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Christianity
Paul Weingartner
Messages from God to the World An Axiomatic Investigation of Marian Manifestations
Christianity: Sacred Texts
Bartosz Adamczewski
Deuteronomy–Judges A Hypertextual Commentary
Berlin, 2021. 270 pp. hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-86658-0 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-86659-7 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.70 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95
After a distinction between private religious visions and prophetic religious manifestations this book provides a deteiled description of the great Marian Apparitions in Guadalupe, La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje and Kibeho. These events are investigated with the axiomatic method, describing its essential features with axioms and definitions from which theorems are derived. The axioms and theorems consider the events to be miracles; they cover the credibility of the events, the reliability of the seers, the voluntary component of the believers and the content and seriousness of the messages given to the people in the whole world. In addition a comparison is made between the prophetic apparitions of Mary and Christian Revelation. This book defends that the ultimate origin of the prophetic manifestations of Mary, including her messages to the world, is God. “Ein innovativer Zugang zum Phänomen Medjugorje” Cardinal Schönborn, Wien.
Berlin, 2020. 262 pp. European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions. Vol. 27 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-83353-7 CHF 71.– / €D 59.95 / €A 60.– / € 57.10 / £ 47.– / US-$ 68.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-83855-6 CHF 71.– / €D 59.95 / €A 60.– / € 57.10 / £ 47.– / US-$ 68.95
This monograph demonstrates that the book of Deuteronomy is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Ezekiel. Likewise, it shows that the books of Joshua–Judges, taken together, are a result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy. In both cases, the detailed reworking consists of almost 700 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at times also linguistic correspondences. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on the earlier works explains numerous surprising features of Deuteronomy and Joshua–Judges. This critical analysis of Deuteronomy and Joshua–Judges sheds entirely new light on the question of the origin of the Pentateuch and the whole Israelite Heptateuch Genesis–Judges. Bartosz Adamczewski is Associate Professor of biblical sciences at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (Poland). He has published eleven books and numerous articles on the relationships between biblical writings themselves, and between them and historical facts.
