Simon Gerber

• Privatdozent
• Scientific collaborator at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Die beständige Thätigkeit im Schriftverständniß muß zu den natürlichen Lebensbewe-gungen in der Evangelischen Kirche gehören und diese Thätigkeit muß in verschiednen Graden vonSpontaneitätund Receptivität so weit verbreitet sein, wie möglich." So sagt es Schleiermacher in einer Vorlesung über die praktische Theologie.¹ Das beständige, freie Forsche...

sthetische Probleme des Gottesdienstes nach SchleiermachersPraktischer Theologie 1. Der Kultus alsW erk der Kunst Washat der Geistliche im Kultus der Gemeinde zu tun?Ersoll sich vorder Gemeinde religiös betätigen, und diese sich zugleich nach außen darstellendereligiöse Tätigkeit soll das Mittel sein,die religiöse Tätigkeit aller anderen zu erhöhen...

When Martin Luther published his Smalcald Articles in 1538, Georg Witzel, who had returned to the Catholic party some years earlier, offered a polemic response; Luther and his sect, he wrote, did not heal but rather exacerbated the schism.The two foci of Witzel's Anti-Luther, the continuity with the undivided, original, and apostolic church and the...

This article is a report from the edition of Schleiermacher’s correspondence within the critical Schleiermacher edition (Kritische Gesamtausgabe, KGA) and puts forth a surprising revision which was discovered during work on vol. 10 (1808-1810): with the exception of one letter the letters from Schleiermacher’s sister-in-law and friend of Ernst-Mori...

In Schleiermacher's thought, according to romanticism, history and historical evolution can only be understood as the revelation and realisation of an idea within empiric world. At the end of this evolution there will be the identity of Geist (mind, spirit) and nature, idea and reality. – For Schleiermacher church history ist the middle discipline...

This miscelle deals with the quotations from the gospels in the Syriac version of Theodore of Mopsuestia's catechetical homilies. Many of these quotations correspond with Syriac gospel texts that are earlier than Peshitta. In one passage of Homily 14 a mixed quotation from the gospels could also be infl uenced by the old Gospel Harmony “Diatessaron...

This essay deals with Friedrich Schleiermacher's readings on ecclesiastical geography and statistics that will be published soon for the first time as volume II/16 of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe. For Schleiermacher the ecclesiastical statistics were the last part of historical theology; he developped this subject to describe the present state of th...

In the Monarchian controversy of the beginning third century the Roman bishop Calixtus evolved his own kind of monarchianism taking in elements of Theodotian, Noetian, Praxean, and Sabellian doctrine and of stoicism. Calixtus defined in a respectively different way, wherein the unity and binity of the one Father-Son-God consists before and after in...