The present volume aims at a clarification and a discussion of the church in the 16th century: What did the reformers think about the essence and o...

The introduction of modern forestry in Tanzania during the German colonial period was accompanied by massive encroachments on the land use rights o...

"The earth is full of your creatures." The biblical creation narratives can astonish us and stimulate thoughts: Who am I? Where am I from? Or also:...

Biblical prehistory considers the origin of the world and its order, the origin of man and the origins of culture. It is an expression of the basic...

Claudio Moreschini focuses on selected and as yet still understudied aspects of Boethius' life and works. He presents Boethius in the culture of th...

One of the most significant, but often overlooked, interpreters during the Reformation was Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531), the first-generation...

This commentary on the comedy Aspis des Menander mainly deals with text-critical and linguistic questions. The introduction also deals with observa...

This is the first extensive study of William Ames‘s (1576-1633) Latin polemical writings against Arminianism during his exile in the Dutch Republic...

There is a growing body of historical literature on the importance of John Owen. Ryan M. McGraw seeks to reassess Owen’s theology in light of the w...

In this study of Christian eschatological thought, virtually no attention has been given to past interpretations of the biblical phrase the new hea...

The direct quotations in the letter to the Hebrews presumably go back to a template from the Septuagint, but have so far scarcely been explored. Ge...

Authentikos Logos (NHC VI,3), also known as Authoritative Teaching,is a little studied story of a soul’s descent and ascent in the Nag Hammadi libr...

Most commentators view the Epistle of Jude as a parenetic text. The commentary Expecting for the Mercy highlights its soteriological and Christolog...

Controversies regarding the authorship of the Letter of James, the date of its composition, its addressees and, when compared to other biblical wri...

On a primary level, the author seeks to answer the question, what is the best interpretation of, The Knowledge of Good and Evil, in Gen 2:9, 17; 3:...

Many people report extrasensory experiences such as encounters with the deceased, with ghosts or other spooky phenomena that they have had after or...

At the height of his effectiveness, the Dutch theologian, publicist and politician Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) gave the famous Stone Lectures in Pri...

The subject of this book is the understanding of the gospel in the theology of the Protestant Reformer John Calvin. Specifically, it deals with wha...

How did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's world-changing con...

Volume 1 includes the original Acta Authentica of the synod, here published for the first time. Following the Acta Authentica, the corresponding ac...