Research Activities at the Faculty
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The research activities of the Faculty of Theology comprise
personal research projects by faculty, research programmes within postgraduate
studies supervised by faculty, and co-operation with other departments
and universities.
In 2000, several research projects were continued in traditional areas
of the Faculty of Theology. Research was performed in:
- Ancient Hebrew (Institute of Old Testament Studies)
- The history of the Reformation, Christian archaeology and Christian
art, modern church history and regional church history (Institute
of Church History)
- The history and literature of Judaism (Research Centre Judaism)
New projects focusing on the Septuagint and pseudo-epigraphy have been
started following the appointment of a new professor of New Testament
Studies.
In addition to the above, other research activities are described in
the following periodicals and serials: Lutherjahrbuch, Lutherbibliographie;
Die Herberge der Christenheit; Zeitschrift für Althebraistik; Mitteilungen
und Beiträge der Forschungsstelle Judentum; Beiträge zur Spiritualität
und Liturgie, and Arbeiten zur Theologie- und Kirchengeschichte.
The following projects include other academic institutions:
- The edition of the political correspondence of Moritz, Duke and
Elector of Saxony, is part of the extensive project "Sources
and Research into the History of Saxony" (together with the Saxon
Academy of Sciences, Leipzig)
- Learned societies in central Germany (1650–1820) and the correspondence
of Gottsched (together with the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig)
- Participation in Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich)
417 "Regionally-oriented Identification Processes: The Case of
Saxony", which includes two special projects as well as the project
"Theological Aspects of Research into J.S. Bach"
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Key Areas of Research
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Current research projects are as follows:
Institute of Old Testament Studies
- Narratology and new literary criticism
- Post-exile wisdom literature (Job and Kohelet)
- Post-exile prophecy (Haggai, Zachariah, Jonah)
- Research into Chronicles
- Interrelationship between Old Testament historiography and theology
- Deuteronomy
- Ezra and Nehemiah
- Ancient Hebrew
- History of Old Testament studies
- Origins of monotheism
- History and literature of Judaism
Institute of New Testament Studies
- Investigations into Konstantin von Tischendorf
- Research on Paul
- Research on the Parables of Jesus
- Research on the Pastorals
- Research on the historic Jesus
- Early Judaism and the New Testament
- Pseudo-epigraphy
- Research on the Septuagint
Institute of Church History
Department of the Late Middle Ages and Reformation
Research on the history of the Reformation including the edition
of the Lutherjahrbuch, Lutherbibliographie, a study edition of Martin
Luther and how the Wittenbergian reformers are understood and taken
note of.
Department of Regional Church History
- Edition of the political correspondence of Moritz, Duke and Elector
of Saxony
- Church and regional consciousness between the 16th and late-19th
centuries within Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 417 "Regionally-oriented
Identification Processes: The Case of Saxony"
- Church and territorial history in Saxony
- Biographies of Saxon pastors (Sächsisches Pfarrerverzeichnis)
- Patrocinium research in Saxony
- History of the University of Leipzig and the Faculty of Theology
Department of Modern and Contemporary Church History
- Studies of church history of the 19th and 20th centuries; research
on Friedrich Schleiermacher, Adolph von Harnack and the role of
the Church during the Weimar Republic and in East Germany
- Protestantism and culture in Germany from the period of Enlightenment
to the mid-20th century
Department of Christian Archaeology and Christian Art
- Investigations into church architecture in different periods
The year book of regional church history Herbergen der Christenheit
is edited in collaboration with the working group Saxon Church History.
Institute of Systematic Theology
- Questions of ecumenical theology; primarily ecumenical ecclesiology
- Foundations of christology, primarily in connection with biblical
studies
- Theological aspects of research on J.S. Bach
- Theological basic research in the areas of language analysis, theory
of epistemology, theory of truth, and the role of religion and church
in the context of secularisation
- Investigations into social-ethical questions
Institute of Practical Theology
- Religion and biography
- Pastoral psychology in East Germany
- Investigation into church growth and religious education
- Analyses of religiosity and missing religiosity in East Germany
- Pastoral care in the context of lost Christian traditions and secularisation
Institute of Religious Education
- Investigations into children's formation of faith
- Intuitive religious theories of children
- Empirical studies of the image of God promulgated by teachers of
religious education at state schools
- The use of digital media in the planning of teaching processes
- Empirical studies of the self-conception of teachers who teach religious
and moral education in public schools
- Empirical studies of religious conceptualisation
- Religious education in the information society
- Investigations into how children assimilate biblical stories
Liturgical Institute at the Faculty of Theology
- Short services as a problem and a challenge to arrange
- Eucharist prayer – structure and the understanding of sacrifice
- Didactics of liturgy
- Renewed liturgy
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