Dorothea Sattler - Böcker

2022 Catholic Media Association first place award in gender issues - inclusion in the churchRegarding the question of office in the Christian churches, this volume illuminates with heightened ecumenical sensitivity the arguments for the participation of women in all church offices and ministries, without which there will be no way to the visible unity of the churches. It documents the ecumenical congress that took place in Osnabrück in December 2017 and the “Osnabrück theses”—meant to serve the future international and ecumenical conversation and further discussion about the questions of women in church offices—passed by the congress.The editors hope that this publication will help to set into motion a debate about ministries and services in the Church, which has been stagnant for a long time, and that it will become clear that these questions can only be answered together—by men and women—from now on.

The volume aims to trace the origins of the discourse of hell in the Bible and in its literary environment, and in doing so to show the historical lines of tradition from antiquity to the present day. In doing so, he asks what ethical implications the talk of hell has and how it is compatible with God's universal will of salvation in the face of the power of evil: What is the connection between the threat of hell and man's readiness to repent? How can we speak of 'hell' in the context of the (apparent) tension between God's justice and mercy, between the election and rejection of creatures? What justification is there for the hope of a reconciliation of all creatures at the end of days? What eschatological expectations of a place of permanent distance from God require constructive theological criticism? And what resonance and relevance do notions of hell have in today's world and culture?