Johann Arndt's (1555-1621) Four Books of True Christianity (1610): A Critical Hybrid Edition with Commentary

约翰·阿恩特(Johann Arndt，1555-1621)被认为是近代早期最重要、最多产的新教神学家之一。他的《关于真正的基督教的四本书》无疑是阿恩特出版的最成功和最有影响力的出版物。第一版只包括第一本书，出版于1605年。然而，阿恩特对第一本书进行了彻底的修改，并增加了三本。这四本书在1610年作为一个完整的版本出版。后来，它经历了数百个版本，并被翻译成欧洲各地和国外的不同语言，获得了国际甚至全球地位。这个项目的目标是第一次开发一个注释性的，历史-批评性的阿恩特工作的混合版本，将记录文本的起源和他对教父、中世纪神秘主义和副神秘主义传统的多方面接受。这一批判性版本将解决学术上对阿恩特工作的解释辅助的迫切需求。它还将成为一部极具影响力的早期现代文学作品的独特而引人注目的纪念碑。因此，教会历史和德语研究的未来研究人员将有机会获得迄今为止对阿恩特工作的最好的文本分析和解释辅助。该版本将逐渐出现，既作为印刷作品，也作为开放获取的超文本版本。达姆施塔特州立大学将提供电子出版物和长期数字档案。《生物武器公约》第一版已在印刷中(参见附件1)；《第二次生物武器公约》的版本将在第二个资助期开始前完成。在申请资金期间，《生物武器公约》第三版和第四版将最终定稿，该项目将完成。

Johann Arndt (1555-1621) is regarded as one of the most important and prolific Protestant theologians of the early modern period. His Four Books on True Christianity are without doubt the most successful and influential of Arndt's publications. The first edition, which included only the first book, was published in 1605. However, Arndt thoroughly revised the first book and added three more. The four books appeared as a complete edition in 1610. It later went through hundreds of editions and was translated into different languages across Europe and abroad, gaining international, even global stature. The goal of this project is to develop for the first time a commentated, historical-critical hybrid edition of Arndt's work that will document the origins of the text and his multifaceted reception of patristic, medievalmystical, and paracelsic-hermetic traditions. This critical edition will address the pressing need in scholarship for interpretive aids to Arndt's work. It will also serve as a unique and compelling memorial to a highly influential opus of early-modern literature. Thus, future researchers in church history and German studies will have access to very best textual analysis and interpretive aids to Arndt's work to date. The edition will appear gradually, both as a printed work and as a hypertextversion in Open Access. The Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt will provide for the electronic publication and the long-term digital archiving. The edition of BWC I is already in print (cf. attachment 1); the edition of BWC II will be completed until the beginning of the second funding period. During the funding applied for here, the BWC III and IV editions will be finalized and the project will be completed.