Rabbi - Pastor - Priest : : Their Roles and Profiles Through the Ages / / ed. by Walter Homolka, Heinz-Günther Schöttler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bonfil, Robert,; Deeg, Alexander,; Dirscherl, Erwin,; Firestone, Reuven,; Först, Johannes,; Hauptman, Judith,; Herms, Eilert,; Hoffman, Lawrence A.,; Homolka, Walter,; Kampmann, Jürgen,; Marx, Dalia,; Nicklas, Tobias,; Saperstein, Marc,; Schöttler, Heinz-Günther,; Stockhausen, Annette von,; Wagner-Rau, Ulrike,; Wilke, Carsten L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Homolka, Walter,; Schöttler, Heinz-Günther,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 p.)

Both Judaism and Christianity have authorized clergy, charged with fulfilling a multitude of tasks in their respective communities. They teach, provide pastoral care, and preach. They lead worship, hold services and offer counseling regarding all aspects of life. They perform religious rites at the beginning and end of life as well as in-between. They make decisions regarding religious questions, serve as administrators, and possibly even mediate ‛between heaven and earth’. The concrete forms of realization and the functions of the office are not only defined through theological specification but are also subject to trends and influences. This in turn leads to constant change and adaptation.

Judentum und Christentum haben ihre offiziell beauftragten Amtsträger, um die vielfältigen Aufgaben der Gemeinschaft zu erfüllen: zu sammeln und zu lehren, seelsorglich tätig zu sein und zu predigen, Gottesdienste zu leiten und Lebenshilfe zu geben, Rituale zu vollziehen am Beginn des Lebens, an dessen Ende und mitten im Leben, in religiösen Fragen zu entscheiden, administrativ tätig zu werden und vielleicht sogar ‛zwischen Himmel und Erde’ zu vermitteln.Die konkreten Verwirklichungsformen und Funktionen des Amtes (und der Amtsträger) sind dabei einem ständigen Wandel unterworfen. Mit diesem Funktionswandel reagieren Religionsgemeinschaften auf die sich verändernden Bedingungen des Glaubens und der religiösen Praxis. Die Beiträge gehen diesen Erwartungen an geistliche Amtsträger, an ihre Identität und Legitimation im Wandel der letzten Jahrhunderte nach und bringen diese auf zwei Ebenen zur Sprache: auf der Ebene der Leitbilder und auf der Ebene der realen Erscheinungsformen, die die jeweiligen geschichtlichen, kulturellen und sozialen Gegebenheiten hervorgebracht haben.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Preface -- The Talmudic Rabbi as Holy Man -- Offices? Roles, Functions, Authorities and Their Ethos in Earliest Christianity: A Look into the World of Pauline Communities -- Insights into the Christian Office in Late Antiquity -- Men of Knowledge and Power: A Tentative Profile of Medieval Rabbis -- Change or Continuity? How the Reformation Changed the Role of the Pastor -- Modern Rabbinical Training: Intercultural Invention and Political Reconfiguration -- Rabbis as Preachers, 1800–1965: Regensburg Conference Lecture -- The Professionalization of the American Rabbinate -- The Protestant Pastoral Office: Its Self-Understanding and Its Challenges Today -- Whom Does the Priest Represent? The Theology of the Ordained Ministry Following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) -- The Protestant Pastor and the Communication of the Gospel: Public Ministry in the Present Protestant Church -- A Female Rabbi Is Like an Orange on the Passover Plate. Women and the Rabbinate: Challenges and Horizons -- Functional Secularization and Conversion: On the Changed Demands Made on Ministerial Action in the Catholic Church -- Islamic Clerics: Tradition and Transition -- “… Invited to Preach to the People” (Origen): A Theological Plea for “Lay” Preaching in the Catholic Church -- Word Workers: The Rabbinate and the Protestant Pastoral Office in Dialogue -- The Modern Community Rabbi in Germany: Towards the Development of a Contemporary Occupational Profile -- List of Contributors -- Index of Abbreviations -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects