our times hope is called into question. The disintegration of economic systems, of states and societies, families, friendships, distrust in political structures, forces us to ask if hope has disappeared from the experience of today's men and women. In August 2019, up to 240 participants met at the international theological congress in Bratislava, Slovakia. The main lectures, congress sections and workshops aimed to provide a space for thinking about the central theme of hope in relation to philosophy, politics, pedagogy, social work, charity, interreligious dialogue and ecumenism.

Battle for the Heart

Battle for the Heart
Author: Christiaan Andreas Maria Hermans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2020
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 3643963068