Michael Welker

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German description: Dieser Band analysiert die machtigen normativen Grundlagen, die - im Guten wie im Schlechten - den moralischen Charakter und die ethische Bildung in Europa, Amerika, Australien, Sudafrika und anderen spatmodernen liberalen Gesellschaften pragen. Auf der Grundlage einer gross angelegten interdisziplinaren und internationalen Studie analysiert dieser Band zunachst die sich wandelnden Orte und Rollen dieser normativen Grundlagen sowohl in den traditionellen sozialen Spharen von Familie, Religion, Recht, Politik und Markten als auch in den neuen sozialen Spharen von Bildung, akademischer Forschung, Gesundheitsversorgung, Medien und Militar. Alle diese sozialen Systeme und ihre komplexe Gewaltenteilung sind fur den Aufbau eines guten Lebens und einer guten Gesellschaft heute unverzichtbar. Keines dieser sozialen Systeme sollte die anderen dominieren. Mit ihren jeweiligen Kompetenzen mussen sie zusammenwirken, um das Streben nach Gerechtigkeit, Freiheit, Wahrheit, Menschenfreundlichkeit und Frieden im In- und Ausland zu fordern. English summary: This volume analyzes the powerful normative codes that, for better or worse, shape moral character and ethical education in European countries, in the US, Australia, South Africa, and other late modern liberal societies. Drawing on a major interdisciplinary and international study, this volume analyses the shifting places and roles of these normative codes both in the traditional social spheres of family, religion, law, politics, and markets as well as in the new social spheres of education, academic research, health care, the media, and the military. All of these social systems as well as their complex division of powers, we argue, are essential for building a good life and a good society today, and none should dominate the others. And all of these social systems with their competences must work separately and together to foster justice, freedom, benevolence, and peace at home and abroad.

God revealed himself in Jesus Christ! The Christian faith has professed and proclaimed this for 2000 years. What is he saying? Jesus of Nazareth did not work long in Galilee and Jerusalem, perhaps only a year. He healed people, taught them, but also caused horror, fear and hatred. Individuals saw: Here is more than one great teacher and prophet. Since his crucifixion and resurrection appearances, people have testified: Jesus Christ lives - he lives in a new form. The risen and exalted Christ works in the power of his Spirit. He is God of God, he has creative power. Large sections of humanity can be won over to the kingdom of Christ. Many people, however, misuse his name for self-serving ends, even for their own interests in power and conquest. But he persistently works through his word, his spirit. His kingdom is persistently coming: in love and mercy, in the search for truth and justice, in powers of exaltation and redemption. The powers of this kingdom awaken in people a passion to deepen their knowledge of God and to seek justice. They are emergent in many acts of love and forgiveness. They also radiate publicly, often in a secularized and political way, among people who strive for education and health care for all, who want to shape free communities and civil societies and who continue to demand unconditional respect for human rights and human dignity. The emanating powers of this kingdom promise and characterize fulfilled life - on a small and large scale, temporally and eternally. Michael Welker's Christology, now in its fourth edition, opens up these connections. With this she answers the question of what the Christian faith says when it testifies: God reveals himself in Jesus Christ.

In this book John Polkinghorne and Michael Welker explain how they understand faith in the living God. Between them, they offer a ""binocular vision from their] twin perspectives to yield helpful insight in relation to the important issues."" Part of the fascination of this book is how two people with such different backgrounds approach central theological questions relating to the faith they both share. Their concerns are truth rather than polemics, reliability rather than simple certainty. They seek to anchor their thought in concrete particulars rather than abstract generalizations. They ask the questions that trouble the inquiring mind, and meet head-on the challenge as well as the reassurances of belief. This second edition provides a new Preface and updated bibliographies. ""Two leading Christian thinkers, a physicist and a theologian, engage here in a truth-seeking conversation about their common faith in the living God. The book is short but its content is profound: a compelling witness to both the reasonableness and substantive richness of the Christian faith written for its troubled friends and its educated despisers alike."" --Miroslav Volf, director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture ""Here is a stimulating dialogue on the articles of faith from two of the most gifted theologians of our time. Polkinghorne speaks in conversation with science and Welker with philosophical and cultural challenges. Though different in some ways, they are both convinced that a biblically informed faith invites us to speak of God in the midst of life as it actually exists in all of its complex possibilities and dangers. This is much more of an invitation to join a conversation than it is a system of thought. I found it compelling."" --Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University ""This book's genre makes it unique and exceptional--a conversation between friends, although from diverse backgrounds, both of them informed and inspiring. There are many other books on these themes, even these two have published on many of these topics, but there is nothing like this book. Readers are privileged almost to overhear while two major public intellectuals of our time engage--personally, respectfully, honestly--in serious dialogue on questions of truth and understanding."" --Dirk J. Smit, Princeton Theological Seminary John Polkinghorne, KBE FRS (born in 1930) is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, became an ordained Anglican priest in 1982 and served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1988 to 1996. Michael Welker, (born in 1947) was a professor of theology at the German universities of Tubingen, Munster, and Heidelberg and frequently a guest professor in the Anglo-American world (McMaster, Princeton, Harvard, Emory, and Cambridge). He is an honorary professor at Seoul Theological University, senior professor at the University of Heidelberg, and director of its Research Center International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT). He has organized many international and interdisciplinary research projects that related theology and science, theology and law, theology and economy.

