Book Reviews: Stefan Höschele, Interchurch and Interfaith Relations. Seventh-day Adventist Statements and Documents
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The Historical-Critical Method and the Holy Fathers
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This study aims to capture the dynamics of the recent biblical studies in the Orthodox and Western, especially Protestant, theological areas. Both the Orthodox biblical theology and the Western biblical theology are streamlined by research, which can be inspired by each other´s experience. Thus, the Orthodox biblical studies are recently shaped in ...
Book Reviews: Orthodox Handbook on Ecumenism. Resources for Theological Education, Regnum Books International, 2014
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Ars necandi und ars moriendi in den Samuelbüchern
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The paper examines the Books of Samuel from two perspectives by posing two sets of questions: when is it legitimate (or, when is it perceived to be legitimate) to kill people, and when is this strictly forbidden? And how come to terms with one’s own mortality? The ‘ars necandi’ refers to four distinct areas: killing in war, suicide, murder and exec...
Die Auferweckung des Lazarus in den gottesdienstlichen Hymnen der Orthodoxen Kirche
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This essay investigates the liturgical hymns of the Orthodox Church referring to the Johannine story of the Raising of Lazarus (Jn. 11:1-44). These hymns are especially sung at the Services of the Saturday before Palm Sunday known as the Saturday of the holy and righteous Lazarus. The relevant hymns are deep theological interpretations of the Johan...
The Global Ecumenical Theological Institute – a forum for theological debate and inter-generational dialogue
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Editorial RES 2/2014
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Gadamer’s Concept of Aesthetic Experience as a Possibility for the Orthodox Biblical Theology
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This article finds its inspiration in the new interpretations of Gadamer’s hermeneutics, which underline the turn in his later period, and which focus on the conception of aesthetic experience as an experience of transcendence. The main thesis is that the understanding of artworks, as Gadamer describes them in contrast to the Kantian subjectificati...
Einander wahr-nehmen
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This article is a plea for a non-biblical approach to biblical texts, the so called “Rezeptionsästhetik” (aesthetics of reception). Important points of this approach are reading biblical texts as fictional (poetic) texts and the reader’s role in decoding the texts according to his “encyclopaedia”. Using aesthetics of reception in interpreting Bible...
The Creation Narratives in the Western and Greek-Orthodox Theology of the 20th Century
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The Book of Genesis offers not only to Israel but also to its neighbors the reason for their existence1. In western theological thought, W. Eichrodt’s Theology of the Old Testament and Cl. Westermann’s Commentary on Genesis are two of the most important works, which are distinguished because of their method and the expression of their theological p...
