"God is unbounded. God became flesh. While these two assertions are equally viable parts of Western Christian religious heritage, they stand in tension with one another. Fearful of reducing God’s majesty with shallow anthropomorphisms, philosophy and religion affirm that God, as an eternal being, stands wholly apart from creation. Yet the legacy of the incarnation complicates this view of the incorporeal divine, affirming a very differe ..."
"Tension between unity and diversity plagues any attempt to recount the development of earliest Christianity. Explanations run the gamut--from asserting the presence of a fully formed and accepted unity at the beginning of Christianity to the hypothesis that understands orthodox unity as a later imposition upon Christianity by Rome. In Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire , Christoph Markschies seeks to unrav ..."
"This introduction to Gnosis by Christoph Markschies combines great clarity with immense learning.In his Introduction Markschies defines the term Gnosis and its relationship to 'Gnosticism', indicating why Gnosis is preferable and sketches out the main problems. He then treats the sources, both those in the church fathers and heresiologists, and the more recent Nag Hammadi finds. He goes on to discuss early forms of 'Gnosis' in antiquity ..."
"This short but highly significant study is the first real sequel to Professor Martin Hengel's classic and monumental work Judaism and Hellenism. It demonstrates from a wealth of evidence, much of it made readily available here for the first time, that in the New Testament period Hellenization was so widespread in Palestine that the usual distinction between 'Hellenistic' Judaism and `Palestinian' Judaism is not a valid one and that the ..."
The Monk's Haggadah(1st Edition) A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim (Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination) by Rabbi David Stern, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, ChristophMarkschies Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2015 by Penn State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-271-06399-7, ISBN: 0-271-06399-8
"In 1489, a magnificent illustrated Passover Haggadah was sent as a bequest to the Monastery of Saint Quirinus at Tegernsee in southern Germany. Shortly afterwards, the monastery s librarian sent the book to a Dominican friar named Erhard von Pappenheim, a Hebraist and expert on Jewish practice, and asked him to write a prologue. In response, Erhard wrote a remarkable treatise that is arguably the earliest quasi-ethnographic account of J ..."
Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier The Christian Apocrypha from North American Perspectives: Proceedings from the 2013 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium by Tony Burke, ChristophMarkschies Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2015 by Cascade Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4982-0982-3, ISBN: 1-4982-0982-3
"North American study of the Christian Apocrypha is known principally for its interest in using noncanonical texts to reconstruct the life and teachings of Jesus, and for its support of Walter Bauer's theory on the development of early Christianity. The papers in this volume, presented in September 2013 at York University in Toronto, challenge that simplistic assessment by demonstrating that U.S. and Canadian scholarship on the Christian ..."
Gnosis an Introduction by ChristophMarkschies 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury T&T Clark ISBN-13: 978-0-567-66935-3, ISBN: 0-567-66935-1
"This is followed with an outline of the main representatives and key figures of gnosis, especially Valentinus and Marcion."
God's Body Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Images of God by ChristophMarkschies 632 Pages, Published 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-4813-1172-4, ISBN: 1-4813-1172-7
"In God's Body Markschies traces the shape of the divine form in late antiquity. This exploration follows the development of ideas of God's corporeality in Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions."
"In Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire, Christoph Markschies seeks to unravel the complex problem of unity and diversity by carefully examining the institutional settings for the development of Christian ..."
"An Introduction Christoph Markschies. Preface. 'Gnosis' always seems to be
topical. Yet hardly anyone knows precisely what is meant by it, and many wise
people understand quite different things by it. Some radically restrict the term to a
small group of ancient Jews, Christians and pagans, while others interpret '
gnosis' as a world religion or secret 'undercurrent' throughout religious history
and the history of ideas; and yet othe ..."
"The aim of this book is to consider and set out a theological basis for Christian ethics in today's world.Starting with an examination of our world, Colwell considers the impact of Modernism and Post-Modernism on ethics, before going on to explore the Scriptural basis for an authentic Christian ethic. He then asks how this ethic manifests itself in the Church, and considers, finally, how Christian ethics might be coherent and persuasive ..."
"1980. Theissen, Gerd: The First Followers of Jesus, London 1978. Thraede,
Klaus: 'Soziales Verhalten und Wohlfahrtspflege in der griechisch-romischen
Antike (spate Republik und friihe Kaiserzeit)', in G. K. Schafer and T. Strohm (eds.
), Diakonie - biblische Grundlagen und Orientierungen, Veroffentlichungen des
diakoniewissenschaftlichen Instituts an der Universitat Heidelberg 2, Heidelberg
1990, 4-63. Troeltsch, Ernst: The Social T ..."
"Ausgehend von der traditionsreichen Berliner Wissenschaftsakademie, ehemals Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften, wird in diesem Buch auf ungewöhnliche Weise große Wissenschaftsgeschichte erzählt: Von Leibniz, dem Universalgenie und Akademiegründer, bis hin zu den renommierten Repräsentanten der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, seien es Albert Einstein und Max Planck, Lise Meitner und Otto Hahn, Theodor Mommsen und Heinrich vo ..."
"Parvus mundus, Frankfurt a.M. 1644, 1v. - Für die Unterstützung bei der
Beschaffung einer Abbildung des Titelblatts dieses seltenen Traktats danke ich
Andreas Pietzsch (Münster). 39 L. van Haecht Goidtsenhoven, Parvus mundus (
wie Anm."
Die Gnosis(4th Edition) (Beck'sche Reihe) by ChristophMarkschies Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2018 by C.H.Beck ISBN-13: 978-3-406-72737-5, ISBN: 3-406-72737-9
Adolf Deissmann Ein (Zu Unrecht) Fast Vergessener Theologe Und Philologe (Novum Testamentum, Supplements) (German and English Edition) by Cilliers Breytenbach, ChristophMarkschies Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-39018-8, ISBN: 90-04-39018-9
"The chapters in this volume cover all aspects of the work of Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937). Following his main works, the authors highlight crucial aspects and impulses from his philological work on the New Testament, including the interpretation of Paul, Light from the Ancient East, the social status of the first Christians, and the lexicography of the New Testament. His background in the Lutheran Church of Hessen-Nassau, his contributio ..."
"... Kapuzinerkirche, Eichstätt, aus: ebd., 194 | 81: Mendrea-Fotoarchiv, Jerusalem
/Foto: Dinu Mendrea | 94: Aus: C. Fossati: Die Hagia Sophia, ... Staatsbibliothek,
Archiv Heinrich Hoffmann | 441: Zentralkomitee der dt. ... Lang, Paderborn | 537:
Archiv der Ev. Kirche im Rheinland/Foto: Hans Lachmann | 550: H. Wolf, Münster
| 559: Ingolf Pompe/LOOK- foto | 565: ... ÖKT/Foto: Laurent Burst | 570: akg-
images/Jost Schilgen | 573: Alex ..."
Valentinus Gnosticus?(1st Edition) Untersuchungen Zur Valentinianischen Gnosis Mit Einem Kommentar Zu Den Fragmenten Valentins (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament) by ChristophMarkschies, Vice President Christoph Hardcover, 516 Pages, Published 1992 by Mohr Siebeck ISBN-13: 978-3-16-145993-1, ISBN: 3-16-145993-8
"The Nag Hammadi Library in English, translated by Members of the Coptic
Gnostic Library Project ofthe Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, J. M. Robinson
, Director. Leiden *1984. translated and introduced by Members of the Coptic
Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont,
California, J. M. Robinson, General Editor, 3“, completely revised Ed. with an
afterword by R. Smith, Leiden, New Yo ..."