Oliver Schuegraf – författare

The Community of the Cross of Nails came into being as a result of the bombing of Coventry Cathedral in November 1940. Amid the destruction, two medieval nails were found lying in the shape of a cross – seen as a prophetic sign for the need of forgiveness and reconciliation, the people of Coventry offered forgiveness to the people of Germany at Christmas, just weeks after the bombing. Today, the Community of the Cross of Nails has 160 centres in 40 countries, working and praying to build peace, heal the wounds of history and enable people to grow together in hope through conferences, teaching in schools and prisons, and pilgrimages. This illustrated book tells its remarkable story from the beginning. It is also a work of contextual theology, offering reflection on the meaning of reconciliation in the contemporary world and relating experiences of imaginative forgiveness from Cape Town to Ground Zero. Published as part of Coventry Cathedral’s golden jubilee celebrations, this celebrates its continuing ministry of reconciliation.

The story of The Community of the Cross of Nails, born from the bombing of Coventry Cathedral in 1940. Today, it works in 40 countries to build peace, heal the wounds of history and enable people to grow together in hope. This illustrated guide tells its remarkable story from the beginning, reflecting on the meaning of reconciliation today.

Dieser Band macht die Ergebnisse der Tagung "Reform im Katholizismus" – veranstaltet von der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche Deutschlands und der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing – einer größeren Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Zunächst wird grundsätzlich der Frage nachgegangen, wie in der Römisch-katholischen Kirche Kontinuität und Innovation austariert sind, welche Formen und Instanzen des Umgangs mit Diskontinuität sie entwickelt hat und wie sie Traditionstreue und Veränderung miteinander zu verbinden sucht. Diese Grundsatzfragen werden jeweils aus katholischer und evangelischer Perspektive beleuchtet. In einem zweiten Teil wird die Frage nach Wandlungsprozessen anhand ausgewählter Fallstudien weiter vertieft.Mit Beiträgen von Christine Axt-Piscalar, Michael Beintker, Martin Bräuer, Wanda Deifelt, Peter De Mey, Theodor Dieter, Margarethe Hopf, Tina Huhtanen, Kathryn Johnson, Michael Karger, Dominique-Marcel Kosack, Karl Kardinal Lehmann, Friederike Nüssel, Bernd Oberdorfer, Johanna Rahner, Karlheinz Ruhstorfer, Oliver Schuegraf, Thomas Söding, Magnus Striet, Bertram Stubenrauch, Wolfgang Thönissen, Günther Wassilowsky, Gunther Wenz und Myriam Wijlens.[Reform within Catholicism. Faithfulness to Tradition and Change within Roman-Catholic Theology and Church]These proceedings offer the results of the conference "Reform in Catholicism" – organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany and the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing. In a first part, the fundamental questions are raised how continuity and innovation are balanced in the Roman Catholic Church, which forms and instances of dealing with discontinuity it has developed, and how it tries to interconnect change and loyalty to tradition. These issues are illuminated from a Catholic and Protestant perspective. In a second part, the question of transformation processes is further deepened by selected case studies.

Week for week preachers are faced with the task of helping their listeners to read the Bible with its wide range of different texts. The so-called dualities of law and gospel, faith and works, old and new covenant, promise and fulfilment are a key to understanding these texts. They have long been taken in the Lutheran churches as an aid to understanding the Bible. However, they have often been misunderstood and in particular used as criticism of Jewish theology.This manual deals openly with this history of interpretation. It encourages a contemporary and critical approach to the dualities by describing their different theological backgrounds and illuminating their significance for the present. It explains how the dualities can encourage a lively preaching culture that combines theological understanding of the Bible with an interpretation that is suitable for the contemporary situation.The book was written in the context of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany and supplemented by a preface for the English-language edition.

Was heißt »Lehre« in den lutherischen Kirchen? Woran orientiert sie sich? Wie entsteht Verbindlichkeit? Welche Instanzen und Prozesse der Lehrbeurteilung haben sich entwickelt? Wer kann Lehrfragen wie entscheiden? Die vorliegende Studie stellt zunächst gegenwärtige Strukturen der Lehrverständigung im deutschen Luthertum dar und entfaltet exemplarisch historische Fallstudien lutherischer Lehrverantwortung (Bultmann-Kontroverse; Frauenordination; Apartheid; Rechtfertigungslehre). Ein zweiter Teil skizziert die Entstehung lutherischer Lehr- und Bekenntnisnormen im 16. Jh. und verfolgt im historischen Längsschnitt die Entwicklung von Konzepten kirchlicher Lehrverbindlichkeit bis in die Gegenwart. Abschließende Thesen erschließen die Relevanz lutherischer Lehrverantwortung für die ökumenischen Dialoge.[Doctrinal Responsibility – a Lutheran Perspective]What does »doctrine« mean in Lutheran churches? What is it based upon? How is it made binding? What instances and processes of doctrinal judgment have developed? Who can decide doctrinal questions and how? This study first presents current structures of doctrinal understanding in German Lutheranism and unfolds exemplary historical case studies of Lutheran doctrinal responsibility (Bultmann controversy; ordination of women; apartheid; doctrine of justification). A second part outlines the emergence of Lutheran doctrinal and confessional norms in the 16th century and traces the development of concepts of ecclesial doctrinal commitment in a historical cross-section up to the present. Concluding theses explore the relevance of Lutheran doctrinal responsibility for ecumenical dialogues.