This book is the result of intensive, multiyear international and interdisciplinary cooperation. From many perspectives, the book's contributors address themes of freedom and slavery; self-determination and concepts of freedom; God-given and imprinted freedom; freedom as an ethos of belonging and solidarity; and relations between freedom, human rights, and theological orientation. ""Quests for Freedom is a brilliant examination of human freedom from the ancient biblical texts into our age. Written by eminent scholars from around the world, the book is helpfully divided into themes ranging from freedom and domination to the dialects of modernity. Anyone interested in the history of ideas about freedom, as well as contemporary accounts of freedom, will treasure this book."" --William Schweiker, The University of Chicago ""In this well-orchestrated and briskly-paced volume, nineteen leading theologians offer deep and diverse insights into the conditions, contexts, concepts, and categories of freedom in the Bible, and the liberating implications of these biblical teachings and practices for the ancient world and for our own. This is global interdisciplinary religious scholarship at its best."" --John Witte, Jr., Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University ""Quests for Freedom assembles a remarkable group of multi-disciplinary voices. The essays both enhance our understanding of freedom and challenge our deep-seated social prejudices that often deny freedom to those on the margins of society. At a moment in history when 'freedom' is increasingly abused for private and nationalistic gain, this collection stands as a reminder of our common humanity, and freedom as a public good."" --Piet Naude, Professor of Ethics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa ""What is freedom? Quests for Freedom does not only inform on a word that was used and waved as a banner of hope, it reminds the reader of the often bitter experiences of ordinary people with forms of slavery and suppression, old and new, but most important, it explores in an interdisciplinary way the avenues in which freedom not only is a wonderful idea, but becomes reality for ordinary people. Quests for Freedom exemplifies the way contemporary theology should be done: in interdisciplinary cooperation, using the sources of the Christian tradition, critical, realistic, and hopeful."" --Cornelis van der Kooi, Professor Emeritus Systematic Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Michael Welker has been a professor of theology at the Universities of Tubingen, Munster, and Heidelberg, and he has frequently been a guest professor in Britain, Canada, and the United States His many authored and edited books include God the Revealed (2014), The Depth of the Human Person (editor, 2014), and Faith in the Living God (second edition with John Polkinghorne, 2018).

"God revealed himself in Jesus Christ!" Christian faith has confessed and proclaimed this message for nearly two thousand years. But what does it really mean? In God the Revealed, Michael Welker delves into this declaration and shows how it offers genuine insight into Christian faith. He asks "Who is Jesus Christ for us today?" and approaches the answer from five different angles - the historical Jesus, the resurrection, the cross, the reign of Christ, and eschatology. Uniquely, Welker argues for the need to place historical Jesus research in a Christology and proposes a "Fourth Quest" for the historical Jesus.

