Metapher - Narratio - Mimesis - Doxologie

Zusatztext

The essays collected in this volume deal with the founding essentials of ancient Christian ethics - metaphor, narration, mimesis and doxology - and were delivered during the four symposiums of the 2012-2014 Mainz Moral Meetings. An interdisciplinary approach encompasses the forms in which Early Christianity constructed a specific ethos outside of explicit, rational-ethical reflection which still determines Western thinking today. The authors of the contributions examine the metaphors through which the ethical power of persuasion is derived, the implicit value-discourse of the "narrative-ethic," the conforming of the self to a person or ideal within the framework of a "mimetic-ethic" and finally the justification of action "doxology-ethic" which is offered as a speech act of praise and celebration. It is thereby shown that forms of speech do not just represent insignificant vehicles but also defining ethical mediums of expression for ethics.

Autorenportrait

Friedrich Wilhelm Horn (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1953; 1972-78 Studium der Ev. Theologie in Wuppertal und Göttingen; 1982 Promotion; 1990 Habilitation; seit 1996 Professor für Neues Testament an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Ulrich Volp (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1971; Universitätsprofessor für Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte (Schwerpunkt Alte Kirche) an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Ruben Zimmermann (Herausgegeben von) Born 1968; 1999 Dr. theol.; Professor of New Testament Studies at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz and Research Associate at the Department of Old and New Testament Studies, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

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