Roman imperial iconography and the social construction of early Christian identity

Issue topic: Festschrift in honour of Erwin Buck

Picturing Paul against empire: the Gospel of the apostle to the gentiles in imperial perspective

Presented at Vancouver School of Theology, 14 N 2005

Serbian Jerusalem: Religious Nationalism, Globalization and the Invention of a Holy Land in Europe\u27s Periphery, 1985-2017

According to beliefs of religious nationalism, a nation is a community of ancestors and descendants, dead and living, past and present. As such, it incorporates within its territory all past and present markers of nationhood, notably historic religious monuments as the physical evidence of the perennial existence of the religious and ethnic community that is, in the nationalist imagination, of the nation. Thus, the history of the shrines and monuments, as told in religious tales and preserved in the rituals, is the history of the nation. In many parts of the world, contesting claims to consecrated territories clash. The struggles evolve into holy wars between good and evil and angels and demons. The enmity cemented by religion does not end until demythologization of history or until one side or the other has been destroyed. At the same time, in a globalized world, narratives of ethnic and religious nationalisms are no longer isolated from each other as they used to be. In recent decades, they have observed each other and borrowed and influenced one another. The case under consideration comparatively observes the conflicts in Kosovo in the Balkan and in Israel-Palestine in order to critically examine the nationalist and religious politics behind the nationalist discourses on history and religion, the past and the present, and the sacred and the secular

Communicative rationality in the standardization of legal relevant criminal conduct

Abstract/Keywords: Theory of communicative action, ontology of the sentence, systems, subsystems, role, function, crime of breach of duty, compensation, general and special prevention, rule of law, breach of communicative rationality, institutional rivalry and competition for organization, lord of the fact, the duty of guarantor, facticity and validity, counterfactual assertion, public use of reason, prosecution, transcendental ego, self, idealism, voyage, cognitive subject, object of knowledge, hermeneutics of criminal conduct and public servan

Paul's conception of the atonement

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Kingship and divinity - The unpublished Frazer Lecture, Oxford, 28 October 1982

This is the final published article. It first appeared at http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau1.1.012/17