• 1. Introduction: A Conspiracy of Silence, Bisexuality and Christianity.-
• 2. Why be happy when you can be normal? Heteronormativity and Worship in the Western Christian Church.-
• 3. Too Hot to Handle: A Denominational Sweep of Bisexual Erasure in the Church.-
• 4. The Damage of Silence: Bisexual Christians discuss mental health.-
• 5. Intersectional Identities: Bisexual Christians discuss self-actualisation and spirituality.-
• 6. Great is Thy Faithfulness: Bisexual Christians discuss non-monogamy and the Bible.-
• 7. The Church doesn't know what to do with us: Bisexual Christians in the UK discuss church life.-
• 8. It's just crap: Bisexual Christians in the USA discuss church life.-
• 9. The Silent B: Pastors and Educators discuss bisexuality and bisexual provision.-
• 10. Believing Out Loud: Pastors and Educators discuss affirming practice.- 11.Prudery, Primates and Public Conveniences: Specific challenges faced by Pastors and Educators.-12. Conclusion.
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This book critically examines the lived experiences of bisexual Christians across a range of Christian traditions in the UK and the USA. Shepherd assesses whether current data on elevated rates of depressive illnesses among bisexual people also apply to the bisexual Christian community. Drawing on data collected by the author on bisexual Christians across the lifespan, the book uncovers shocking incidences of biphobia and bi erasure in the Church. Widespread ignorance among pastors of middle sexualities outside of the hetero-/homonormative binary is revealed as well as a corresponding absence of appropriate support resources. Bisexuality and the Western Christian Church will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, applied theology, sociology and social psychology. It is also important reading for clergy, and LGBT faith organisations. With a Foreword by Eric Anderson, Professor of Sport, Masculinities, and Sexualities, University of Winchester, UK.
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• 1 General Introduction
• Section One: Setting the Interpretative Context
• 2 The Two Lungs of the Christian Mystical Life: the Cataphatic Way and the Apophatic Way
• 3 Theories of Mystical Development: the Classical Model According to Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism
• 4 Contemporary Approaches to Faith Development and Spiritual Growth
• 5 Hermeneutical and Methodological Considerations
• Section Two: Stories of Faith and Patterns of Growth: The Eight Interviews
• 6 Family, Faith, and the Path towards Coming Out
• 7 Early Adulthood and the Path Towards Integration
• Section Three: Towards a Gay Mystical Theology: Creating the Conversation
• 8 From Awakening to Coming Out
• 9 From Coming Out to Union with God
• Conclusion.
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Is the Christian mystical tradition a relic of another time, shaped by celibates for celibates, unable to engage meaningfully with people of our time who embrace their corporeality and sexuality as crucial aspects of their journey towards union with God? This book reflects in serious theological depth and detail on the spiritual and sexual journeys of gay men of mature and committed Christian faith, employing the Christian mystical tradition as the lens and the interlocutor in this process. This study examines the major themes and stages of the mystical tradition as outlined by Evelyn Underhill, but also including more recent work by Ruth Burrows, Thomas Merton and Constance Fitzgerald. Using methods of qualitative research, it then considers the texts of in-depth interviews conducted with men, most of whom are theologians or spiritual leaders with a deep Catholic faith, and all of whom are openly, self-affirmingly gay. Finally, it employs Ricoeur's hermeneutical theory to engage in a creative theological conversation between the traditional mystical stages and themes and these men's lives, as described in their interviews. This is a unique study that brings together ancient spirituality with contemporary lived religion. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, Christian mysticism and spirituality, and queer studies. It will be of particular interest to those teach spiritual direction and to all who seek new ways to engage with the spiritual lives of LGBTIQ+ people.
