{"title":"Kurt Bangert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. theol. Kurt Bangert\u003c\/strong\u003e studied theology in Germany and the United States (B.A. and M.A.) and received his doctorate in systematic theology from the University of Marburg. For much of his professional life, he worked as an expert for development cooperation and public relations before returning to theology and becoming an author of 20 books and countless articles – on questions of theology, Islam, poverty, and children’s rights. He is currently the editor of “Freies Christentum,” a magazine for liberal theology.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"muhammad-and-the-origin-of-islam-kurt-bangert-ebook","title":"Muhammad and the Origin of Islam","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe understand a religion best if we know its origin. Unfortunately, the traditional narrative about the emergence of Islam is based upon sources most of which were written some 150 to 250 years after the events they claim to describe. From a modern historical-critical point of view such late sources only document what people believed at the time when these sources were written, but do not necessarily tell us what actually happened 150 to 250 years earlier. But are there no contemporary sources of the seventh century? In fact, there are! But these exist mostly in the form of official inscriptions such as those in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. This book looks at such inscriptions and shows that they tell us a very different story of the origin of Islam, when compared to the traditional narrative. They seem to indicate that Muhammad was a construct that emerged at the end of the seventh century and whose biography was further developed in the following decades and centuries through questionable reports many of which were invented by different schools of jurisprudence. At the end of his book, the author offers an alternative narrative about the emergence of Islam that differs substantially from the traditional story but is in keeping with modern Orientalist research.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kurt Bangert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53628112896327,"sku":"9783658507077","price":69.54,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/5455\/2903\/files\/muhammad-and-the-origin-of-islam-ebook.webp?v=1775016082"},{"product_id":"the-social-question-kurt-bangert-ebook","title":"The Social Question","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis socio-historical monograph compares the two theologians Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) and Martin Rade (1857–1940) in a transatlantic juxtaposition, with a particular focus on the political and social dimensions of their thought and work. Both theologians belonged to the liberal spectrum of their respective churches and countries, and both emphasized the political-social dimension of the Christian gospel and the responsibility of their churches for society that arises from the kerygma. Walter Rauschenbusch, from a German Lutheran family, is considered the father of the Social Gospel, which gained significant resonance in American churches during the industrialization period before World War I. For Rauschenbusch, the gospel of the Kingdom of God had to have practical social and political consequences. Martin Rade was a theology professor in Marburg and, at times, a member of the German Democratic Party in the Prussian State Assembly. For him, political and social engagement was a necessary task of theology and the church. As editor of the liberal Protestant biweekly journal \u003cem\u003eDie Christliche Welt\u003c\/em\u003e, he regularly addressed church-political, Christian-social, and cultural-political issues over four decades. Following an introduction outlining the methodology and research questions, the study first provides historical contextualizations: economic history, social policy, theological history, and social ethics. In this context, American and German social Protestantism are compared. The core comparison between the two figures includes their biographies, major publications, central concerns, and a chapter examining their theology, their understanding of the Kingdom of God, and their social-political commitments. A separate chapter offers a more detailed comparison of several specific aspects: (1) The question of war and peace, (2) The plight and rights of workers, (3)Women's and minority rights. Finally, the concerns of Rauschenbusch and Rade are related to current social inequalities in the USA and Germany, and the present-day social-political conditions in both countries are examined in light of their thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kurt Bangert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53651036832071,"sku":"9783658491598","price":117.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/5455\/2903\/files\/the-social-question-ebook-cover.webp?v=1775325526"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/5455\/2903\/collections\/kurt-bangert-autor-kollektion.webp?v=1775016080","url":"https:\/\/www.cinebuch.de\/collections\/kurt-bangert.oembed","provider":"CineBuch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}