Bücher von Michael Welker

Pluralism has become the defining characteristic of many modern societies. Not only a plurality of individual and social claims and activities gain impacts on societal life. A creative pluralism of institutions and their norms profoundly shape our moral commitments and character - notably the family, the market, the media, and systems of law, religion, politics, research, education, health care, and defense.In the theoretical, empirical, and historical contributions to this volume, specialists on medicine, medical ethics, psychology, theology and health care discuss the many challenges that major transformations in their areas of expertise pose to the communication and orientation in late modern pluralistic societies. Contributors come from Germany, the USA and Australia.

In seinen Gifford Lectures 2019/2020 geht Michael Welker dem Wirken des göttlichen und des menschlichen Geistes in unseren spätmodernen pluralistischen Kulturen nach. Unter Rückgriff nicht nur auf religiöse Quellen, sondern auch auf Erfahrungen im Dialog mit Vertretern der Naturwissenschaften, Rechtswissenschaften, der Philosophie und der Soziologie gewinnt er Einsichten in das multimodale Wirken des Geistes. Während zahlreiche Entwicklungen der Menschheitsgeschichte die Bestimmung der Menschen zum Bild Gottes höchst fragwürdig werden lassen, erschließt der multimodale Geist der Gerechtigkeit, der Freiheit, der Wahrheit und des Friedens die Kräfte, die Leben gemäß der Bestimmung zum Bild Gottes ermöglichen.Dieser neue Zugang zu einer natürlichen Theologie macht deutlich, warum der menschliche und der göttliche Geist nicht angemessen in bipolaren Beziehungen zu erfassen sind und der menschliche Geist nicht auf das Denken reduziert werden darf. Das Buch möchte verdeutlichen, was die Bestimmung des Menschen zu Gottes Bild besagt - ein Leben geprägt vom Geist der Gerechtigkeit, der Freiheit, der Wahrheit und des Friedens.[On the Image of God. An Anthropology of the Mind]In his Gifford Lectures 2019/2020 Michael Welker explores the workings of the divine and human spirit in our late modern pluralistic cultures. Drawing not only on religious sources but also on experiences in dialogue with representatives of the natural sciences, law, philosophy and sociology, he gains insights into the multimodal workings of the spirit. While numerous developments in the history of mankind make its determination to be in the image of God highly questionable, the multimodal spirit of justice, freedom, truth and peace opens up the forces that make life possible according to this determination.This new approach to a natural theology makes clear why the human and divine spirit cannot be adequately grasped in bipolar relationships and why the human spirit cannot be reduced to thinking. The book seeks to clarify what the determination of the human being to be in the image of God means - a life marked by the spirit of justice, freedom, truth and peace.

"God revealed himself in Jesus Christ!" Christian faith has confessed and proclaimed this message for nearly two thousand years. But what does it really mean?In God the Revealed Michael Welker delves into this declaration and shows how it offers genuine insight into Christian faith. He asks "Who is Jesus Christ for us today?" and approaches the answer from five different angles -- the historical Jesus, the resurrection, the cross, the reign of Christ, and eschatology. Uniquely, Welker argues for the need to place historical Jesus research in a Christology and proposes a "Fourth Quest" for the historical Jesus.