Pluriel

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Cordula Heupts

Cordula Heupts studied Violin, Music and Catholic Theology in Detmold and Paderborn/ Germany (2007-2013). She did her doctorate with Klaus von Stosch at the Theological Faculty in Paderborn (2014-2019). Her dissertation is about the beauty and glory of God in Christianity and Islam and worked on Hans Urs von Balthasar, Navid Kermani and Milad Karimi. It was funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. At the moment she is working as research assistant with Klaus von Stosch in the DFG-Project „Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue. Christian Prophetology in Dialogue with Judaism and Islam” at Bonn University.

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Universität Bonn - Germany

Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue (Bonn) (closed)

Research group of the University of Paderborn.
The Qur’anic approach to prophecy challenges Jewish and Christian perspectives for a variety of reasons. The Qur’an seems to have some concrete features of prophets in mind that are not completely coherent with the Biblical tradition. Moreover, it is the selection of prophets within the Qur’an that is idiosyncratic and confusing from Jewish and Christian perspectives. For example, important prophets, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah, do not appear by name in the Qurʾan but Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, considered as patriarchs in the Bible, are named prophets in the Qur´an.

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Universität Bonn - Germany

Religion and temporality (Bonn, Germany)

Religion and temporality intersect in profound ways, shaping individuals, societies, and the course of history. From the cyclical rhythms of ritual and sacred time to the eschatological visions of the future, from historical narratives embedded within religious traditions to contemporary challenges of globalization and rapid change. Through theological approaches to time as progress and narratives […]

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