Es liegt seit je in der Natur des Menschen, mittels von Orakelsprüchen sowie mantischer Praktiken die Zukunft für das eigene Handeln zu erkunden. Auf einer anderen Stufe tritt der Prophet als Träger ...des Wortes Gottes auf, er verkündet den Willen der Gottheit, um so dessen Gegenwart den Menschen erfahrbar zu machen. Parusie bedeutet also die Anwesenheit einer Gottheit, wie sie sich im Hellenismus vor allem an dem Phänomen der Epiphanie dokumentieren lässt. Im Neuen Testament meint Parusie dagegen die machtvolle Wiederkunft des Menschensohnes am Himmel zum Weltgericht. Der Sammelband vereinigt 25 Beiträge von Altphilologen, Althistorikern, Archäologen, Religionswissenschaftlern und Theologen, um von Homer im 8. vorchristlichen Jahrhundert bis zu Augustin in der Spätantike eine Entwicklungslinie unter Beachtung der spezifischen Schlüsselbegriffe aufzuzeigen. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet hierbei die Genese der Begriffe im frühen Christentum, wobei es auf den Nachweis ankommt, dass das Christentum auch ein Teil der griechisch-römischen Antike ist.
Was macht eine religiöse Tradition aus, was muss verändert und was erneuert werden – und was auf keinen Fall? Das sind die Grundfragen dieses Buchs, zu denen Katrin Visse die Positionen der ...muslimischen Denker Fazlur Rahman (1919–1988), Khaled Abou El Fadl (*1963) und Seyyed Hossein Nasr (*1933) untersucht und darstellt. Angeregt von deren Gedanken, vertieft die Autorin in einem christlich-muslimischen Gespräch den Vorgang des Weitergebens, die Ausbreitung in verschiedenen Kontexten und die Rückbindung an Bibel oder Koran als Inspirationsquellen. Katrin Visse präsentiert eine christliche Theologie, die am Gedankengut muslimischer Autoren gewachsen ist. Ebenfalls zeigt ihre Untersuchung, wie eine solche Theologie im interreligiösen Gespräch Eigenes (wieder-)entdeckt und sich von anderen Positionen inspirieren lässt.
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Justice Wolterstorff, Nicholas
2008., 20100412, 2010, 2008, 2008-01-01
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Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights, and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff demonstrates ...that the idea of natural rights originated neither in the Enlightenment nor in the individualistic philosophy of the late Middle Ages, but has long been present in Hebrew and Christian scriptures. After contending that socially count of natural human rights is successful, offering instead a theistic account. Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Justice not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights.
Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the ...conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based, and thus in the emergence of the modern West's emphasis on guilt, Burrus seeks to recuperate the importance of shame for Christian culture. Focusing on late antiquity, she explores a range of fascinating phenomena, from the flamboyant performances of martyrs to the imagined abjection of Christ, from the self-humiliating disciplines of ascetics to the intimate disclosures of Augustine. Burrus argues that Christianity innovated less by replacing shame with guilt than by embracing shame. Indeed, the ancient Christians sacrificed honor but laid claim to their own shame with great energy, at once intensifying and transforming it. Public spectacles of martyrdom became the most visible means through which vulnerability to shame was converted into a defiant witness of identity; this was also where the sacrificial death of the self exemplified by Christ's crucifixion was most explicitly appropriated by his followers. Shame showed a more private face as well, as Burrus demonstrates. The ambivalent lure of fleshly corruptibility was explored in the theological imaginary of incarnational Christology. It was further embodied in the transgressive disciplines of saints who plumbed the depths of humiliation. Eventually, with the advent of literary and monastic confessional practices, the shame of sin's inexhaustibility made itself heard in the revelations of testimonial discourse. In conversation with an eclectic constellation of theorists, Burrus interweaves her historical argument with theological, psychological, and ethical reflections. She proposes, finally, that early Christian texts may have much to teach us about the secrets of shame that lie at the heart of our capacity for humility, courage, and transformative love.
Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great ...world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book by a leading historian of early modern Europe.
Perez Zagorin takes readers to a time when both the Catholic Church and the main new Protestant denominations embraced a policy of endorsing religious persecution, coercing unity, and, with the state's help, mercilessly crushing dissent and heresy. This position had its roots in certain intellectual and religious traditions, which Zagorin traces before showing how out of the same traditions came the beginnings of pluralism in the West. Here we see how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century thinkers--writing from religious, theological, and philosophical perspectives--contributed far more than did political expediency or the growth of religious skepticism to advance the cause of toleration. Reading these thinkers--from Erasmus and Sir Thomas More to John Milton and John Locke, among others--Zagorin brings to light a common, if unexpected, thread: concern for the spiritual welfare of religion itself weighed more in the defense of toleration than did any secular or pragmatic arguments. His book--which ranges from England through the Netherlands, the post-1685 Huguenot Diaspora, and the American Colonies--also exposes a close connection between toleration and religious freedom.
A far-reaching and incisive discussion of the major writers, thinkers, and controversies responsible for the emergence of religious tolerance in Western society--from the Enlightenment through the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights--this original and richly nuanced work constitutes an essential chapter in the intellectual history of the modern world.
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond ...measure.Through the Eye of a Needleis a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity.
Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven.
Through the Eye of a Needlechallenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.
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