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One of the marks of being a philosopher is participating in debates about what counts as "philosophy." Of particular note in such debates is the question of how to distinguish philosophy from theology. Although a variety of answers to this question have been offered in the history of philosophy, in recent decades, the prominence of Christian philosophy has been heralded by many as a genuine triumph over the problematic narrowness of strong foundationalism, positivism, and scientism. For others, however, it signals that philosophy continues to risk being replaced by confessional theology. Wherever one comes down on such issues, and however one interprets recent trends in philosophy of religion, the idea of Christian philosophy continues to present pressing questions for those working in meta-philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, and value theory. In this volume, established scholars representing a variety of cultural traditions, religious perspectives, and philosophical priorities all wrestle with how the idea of Christian philosophy should be understood, appropriated, and engaged in light of where philosophy is and where it is likely to go. The volume includes classical essays that have deeply marked the field and also new essays that explore the relevance of Christian philosophy to issues in disability studies, engaged pedagogy, lived phenomenology, the academic study of religion, and the workings of social power. Rather than offer a unified view that seeks to settle things, the contributors demonstrate that Christian philosophy remains a topic of lively debate. Wherever one comes down on the issues considered here, this volume shows that Christian philosophy is neither merely of historical interest, nor of interest only to Christians, but instead remains a thoroughly philosophical topic worthy of serious consideration and substantive critique. With a Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University; Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia; and Honorary Professor of Australian Catholic University.
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One of the world's most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining of Weber's work, Kathryn Tanner provocatively reverses this thesis, arguing that Christianity can offer a direct challenge to the largely uncontested growth of capitalism. Exploring the cultural forms typical of the current finance-dominated system of capitalism, Tanner shows how they can be countered by Christian beliefs and practices with a comparable person-shaping capacity. Addressing head-on the issues of economic inequality, structural under- and unemployment, and capitalism's unstable boom/bust cycles, she draws deeply on the theological resources within Christianity to imagine anew a world of human flourishing. This book promises to be one of the most important theological books in recent years.
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• Acknowledgements Abbreviations
• Introduction Structure of the Work Dialogue and Christianity
• Dialogues and Late Antiquity
• The Dialogue Form and Rhetorical Training
• The Dialogue Form and Erotapokriseis
• Towards a Comprehensive Approach?
• A Formal Typology Guide to Dialogues Index of Dialogues, Erotapokriseis, and Related Texts General Index General Bibliography.
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This book addresses a particular and little-known form of writing, the prose dialogue, during the Late Antique period, when Christian authors adopted and transformed the dialogue form to suit the new needs of religious debate. Connected to, but departing from, the dialogues of Classical Antiquity, these new forms staged encounters between Christians and pagans, Jews, Manichaeans, and "heretical" fellow Christians. At times fiction, at others records of, or scripts for, actual debates, the dialogues give us a glimpse of Late Antique rhetoric as it was practiced and tell us about the theological arguments underpinning religious differences. By offering the first comprehensive analysis of Christian dialogues in Greek and Syriac from the earliest examples to the end of the sixth century CE, the present volume shows that Christian authors saw the dialogue form as a suitable vehicle for argument and apologetic in the context of religious controversy and argues that dialogues were intended as effective tools of opinion formation in Late Antique society. Most Christian dialogues are little studied, and often in isolation, but they vividly evoke the religious debates of the time and they embody the cultural conventions and refinements that Late Antique men and women expected from such debates.
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• Introduction
• 1
• 1. Robert de Clari
• 13
• 2. Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana
• 35
• 3. Innocent's Ambivalence
• 49
• 4. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental Miscegenation
• 73
• 5. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s)
• 89
• 6. The Chronicle of Morea
• 103
• Conclusion
• 123
• Acknowledgments
• 131
• Notes
• 133
• Index 177.
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Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek community over how best to respond to the Latin other while illuminating the mechanisms by which Western Christians authorized and exploited the Christian East. The experience of colonial subjugation opened permanent fissures within the Orthodox community, which struggled to develop a consistent response to aggressive demands for submission to the Roman Church.
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• The state of penal ideology and penal affairs
• It is wrong to punish anyone for any reason
• Conversion as inclusion: "they" are not the problem... I am
• What is wrong with rehabilitation?
• How conversion can rehabilitate the penal system.

