Christoph Galle – författare

Als öffentliche Reden bewegen sich Predigten stets in den kulturellen und politischen Kontexten ihrer Zeit. Wie unter einem Brennglas lässt sich darum an ihnen das komplexe Verhältnis der christlichen Religion zur Sphäre des Politischen studieren. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes nehmen dabei die Wandlungen in den Blick, die dieses Verhältnis von der Zeit Karls des Großen bis zur Gegenwart genommen hat. Die Erforschung der Predigtgeschichte wird dabei als dezidiert interdisziplinäres Projekt begriffen. Wie Predigten stets über das rein Binnenreligiöse hinausgreifen, so bedarf die Predigtforschung eines multiperspektivischen Zugriffs: Theologie und Politologie, Geschichts-, Literatur- und Sozialwissenschaften können je eigene Interessen und eigene Zugänge zum Phänomen Predigt geltend machen.Being public speeches, sermons always act within the cultural and political contexts and frameworks of their time. Like under a magnifying glass, they grant insight into the complex relationship between the Christian religion and the political sphere. The articles in this volume focus on the changes that this relationship has undergone from the time of Charlemagne to the present day. Research in sermon-history is thereby understood as a decidedly interdisciplinary project. Just as sermons always go beyond the purely internal religious matters, research on sermons requires a multi-perspective approach: theology and political science, historical, literary and social studies can each assert their own interests and their own approaches to the phenomenon of sermon.

The Opus arduum valde is a Latin commentary on the Book of Revelation, written in England by an unknown scholarly author in the years 1389–1390. The book originated from the early Wycliffite movement and reflects its experience of persecution in apocalyptic terms. In England it soon fell into oblivion, but was adopted by radical exponents of the fifteenth-century Bohemian Hussites. In the sixteenth century Luther obtained a copy of the Opus arduum valde which he had printed in Wittenberg with his own preface in 1528. This remarkable document of religious dissent in late medieval Europe, highly regarded in Lollard and Hussite studies, is now for the first time made available in a critical edition.

The Opus arduum valde is a Latin commentary on the Book of Revelation, written in England by an unknown scholarly author in the years 1389-1390. The book originated from the early Wycliffite movement and reflects its experience of persecution in apocalyptic terms. In England it soon fell into oblivion, but was adopted by radical exponents of the fifteenth-century Bohemian Hussites. In the sixteenth century Luther obtained a copy of the Opus arduum valde which he had printed in Wittenberg with his own preface in 1528. This remarkable document of religious dissent in late medieval Europe, highly regarded in Lollard and Hussite studies, is now for the first time made available in a critical edition.