Highlight: Internationalisation - the current challenge for German Universities

Abstract Groups of pastors in Siebenbürgen issued three confessions of faith between 1557 and 1572 – the Consensus Doctrinae (1557), the Brevis Confessio (1561), and the Formula pii consensus (1572) – in which they defended their view of the Lord’s Supper in line with Wittenberg teaching against medieval teaching and against challenges from Swiss Reformed theologians. These documents reflect both conditions in Siebenbürgen and the streams of thinking in the wider environment of Luther’s and Melanchthon’s followers. The Brevis Confessio was published with memoranda from four German universities and letters from several theologians supporting its formulations. The first two documents largely tend toward Luther’s expression of the doctrine of the real presence, while the third uses language employed by both Wittenberg teachers, avoiding controversial expressions. This last confession strives toward consensus among the followers of the Wittenberg preceptors.

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Externalizing Faith: Countering Individualism Through an Embodied Emphasis

Studia Liturgica ◽

10.1177/0039320720981172 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 86-102

Author(s):

Dejan Aždajić

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Theological Reflection ◽

Propositional Content ◽

Religious Knowledge ◽

Current Challenge ◽

Strategic Approach ◽

Embodied Theology

While the importance of an embodied theology has been recognized, in light of recent literature that sees a growing modern-day shift from emancipated individuality to ideological individualism, the aim of this article is to deepen the theological reflection on the urgent need for a more intentional embodied emphasis. This strategic approach is particularly significant, since in spite of the current challenge there remains a tendency toward a disembodied, anti-liturgical orientation that prioritizes words and cognition, locating theological truth on the inside of the autonomous individual thinking subject, who remains free to either accept or reject its propositional content. Drawing from relevant literature that provides a conceptual framework, this article argues that especially in today’s context, an overt emphasis on the externalization of faith and the embodiment of theological normatives performed together in community offers more promising pedagogical effectiveness. A bodily focus is principally important since it provides an experiential platform for the communal enactment and consequent appropriation of religious knowledge, thus potentially circumventing the present challenge of increasingly rigid individualism.

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THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES TODAY

Higher Education Quarterly ◽

10.1111/j.1468-2273.1959.tb00093.x ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 145-151

Author(s):

G. R. POTTER

Keyword(s):

German Universities

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Communicative constructions of space in epistemic asymmetry: The case of German-Chinese university placement interviews

Intercultural Pragmatics ◽

10.1515/ip-2017-0011 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Katharina König ◽

Qiang Zhu

Keyword(s):

Chinese Students ◽

Analytic Approach ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

Chinese University ◽

Academic Communication ◽

Epistemic Asymmetry ◽

German Universities

AbstractPlacement interviews have become an important discourse genre at universities as they decide about access to social, monetary, or cultural resources. Despite their importance, hardly any linguistic studies deal with this particular discourse genre in academic communication. Using a conversation-analytic approach, we analyze a corpus of placement interviews in which representatives of a German university interview Chinese students applying for a study year at the German university. We examine how Chinese applicants present their second-hand knowledge about Germany and German universities in a conversation with university representatives who have first-hand knowledge about these spaces, i. e., we investigate how interviewers and interviewees deal with epistemic asymmetry when they construct and talk about academic spaces in China and Germany. While some aspects of German academia are situated in

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