"The millions of men and women locked up in jails and prisons do not need to be punished, nor should they be punished. Neither should they be treated as objects whose suffering is used to deter others from committing crimes; nor should they be forced to enter programs whose goal is rehabilitation. It is the prison, not prisoners, that needs to be rehabilitated because it has lost touch with the only morally and practically sound justification for confinement: creating the conditions for the detainee to remove the shackles of alienation and violence through the process of conversion wherein the heart's natural humility and compassion are progressively expanded"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface and Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction: The Bodhisattva Path and the Christ Path
• 1 Comparative Theology as Christian Theology * Some Historical Background * Theology of Religious Pluralism * Plan of This Book
• I Two Paths
• 1 Two Problems, Two Miracles
• 25 What to Study? * Bridging Gaps * The Miracle of the Bodhisattva * The Miracle of the Great Exchange * Matchless Wonders
• II Perfection of Wisdom and the Bodhisattva Path in Santideva
• 2 The Bodhisattva Path
• 59 Undertaking the Way of Enlightenment: Text and Reader * Cultivating Awakening Mind: Starting Where We Are
• 3 Extreme Wisdom, Groundless Compassion
• 82 Expanding and Dispelling the Self * Perfection of Wisdom * Back to the Bodhisattva * Being Buddha
• III Christian Reflections
• 4 The Bodhisattva as Aspirant: Creatures and No-Self
• 127 Creatures and No-Self * The Blessings of Emptiness * Mimetic Self: Too Little or Too Much? * No-Self and the Cross
• 5 The Bodhisattva as Buddha: Immanence and Emptiness
• 165 Buddha Nature * Theosis, Divine Energies, and Bare Awareness * Attainment and History * Attainment and Self-Consciousness * Practicing Bare Immanence * Christ and the Bodhisattva
• 6 How Do Buddhas Help?: Bodhisattva as Benefactor and Christ as Savior
• 209 Many Faces of Compassion * Three Ways That Bodhisattvas Help * Deity and Benefactor Meditation * Christian Reflections * Benefactor Practices in Christian Perspective * Bodhisattva and Christ I: Diversity and Person-Making * Bodhisattva and Christ II: Why Christ Suffers and Bodhisattvas Don't
• Conclusion: Crucified Wisdom
• 261
• Notes
• 271
• Works Cited
• 309
• Index 321.
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This work provides the first systematic discussion of the Bodhisattva path and its importance for constructive Christian theology. Crucified Wisdom examines specific Buddhist traditions, texts, and practices not as phenomena whose existence requires an apologetic justification but as wells of tested wisdom that invite theological insight. With the increasing participation of Christians in Buddhist practice, many are seeking a deeper understanding of the way the teachings of the two traditions might interface. Christ and the Bodhisattva are often compared superficially in Buddhist-Christian discussion. This text combines a rich exposition of the Bodhisattva path, using Santideva's classic work the Bodicaryavatara and subsequent Tibetan commentators, with detailed reflection on its implications for Christian faith and practice. Author S. Mark Heim lays out root tensions constituted by basic Buddhist teachings on the one hand, and Christian teachings on the other, and the ways in which the Bodhisattva or Christ embody and resolve the resulting paradoxes in their respective traditions. An important contribution to the field of comparative theology in general and to the area of Buddhist-Christian studies in particular, Crucified Wisdom proposes that Christian theology can take direct instruction from Mahayana Buddhism in two respects: deepening its understanding of our creaturely nature through no-self insights, and revising its vision of divine immanence in dialogue with teachings of emptiness. Heim argues that Christians may affirm the importance of novelty in history, the enduring significance of human persons, and the Trinitarian reality of God, even as they learn to value less familiar, nondual dimensions of Christ's incarnation, human redemption, and the divine life. Crucified Wisdom focuses on questions of reconciliation and atonement in Christian theology and explores the varying interpretations of the crucifixion of Jesus in Buddhist-Christian discussion. The Bodhisattva path is central for major contemporary Buddhist voices such as the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, who figure prominently as conversation partners in the text. This work will be of particular value for those interested in "dual belonging" in connection to these traditions.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780823281237 20190204

• List of Figures List of Illustrations Preface Abbreviations Chapter One: Print and the Reformation Crisis of Authority Part I: Overview, Background, and Beginnings Chapter Two: Contours of the Printed Debate Chapter Three: Heresy and Hermeneutics: The Background to the Controversy Chapter Four: Karlstadt's Challenge to Luther Chapter Five: The Early Debate in Switzerland Part II: Exchanges, 1526-1529 Chapter Six: Martin Bucer and Bugenhagen's Psalms Commentary Chapter Seven: Oecolampadius against the Wittenbergers Chapter Eight: Undermining Oecolampadius: the Debate with Pirckheimer Chapter Nine: The Contributions of Zurich and Strasbourg Chapter Ten: Print, Polemics, and Popular Response in South Germany Chapter Eleven: The Debate Matures, 1527-1529 Part III: Gradual Developments Chapter Twelve: The Lord's Supper in Catechetical Literature Chapter Thirteen: Sacramentarian Diversity Chapter Fourteen: Reconstituting Authority Conclusion Notes Bibliography.
