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"This treatise on religious studies traces the European tradition of astrology from its oriental beginnings to the present day. The aim is to get a view of the different mythological, philosophical and theological ideas of the cosmos (especially with Platonic and Aristotelian borrowings), which astrology has repeatedly reformulated and carried through all epochs. However, it seems as if astrology had lost its plausibility with the overcoming of the geocentric world view by Copernicus and Kepler and could only continue to exist as an "intellectual regression" (Theodor Adorno). This view is countered by the thesis, founded here, that astrology has been able to survive the changes in world views unscathed because it designs philosophical (holistic) patterns of reasoning into the relationship between cosmos and humans, which in a Platonic sense understand the cosmos as an intelligent and vital organism"--

In the light of new papyrological evidence and in the critical appreciation of the scholarly discussion, this work examines the problem of dating and assessment of ancient literary sources for Alexander. In the second half of the work, based on the most important surviving literary texts from Alexander's time, the outlines of the king's policy toward Greece are more closely examined

This volume unites contributions by Gustav Adolf Benrath on the history of the church and theology in Southwest Germany. On the occasion of the author's 80th birthday, the editors have collected 15 of his most important contributions on the history of the Protestant church and theology. The selection process was based on the author's own research foci, ranging from studies on the influence of the Reformation in Speyer, the Palatinate and Mainz to his work on the Reformed group of Irenics, to the church unions in Mainz, the Palatinate and Baden. There are also contributions on the Basle Mission, the revival movements in Palatine and Baden, on Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling and Johann Peter Hebel.