Insights into the Christian Office in Late Antiquity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Inhalt vii
3. Preface ix
4. The Talmudic Rabbi as Holy Man 1
5. Offices? Roles, Functions, Authorities and Their Ethos in Earliest Christianity: A Look into the World of Pauline Communities 23
6. Insights into the Christian Office in Late Antiquity 41
7. Men of Knowledge and Power: A Tentative Profile of Medieval Rabbis 55
8. Change or Continuity? How the Reformation Changed the Role of the Pastor 67
9. Modern Rabbinical Training: Intercultural Invention and Political Reconfiguration 83
10. Rabbis as Preachers, 1800–1965: Regensburg Conference Lecture 111
11. The Professionalization of the American Rabbinate 129
12. The Protestant Pastoral Office: Its Self-Understanding and Its Challenges Today 157
13. Whom Does the Priest Represent? The Theology of the Ordained Ministry Following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) 185
14. The Protestant Pastor and the Communication of the Gospel: Public Ministry in the Present Protestant Church 203
15. A Female Rabbi Is Like an Orange on the Passover Plate. Women and the Rabbinate: Challenges and Horizons 219
16. Functional Secularization and Conversion: On the Changed Demands Made on Ministerial Action in the Catholic Church 241
17. Islamic Clerics: Tradition and Transition 257
18. “… Invited to Preach to the People” (Origen): A Theological Plea for “Lay” Preaching in the Catholic Church 277
19. Word Workers: The Rabbinate and the Protestant Pastoral Office in Dialogue 303
20. The Modern Community Rabbi in Germany: Towards the Development of a Contemporary Occupational Profile 327
21. List of Contributors 355
22. Index of Abbreviations 359
23. Index of Names 361
24. Index of Subjects 373