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In Debating the Sacraments, Amy Nelson Burnett brings together the foundational disputes regarding the baptism and the Lord's Supper that laid the groundwork for the development of two Protestant traditions-Lutheran and Reformed-as well as of dissenting Anabaptist movements. Burnett places these disputes in the context of early print culture, tracing their development in a range of publications and their impact on the wider public. Burnett examines not only the writings of the major reformers, but also the reception of their ideas in the pamphlets of lesser known figures, as well as the role of translators, editors, and printers in exacerbating the conflict among both literate and illiterate audiences. Following the chronological unfolding of the debates, Burnett observes how specific arguments were formed in the crucible of written critique and pierces several myths that have governed our understanding of the sacramental controversies. She traces the influence of Erasmus on Luther's followers outside of Wittenberg and highlights the critical question of authority, particularly in interpreting the Bible. Erasmus and Luther disagreed not only about the relationship between the material world and spiritual reality but also on biblical hermeneutics and scriptural exegesis. Their disagreements underlay the public debates over baptism and the Lord's Supper that broke out in 1525 and divided the evangelical movement. Erasmus's position would be reflected not only in the views of Huldrych Zwingli and others who shared his orientation toward the sacraments but also in the developing theologies of the Anabaptist movement of the 1520s. The neglected period of 1525-1529 emerges as a crucial phase of the early Reformation, when evangelical theologies were still developing, and which paved the way for the codification of theological differences in church ordinances, catechisms, and confessions of subsequent decades.
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• Part 1: The ties that bind. Episcopal nepotism in the later Roman empire (c. 350-450) / Volker Menze
• A new approach to Ambrose of Milan's kingship / Ariane Bodin
• Influential friends? Augustine's Episcopal networks / Gillian Clark
• The authority of a "quasi-bishop" : patronage and networks in the letters of Isidore of Pelusium / Madalina Toca, Johan Leemans
• Patronage networks in the Festal Letters of Athanasius of Alexandria / David M. Gwynn
• Bishops as religious mentors : spiritual education and pastoral care / Peter Gemeinhardt
• Crossing the boundaries : networks and manifestations of Christian hospitality / Sigrid Mratschek
• Niceta of Remesiana's visits to Nola : between sacred travel and political mission / Carmen Angela Cvetković

• Part 2: Episcopal networks in context. The impact of the Laurentian schism on Ennodius of Pavia's participation in Episcopal networks / Daniel K. Knox
• Building and breaking episcopal networks in late antique Hispania / Jamie Wood
• Macedonius, Constantius and the changing dynamics of power / Erika Manders
• Caring for African confessors in exile : the ministry of Numeria and Candida during the Decian persecution (Cyprian, Epistulae 21-22) / Jakob Engbert
• The impact of geographical and administrative boundaries on late antique bishops / Daniëlle Slootjes
• Bishops and mission beyond the frontiers : from Gothia to Nubia / Andrea Sterk.

Recent studies on the development of early Christianity emphasize the fragmentation of the late ancient world while paying less attention to a distinctive feature of the Christianity of this time which is its inter-connectivity. Both local and trans-regional networks of interaction contributed to the expansion of Christianity in this age of fragmentation. This volume investigates a specific aspect of this inter-connectivity in the area of the Mediterranean by focusing on the formation and operation of episcopal networks. The rise of the bishop as a major figure of authority resulted in an increase in long-distance communication among church elites coming from different geographical areas and belonging to distinct ecclesiastical and theological traditions. Locally, the bishops in their roles as teachers, defenders of faith, patrons etc. were expected to interact with individuals of diverse social background who formed their congregations and with secular authorities. Consequently, this volume explores the nature and quality of various types of episcopal relationships in Late Antiquity attempting to understand how they were established, cultivated and put to use across cultural, linguistic, social and geographical boundaries.

