Dieser interdisziplinar angelegte Sammelband erkundet die Relevanz wissenschaftlicher Erhellungen der Lebenswelt fur Systematische und Praktische Theologie. Dazu begibt er sich in ein Gesprach mit philosophischer Phanomenologie, Religionsphilosophie und Sozialwissenschaft. Die einzelnen Beitrage markieren aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven das Interesse von Theologie an "Gelebter Religion". Abgeleitet wird daraus die Bedeutung der Phanomenologie fur die Konstitution der Praktischen Theologie.

The volume focuses on the fundamental problem of the fundamental tension between experience and empirical science, which has been central to modern religious research since the classic approaches of Friedrich Schleiermacher and William James: How can religious experience that is lived directly be theoretically described and critically classified so that it does not follow the conceptual reconstruction lost in the way of analysis? The twelve articles in this English-language volume deal with this question in an interdisciplinary discussion. Attempts to answer questions are presented by leading international representatives of the respective discipline, which convincingly bring in the specialist perspectives from theology, philosophy of religion, cultural anthropology and empirical social research. This also brings to bear the breadth of religious experience from ecclesiastically and culturally diverse contexts in Europe, North America and Africa.

Perceiving the Other is a Norwegian/German collaboration lead by Trygve Wyller and Hans-Genter Heimbrock. Case examples introduce a new way of approaching ethics. It points out that it is possible to show phenomenological ethics in practise. The lived experience (praxis) is as important as the professional experience. The research on the field is the dynamics between these two experiences, where the professional experience is taken from the general life experience.Perceiving the Other has three sections:1. Introduction emphasizing the ethical paradigm shift, and presenting the terms relationality, connectedness etc. The introduction clarifies past and ongoing research, and discusses how to develop research with the "new" perspectives - connectedness, phenomenology etc.2. Section two consists of five cases from Norwegian and German doctoral dissertations and thesis within professional ethics and theology. It gives five thematic sections presenting phenomenona as language, space, gender and body.3. Section three is the conclusion, introducing phronetic ethics that is driven from the relational (as source of ethics) and connectedness. The conclusion also discusses the consequences and implications of introducing these perspectives within the fields of theology, professional ethics and work among the marginalized.

God is unspeakable - but even in post-Christian times he was spoken of everywhere. That is precisely why it is one of the basic tasks of Christian theology to speak of God. People do this in different ways. You sometimes shape theological content in speaking as instructive and informative speech, as arguments for (or against) God. Sometimes they speak from a safe distance, but sometimes they also dare tentative confession and searching for suitable words in poetic circles, speaking at the limits of speaking. The explorations, essays, poetic texts and sketches for practice in this volume focus on the speakers and their spoken language. With a strong focus on the functions of speaking, I ask: What happens to people when they talk about God one way or another? What does it do that speaking has an intrinsically appealing effect on listeners, that it "crackles" in one case, but not in the other? to speak to the inexpressible, and to which limits and abysses of life do they come from case to case? From this, ways to practice are derived that show more concrete design perspectives and can encourage you to speak authentically.