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Research Activities at the Faculty
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Reports of the Institutes and Departments
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Research Activities at the Faculty
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The research activities of the Faculty of Theology comprise personal research
projects by faculty, research programs within postgraduate studies supervised by
faculty, and co-operation with other departments and universities.
In 1999, 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 middle Germany (1650-1820) and the correspondence of
Gottsched (together with the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig)
- Participation in SFB (Collaborative research centre) 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"
Current research projects are as follows:
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Institute of Old Testament Studies
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- 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
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Institute of New Testament Studies
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- 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
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Institute of Church History
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- 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 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 SFB 417 "Regionally-oriented Identification Processes: The Case of
Saxony"
- Church and territorial history in Saxony
- 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.
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Institute of Systematic Theology
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- Questions of ecumenical theology; primarily ecumenical ecclesiology
- Fundaments 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
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Institute of Practical Theology
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- Religion and biography
- Pastoral psychology in GDR
- 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
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Institute of Religious Education
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- 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
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Liturgical Institute at the Faculty of Theology
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- 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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