• L'héritage chrétien : une évidence
• Les héritages, ou non, du christianisme
• Le pape et l'empereur
• La Réforme protestante
• Les guerres de Religion et l'État westphalien : 1517-1648
• L'incapacité des religions à faire la paix
• État moderne et statut des religions
• La mondialisation du christianisme
• La sécularisation de l'Europe une déchristianisation ?
• Les deux sécularisations
• Le concile Vatican II, début de la fin
• Quand l'identité chrétienne n'est pas la foi en Christ
• L'identité chrétienne survit-elle à la fin de la foi
• Peut-on fonder la morale en dehors de la religion ?
• L'Église contre le modernisme (1864-1964)
• Philosophie des Lumières et sécularisation de la morale
• La réaction antimoderniste de l'Église catholique
• L'auto-sécularisation du religieux
• L'entrée de l'Église dans la modernité
• Le monde protestant
• La réforme théologique de Vatican II
• La rupture anthropologique des années 1960
• La crise de 1968 et la rupture anthropologique : une nouvelle culture européenne
• L'institutionnalisation des "valeurs" de 1968...
• La sécession religieuse : l'encyclique Humanae vitae (juillet 1968)
• Un nouveau front : celui de la norme sexuelle et d'un tournant anthropologique
• Un revivalisme proprement catholique
• La recomposition du catholicisme européen
• La disparition de la démocratie chrétienne
• L'Église et le dilemme du relais politique
• L'identité et la valeur : quelle Europe face à l'Autre ?
• Les deux fronts de la guerre des valeurs : l'exemple américain
• Les deux fronts de la guerre des valeurs en Europe
• Le débat sur l'identité chrétienne
• L'Église entre identité et valeurs
• L'Église face à l'islam
• L'Église et l'offensive laïque
• L'identité chrétienne séculière et le populisme
• Fin de l'Europe chrétienne ou fin de la religion ?
• L'islam, accélérateur de l'évolution religieuse en Europe
• Quand la sécularisation de l'Europe est accélérée par les décisions des tribunaux
• Les lois sur les signes religieux
• La circoncision
• L'abattage rituel
• Le blasphème
• Le démantèlement de l'immunité cléricale
• La réglementation bureaucratique
• La défense de l'identité chrétienne : une contribution à la sécularisation des sociétés européennes
• Le voile de la musulmane et celui de la bonne soeur
• Les minarets suisses
• Le cas du crucifix
• La Cour européenne des droits de l'homme et la religion.

"Depuis des années, le débat sur l'identité chrétienne de l'Europe va bon train. Olivier Roy prend la question de front : l'Europe est-elle chrétienne aujourd'hui, et comment ? Peut-elle le rester en adoptant des postures nostalgique, autoritaires, identitaires ? De quel christianisme parlent donc ceux qui opposent, parfois de façon vindicative, les "valeurs chrétiennes" à deux vagues perçues comme également puissantes et menaçantes : une société très sécularisée et un islam conquérant, signes tangibles de l'effondrement en cours ? Quel sens, quels liens, quelle logique se repèrent dans la sarabande éclatée des réalités de l'héritage européen : christianisme, sécularisation, identité, culture, valeurs, normes, droit(s)... Au-delà du constat sans concession, le premier mérite de ce livre est d'éclairer notre condition d'Européens orphelins de leur passé chrétien. Lequel ne sera pas ranimé par des législations, mais, peut-être, par des prophètes."--Page 4 of cover.

• Part I:
• 1. Eusebius, of Caesarea--
• 2. The Ecclesiastical History-- Part II:
• 3. Christian intellectuals--
• 4. Christian ascetics--
• 5. Christian families--
• 6. Christian martyrs-- Part III:
• 7. The Church--
• 8. The Church and Rome.
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Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, written in the early fourth century, continues to serve as our primary gateway to a crucial three hundred year period: the rise of early Christianity under the Roman Empire. In this volume, James Corke-Webster undertakes the first systematic study considering the History in the light of its fourth-century circumstances as well as its author's personal history, intellectual commitments, and literary abilities. He argues that the Ecclesiastical History is not simply an attempt to record the past history of Christianity, but a sophisticated mission statement that uses events and individuals from that past to mould a new vision of Christianity tailored to Eusebius' fourth-century context. He presents elite Graeco-Roman Christians with a picture of their faith that smooths off its rough edges and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and relationship to Rome. Ultimately, Eusebius suggests that Christianity was - and always had been - the Empire's natural heir.
