Mark W. Elliot

Handbook of Reading Theological German

“Road-tested with the highly successful Mainz summer school for German Language and Theology, this book now takes the reader gently by the hand to consider the salient points of written academic theological German, with a wide confessional sweep and helpfully annotated texts. It integrates an appreciation of the key outlines of German religious history and culture, German thought, as well as the word-forms. This is done not just to sweeten the grammatical pill but also to help students to fall in love with the language and culture. I have seen students benefit from this, and I look forward to using it in place of Ziefle’s Modern Theological German of 1986.”