To many readers the book of Ezekiel is a hopeless riddle. However, if we take the time to study it, we will discover that despite the strangeness of the man and his utterances this is the most clearly organized of the major prophetic books. If we persist, we will also discover t…
Diese Einführung bietet wissenschaftlich fundiert einen gut lesbaren Überblick über die verschiedenen Schulen des theologischen Denkens im Islam in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Ohne ihre historischen Wurzeln zu vernachlässigen, wird dabei den modernen und zeitgenössischen Ausprä…
The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss scoured the Amazon forest for the myths of its primitive peoples. He found that a certain logic governed the construction of these myths--his mythologique; he regarded this logic as innate in the human mind and thus universal. Despit…
Christian tradition has largely held three theological affirmations on the resurrection of the physical body. Firstly, that bodily resurrection is not a superfluous hope of afterlife. Secondly, there is immediate post-mortem existence in Paradise. Finally, there is numerical ide…
The rediscovery of Jesus' eschatological discourse