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The topic of immigration is at the center of contemporary politics and, from a scholarly perspective, existing studies have documented that attitudes towards immigration have brought about changes in both partisanship and voting behavior. However, many scholars have missed or misconstrued the role of religion in this transformation, particularly evangelical Protestant Christianity. This book examines the historical and contemporary relationships between religion and immigration politics, with a particularly in-depth analysis of the fault lines within evangelicalism-divisions not only between whites and non-whites, but also the increasingly consequential disconnect between elites and laity within white evangelicalism. The book's empirical analysis relies on original interviews with Christian leaders, data from original church surveys conducted by the authors, and secondary analysis of several national public opinion surveys. It concludes with suggestions for bridging the elite/laity and racial divides. Ruth M. Melkonian-Hoover: (Ph.D., Emory University) is Chair and Professor of Political Science at Gordon College, Massachusetts. She has contributed chapters to Faith in a Pluralist Age (2018) and Is the Good Book Good Enough? (2011). She has published in a wide range of journals including Social Science Quarterly, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Latin American Perspectives, Political Research Quarterly, Comment, and Capital Commentary. Lyman A. Kellstedt: (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at Wheaton College, Illinois. He has authored or coauthored numerous articles, book chapters, and books in religion and politics, including Religion and the Culture Wars (1996), The Bully Pulpit (1997), and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics (2009).
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• Danksagung
• Einführung
• Annäherung
• Problemanzeige und Fragestellung
• Forschungsstand
• Quellenbestand
• Herangehensweise
• Begriffliche Grundlegungen
• Historischer Kontext
• Etablierung und Erhaltung nationalsozialistischer Macht
• Grundzüge nationalsozialistischer Weltanschauung
• Gesetze und Verordnungen
• Terrormassnahmen
• Terror durch gesetzliche Ausgrenzung und Stigmatisierung
• Einzelne Terroraktionen
• Systematisierung des Terrors
• Mediale Propaganda
• Evangelische Kirche und die Konstituierung der NS-Macht
• Zusammenfassung
• Kirche und KZ
• Seelsorge in den Konzentrationslagern
• Quellen
• Wahrnehmung der Lagerseelsorge 1933
• KZ-Seelsorge als christliche und politische Umerziehungshilfe in den frühen Lagern
• Erste Probleme bei der KZ-Seelsorge bis 1936
• Behinderung der KZ-Seelsorge durch SS-Stellen bis 1937
• Verbot der kirchlichen Lagerseelsorge auf Befehl Himmlers 1937
• Versuche kirchlicher Betreuung nach 1937
• Auswertung
• Evangelische Geistliche in KZ-Haft
• Quellen und Literatur
• Überblick über KZ-Inhaftierungen von evangelischen Geistlichen zwischen 1933 und 1945
• Rechtliche Grundlagen der "Schutzhaft" und der KZ-Inhaftierungen von Geistlichen
• Gesamtübersicht
• Einzelbetrachtungen
• Auswertung
• Auswahl von KZ-Inhaftierungen evangelischer Geistlicher
• KZ-Inhaftierungen und deren Folgen in Nassau-Hessen und Sachsen 1935
• Quellen
• Landeskirche Nassau-Hessen
• Situation der Landeskirche 1935
• Zahlen und Gründe für die Inhaftierungen der Geistlichen
• Reaktionen auf die Verhaftungen
• Seelsorgerliche Betreuung der Geistlichen im KZ Dachau
• Zusammenfassung
• Landeskirche Sachsen
• Situation der Landeskirche bis 1935
• Zahlen und Gründe für die Inhaftierungen der Geistlichen
• Reaktionen auf die Verhaftungen
• Seelsorgerliche Betreuung der Geistlichen in Sachsenburg
• Zusammenfassung
• Ende der KZ-Haft und die Folgen
• Grund der KZ-Entlassungen und Amtsenthebungen
• Gründung des "Sachsenburger Kreises"
• Sächsische Bekenntnissynode an die Reichsminister Frick und Gürtner : 27./28. September 1935
• Denkschrift der VKL II an Adolf Hitler : 28. Mai 1936
• Schreiben der Sachsenburger Geistlichen an die VKL II : 22. Juni 1936
• Zusammenfassung
• Auswertung
• KZ-Inhaftierungen 1941/42 und der "Pfarrerblock" im KZ Dachau 1941-1945
• Zahlen und Gründe für die Inhaftierungen der Geistlichen 1941/42
