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This study explores how Shi ˘ ite and Protestant groups use the metaphor of sacrifice to cope with traumatic child deaths. The theoretical framework for this study is shaped by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss' theory of sacrifice and Mahmoud M. Ayoub and Jürgen Moltmann's theology of suffering. In this paper, religious services from digital media are examined, including sermons, hymns, songs, poems, laments, and social media posts, in the context of nine child deaths in the US, Germany, Iran, Afghanistan, and Yemen. The shared function of sacrificial imagery in Shi ˘ ite and Protestant communities is driven by common themes of 'comfort and anxiety', 'narrative fusion' and 'consecration of social order'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pastoral care and leadership are two central tasks of the pastoral profession. Nevertheless, their relationship to each other remains underdetermined in the theorizing of the respective sub-disciplines as well as in practical theology as a whole. This paper attempts to constructively define the relationship by understanding pastoral care primarily as a leadership task, namely as the organization and staging of pastoral care. Then he unfolds the thesis that the neglect of this ecclesial cybernetic dimension of pastoral care, but also of ecclesial cybernetics as a whole, results in a weakening of both theory and practice of the common priesthood of the believers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines which new phenomena are emerging in the discourse around life in the vicarage due to advancing digitalisation. On Instagram, it becomes apparent that, in addition to the pastors and various liturgical formats, the private spaces, often the vicarages, are also being staged in a new way. This explorative-qualitative study examines this finding in more detail by analyzing awell-known pastor and influencers' use of the vicarage. It becomes clear that the smartphone provides a direct insight into the vicarage, whereby the focus of the discourse is less on the house per se than on the (religious) life led in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper starts off by giving a tentative definition of 'theopoetics', in order to distinguish between different versions of this program. At the heart of this definition lies a genuinely theological qualification of the theopoetic element according to which dogmatic consequences for the concept of God have to be drawn from the poetic form. It is this elementwhich turns theopoetics so intriguing – and yet, delicate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Still Diaconal Work and Theology? – Responses from the New Testament and its Surroundings The present study deals with the origins and motivational contexts of such social welfare work, which in Germany is known as 'Diakonie'. For this purpose, this article follows an exegetical-hermeneutical approach, which brings the social and caring activities of ancient associations into a discussion with NewTestament texts on this topic. This lays the foundations for systematic-theological reflections on the possible role of 'Diakonie' within the canon of theology, which conclude the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]