Bøger af Christoph Markschies

The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world's religions - and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity, seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific instances of the face-off between religious thought and modernity, in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.As co-editor Christoph Markschies remarks in his Foreword, it may seem almost trivial to say that different religions, and the various currents within them, have reacted in very different ways to the "e;multiple modernities"e; described by S.N. Eisenstadt. However, things become more interesting when the comparative perspective leads us to discover surprising similarities. Disparate encounters are connected by their transnational or national perspectives, with the one side criticizing in the interest of rationality as a model of authorization, and the other presenting revelation as a critique of a depraved form of rationality. The thoughtful essays presented herein, by Simon Gerber, Johannes Zachhuber, Jonathan Garb, Rivka Feldhay, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Israel Gershoni and Christoph Schmidt, provide a counterweight to the popularity of some all-too-simplified models of modernization.

70 Jahre nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges sind die Zeiten in Europa turbulent: Die Erfolgsgeschichte der europaischen Integration wird von schweren Auseinandersetzungen um die richtige Wirtschaftspolitik, gewalttatigen Konflikten um die Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit und Renationalisierungsbewegungen in einigen europaischen Staaten erschuttert. Zwangslaufig stellen sich Fragen nach der Zukunft Europas, die in der Wissenschaft intensiv verhandelt werden: Wie konnte der spezifisch europaische Weg aussehen, mit diesen Krisen umzugehen und was halt Europa trotz oder gerade in Krisenzeiten zusammen? Wie wollen wir in Europa zusammenleben? Wie also sieht die Europaische Union von morgen aus und welche Rolle spielt sie in der Welt? Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage stellen die Ergebnisse des Jahresthemas Zukunftsort: Europa"e; der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) dar. Sie versuchen eine interdisziplinare und vielstimmige Bestandsaufnahme Europas in seinen historischen wie aktuellen Rahmenbedingungen, Narrativen und Zukunftsperspektiven.

Defining the term Gnosis and its relationship to Gnosticism, this book indicates why Gnosis may be preferable and sketches out the main problems. It then treats the sources, both those in the church fathers and heresiologists, and the more recent Nag Hammadi finds.

While for many today the idea of an embodied God seems simplistic - even pedestrian - Christoph Markschies reveals that in antiquity, the educated and uneducated alike subscribed to this very idea. More surprisingly, the idea that God had a body was held by both polytheists and monotheists.

Examines the institutional settings for the development of Christian theology. Specifically, Christoph Markschies contends that theological diversity is closely bound up with institutional diversity.