• Evangelisches Leben im KZ Dachau seit 1941
• Quellen
• Allgemeine Haftbedingungen der Geistlichen ab 1941
• Kirchliches Leben und Handeln evangelischer Geistlicher unter Lagerbedingungen
• Betreuung der evangelischen Geistlichen durch die ELKB
• Zusammenfassung
• Theologische Deutungen der Lagerzeit anhand von in Dachau gehaltenen Predigten
• Überlegungen zur Definition von "Predigt" unter Lagerbedingungen
• Quellen, Auswahl und Quellenkritik
• Verfasser, Zuordnung und Themen
• Situative Darstellungen des Lagerlebens und deren theologische Deutungen
• Gesellschafts- und kirchenpolitische Darstellungen und deren theologische Deutungen
• Kirchliches Leben im "Bunker" und Predigten Niemöllers
• Zusammenfassung
• Auswertung
• Die Inhaftierungen 1935 und ab 1941/42 im Vergleich
• Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen ehemals inhaftierter Geistlicher
• Quellen, Auswahl und Quellenkritik
• Inhaltliche Analyse und Deutungshorizonte
• Berichte ehemals im KZ Sachsenburg inhaftierter Geistlicher
• Berichte ehemals in Dachau inhaftierter Geistlicher
• Auswertung
• Gesamtauswertung und Ausblick
• Aufeinandertreffen von evangelischer Kirche und KZ
• Evangelische Kirche vor und hinter den KZ-Toren
• Bekennende Kirche als Kirche der Verfolgten und des Widerstands
• Evangelische Kirche und KZ-Verbrechen
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis
• Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis
• Archivalische Quellen
• Veröffentlichte Quellen und Darstellungen
• Elektronische Quellen und Darstellungen
• Personenregister, Biogramme
• Ortsregister
• Sachregister
• Anhang
• Abbildungen
• Auflistung inhaftierter evangelischer Geistlicher.

For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a well-meaning churchman but incompetent theologian. By offering a careful reading of Irenaeus' polemical and constructive arguments, God and Christ in Irenaeus contradicts these claims by showing that he was highly educated, trained in the rhetorical arts, aware of general philosophical positions, and able to use both rhetorical and philosophical theories and methods in his argumentation. Moreover, the theological account laid down by his pen was original and sophisticated, supremely so for one of the second century. In contrast to readings that minimize the metaphysical dimension of Irenaeus' theology, Anthony Briggman establishes as pillars of Irenaeus' polemical argumentation and constructive theology his conception of the divine being as infinite and simple, the reciprocal immanence of the Word-Son and God the Father, divine generation, the union of the divine Word-Son and human nature in the person of Christ, and the revelatory activity of the infinite and incomprehensible Word-Son, amongst other features of his theology. Briggman offers a fundamentally new understanding of Irenaeus and his thought.
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• List of Figures Acknowledgements Reading Guide Introduction: Going to 'Pentecost': Outline of an Experiment Interlude: Locations in 'Pentecost' PART I: PRESENTATIONS FROM 'PENTECOST'
• Chapter 1. Borders in 'Pentecost': Creating Protected Spaces
• Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Life and Death: A New Moral Economy in 'Pentecost'
• Chapter 3. Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road PART II: THEORIES FROM 'PENTECOST'
• Chapter 4. Borders and Abjections: Rethinking Individualism in 'Pentecost'
• Chapter 5. Engaging with Theories of Neoliberalism and Prosperity
• Chapter 6. Pentecostal Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road PART III: COMMENTS Comment I: Comparison Replaced Matei Candea Comment II: Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism Joel Robbins Comment III: Life at The End of Time Bjorn Enge Bertelsen Comment IV: Wealth Versus Money in Pentecost Knut Rio Comment V: 'Pentecost' in The World Birgit Meyer References Index.
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Co-authored by three anthropologists with long-term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world - in particular the emergence of "non-territorial" religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) - and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular.
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