Ist das Bemühen um einen Dialog zwischen Theologie und Naturwissenschaften heute noch sinnvoll? Oder haben sich die Wissensgebiete beider Seiten so weit voneinander entfernt, dass ihre Gegenstandsfelder und Erkenntnisformen keinerlei Berührung mehr zulassen? Zeitgenössische atheistische und agnostische Kritiker von Religion und Theologie - wie der Oxforder Evolutionsbiologe Richard Dawkins in seinem Bestseller The God Delusion ("Der Gotteswahn") - behaupten das: Solche Dialoginteressen würden nur verschleiern, dass Religion und Theologie gar keinen wissenschaftlich erschließbaren Gegenstandsbereich hätten. Der Dialog zwischen Theologie und Naturwissenschaften wurde in den letzten dreißig Jahren international vor allem in englischer Sprache geführt. Deshalb erscheint auch dieser Band auf Englisch. Er will zeigen, welche Beiträge die Theologie zu diesem Dialog leisten kann - nicht nur unter hoch spezialisierten Fachleuten, sondern auch an Universitäten und Schulen, in Gemeinden, Akademien und Gesprächskreisen. Die Theologie muss nicht nur falsche Wahrnehmungen und szientistisch-fundamentalistische Propaganda von außen korrigieren. Sie muss auch konstruktiv theologische Themen ins Gespräch einbringen, um Brücken zu bauen. Auf den Gebieten der Schöpfungslehre, der Eschatologie und der Anthropologie gibt dieses Buch dazu Impulse.

Das Buch entstand aus der Zusammenarbeit zwischen einem Kirchenhistoriker und einem Systematischen Theologen. Sie thematisieren die Fragen nach Ursprung, Charakter, Wirkung und gegenwärtiger Geltung der Reformation. Die Formulierung 'Potentiale der Freiheit' verweist als Plural auf die Vielfalt der Freiheitskonzeptionen der Reformation, die sowohl ihre Kohärenz als auch ihre Divergenzen erkennen lassen." Sie erstrecken sich im Namen des befreienden Evangeliums von der Glaubensfreiheit des Gewissens bis zur Freiheit von Leibeigenschaft. Sie sind einerseits im Spätmittelalter verankert und bedeuten andererseits einen tiefgehenden Bruch mit dem mittelalterlichen Sinngefüge von Kirche, Theologie, Frömmigkeit, Recht, Ökonomie und Gesellschaft. Der 'qualitative Sprung', mit dem die Reformationskirchen aus diesem Traditionsgefüge heraustraten, bestimmt den Protestantismus bis zum heutigen Tage." (Aus dem Vorwort)Das erste Kapitel handelt vom spannungsreichen Verhältnis der Reformation gegenüber der spätmittelalterlichen Kirchlichkeit und Religiosität. Im zweiten Kapitel geht es um die Einheit der Reformation in ihrer Vielfalt, wobei die 95 Thesen Luthers vom 31. Okt. 1517 besondere Beachtung finden. Das dritte Kapitel spannt den Bogen von der Historie zur Aktualität der reformatorischen Botschaft heute. Abschließend widmen sich die Autoren der Frage, wie der typisch reformatorische Bezug auf das alleinige Legitimationsprinzip der Bibel in gegenwärtige pluralistische Lebenszusammenhänge übersetzt werden kann.

Jurgen Moltmann's distinctive insights in trinitarian theology - especially about the relations within God and God's presence in creation - are revolutionary for theology and set the stage for these further explorations. The esteemed group of contributors in this volume probes new ways of understanding the triune character of God. Among the contributors are: Nicholas Constas Sarah A. Coakley Harvey G. Cox Jr. Lyle Dabney David Fergusson David H. Kelsey Daniel Migliore Gerald O'Collins John Polkinghorne William Schweiker Dirk Smit Bryan D. Spinks Kathryn Tanner Ronald F. Thiemann Miroslav Volf John Webster Nicholas Wolterstorff

Michael Welker erklärt das Abendmahl - kompakt, umfassend und allgemein verständlich. Facettenreich beantwortet er oft gestellte theologische und praktische Fragen zum Abendmahl. Was heißt: Christus ist im Abendmahl gegenwärtig? Was unterscheidet das christliche Abendmahl vom jüdischen Passamahl? Dürfen auch Kinder das Abendmahl mitfeiern? In diese komplett überarbeitete und aktuelle Auflage hat er auch eine Auseinandersetzung mit der päpstlichen Enzyklika "Ecclesia de Eucharistia" vom April 2003 aufgenommen.

A renowned theologian revisits the purpose and potential of communion. All the large churches in the world agree on this: communion is the highest expression of the church unity. Yet it is exactly the act of communion that historically has given rise to vehement controversies among the churches. This new book not only explores the meaning of holy communion but also marks a turning point on the way to common understanding. Welker gives a clear explanation of holy communion based on the biblical tradition and evaluates the ecumenical discourse on communion of the past thirty years. In the process he answers such often posed questions as "What do we mean when we say that Christ is present in communion?" "How are Christ’s body and blood connected with bread and wine?" "What is the difference between the Christian Supper and the Jewish Passover meal?" and "Are children allowed to share in communion?"

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