Religious Studies

The precise nature of the σῶμα πνευματικόν (the enspirited body) remains a mystery. John Granger Cook shows that the context of the expression in Paul warrants the following conclusion: the contention in some of modern scholarship that the enspirited body is entirely non-physical is unjustified.

Based on the ongoing controversy between systematic theology and Old Testament exegesis, Christoph Levin provides a concise overview of the changed picture of the religious history of Israel and Judah as it emerges from the latest findings of biblical scholarship.

Responding to the cultural crises occasioned by World War I, the German intellectuals Adolf von Harnack and Werner Jaeger acted as leading representatives of the humanities and sought to assert the enduring significance of ancient wisdom and humanistic scholarship for the budding Weimar Republic.

The Gospel according to John has a thoroughly juridical character. John reenacts and corrects verdicts against Jesus in trials before Jewish and Roman courts. The issue is judging according to appearance or righteously, which permeates practically his entire Gospel. Stephen C. Amador shows how John establishes Jesus as the righteous King who is justified before the heavenly council and justifies all who believe in him.