Christoph Böttigheimer Knihy

This volume offers a fascinating insight into the history, the main ideas and current developments in economic thought from the perspective of the three major monotheistic faiths Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The reader encounters topics such as

This volume of the series „Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses“ investigates the roots of the concept of „body“ in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Body and being a created being stands in the focus of all the thre major monotheistic faiths. It is not just by the christian idea of man's likeness to God that indicates that the human body is a central object of religious thinking, both culturally and theologically charged. Here, the body stands in the crossfire of terms like „pure“ and „unpure“, „sacred“ and „profane“, „male“ and „femal“. And besides the theological controversies, everyday experiences like sexuality, gender equality and how to dispose of the own body (and that of others) are undoubtly recent and highly contentious discussion points in the debate of a peaceful living together of different religions and cultures. The volume presents the concept of „body“ in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of the body in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

This volume of the series „Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses“ investigates the roots of the concept of „soul“ in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The human soul fascinates not only believers in the three monotheistic faiths. Believing in an immortal entitiy, surpassing body, materia and their temporality and thus seeming to be closer to the creator that the mere body was and remains to be a vividly discussed theme in theological and practical debates. Even our secular, postreligious environment is unable to disengage from the key concept of the soul. Numerous proverbs, undefined concepts and hopes prove this fact. Asking for the soul means asking fundamental questions like life after death and therefor asking for one of the most fundamental and uniting hopes of human beings, be they secular or religious. The volume presents the concept of „soul“ in its different aspects as anchored in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about peace within these three traditions. The book offers fundamental knowledge about the specific understanding of the soul in each one of these traditions, their interdependencies and their relationship to secular world views.

Die vierte Auflage des Lehrbuchs bietet eine umfassende Überarbeitung der fundamentaltheologischen Ansätze, die neu zugeordnet und auf aktuelle Debatten abgestimmt wurden. Zudem werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse und neue Dokumente des kirchlichen Lehramtes berücksichtigt.

Das Reich Gottes ist Inhalt der Predigt Jesu und Kerngehalt christlichen Glaubens. Weithin aber dominiert eine auf das Kreuz fokussierte Erlosungslehre, wodurch der Glaube inhaltlich halbiert wird. Bottigheimer ruckt demgegenuber die Reich-Gottes-Botschaft in den Fokus, erlautert ihre Bedeutung und klart wichtige Fragen: Ist Gottes Reich schon gegenwartig oder noch ausstehend? Was hat es mit dem Gedanken der Wiederkunft Christi auf sich? Ruhren Erlosung und Heil allein vom Kreuzestod Jesu her? Deutlich wird, dass die gegenwartig schwierige Situation der Kirche tief reicht und den Inhalt des Glaubens betrifft: Ist das, was heute verkundigt wird, noch die unverkurzte Botschaft Jesu?