Christian Peters Knihy

Globalization and doctoral education in the twenty-first century. This book provides an evaluation of changes and reforms in doctoral education since 2000. Recent decades have seen an explosion in doctoral education worldwide, and the increased potential for diverse employment has generated greater interest. Recognizing the diversity of academic cultures and institutional systems worldwide, the book advocates for a core value system to overcome inequalities in access to doctoral education. The chapters focus on the structures and quality assurance models of doctoral education, supervision, and funding from an institutional and comparative perspective. The book examines capacity building in the era of globalization, global labor market developments for doctoral graduates, and the ethical challenges and political contestations that may manifest in the process of pursuing a PhD.

In Ergänzung der Neuedition der Bekenntnisschriften der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche werden in diesem Quellenband erstmals alle bislang nur handschriftlich vorliegenden Vorstufen der Konkordienformel und der Vorrede von Konkordienformel und Konkordienbuch ediert. Die Quellen erstmals vollständig in einer modernen, editorisch zuverlässigen Ausgabe. Subscription price until 10.03.2015: EUR 79,99!/Regular price: EUR 89,99As a supplement to the new edition of the Confessionals of the Protestant Lutheran Church (BSELK) this volume represents the first edited volume of the handwritten documents that preceded the Formula of Concord and the Preface to the Formula of Concord contained in the Book of Concord. Included are the five articles and the six sermons of Jacob Andreae, the Swabian Concord and the Swabian-Saxon Concord, the Maulbronn Formula and the Torgau Book as well as the precursors to the Preface. These documents clearly reveal the complicated origins of the Book of Concord as well as highlighting the struggles that went on to reach a consensus and the resolve necessary to achieve theological unity - the work of both the theologians and secular rulers alike.