Jenseits des Kanons: Heterotopien religiöser Autorität im spätantiken Christentum

犹太教和基督教圣经的正典被认为是基督教的基本权威。然而，即使在它在世纪完成并得到广泛认可之后，仍然存在（并继续存在于今天）声称权威的传统，这些传统超越了正典，部分针对正典文本，有时从正典文本中选择并更新它们。在福柯概念的创造性接受中，这些通常被称为“杜撰”的传统，以及它们的表达形式和传播语境，可以被理解为异质性，即作为“有效空间”，在晚期古代基督教中充当“支点”。这些传统及其在宗教生活的许多不同语境中的功能是超越佳能合作研究小组（CRG）的重点。具体来说，超越佳能CRG将专注于文学传统超越圣经正典，对他们的多样性，往往是物质形式的表达和出发点，在“生活”和“流行”的宗教，并在其低估的意义，在仪式生活的教会。“古代晚期的知识空间”的概念由此在话语空间的意义上得到了扩展，它也包括事物和实践。这种跨学科的方法不仅有望洞察宗教交流和神学知识的形成的相当隐含的机制，但它也可以对规范过程和替代权威的一般问题做出创新性的贡献，因为它们是在文化中探索的。科学和人文学科。

The canon of writings of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures is regarded as the fundamental authority in Christianity. Even after its finalization and its widespread recognition in the 4th century, however, there existed (and continue to exist today) traditions claiming authority, which lie beyond the canon and which were partly directed against canonical texts, sometimes selecting from and updating them. In a creative reception of Foucault’s concept, these traditions, generally known as “apocryphal,” as well as their expressive forms and communication contexts, can be understood as heterotopias, i.e. as “effective spaces,” serving as “abutments” in late ancient Christianity.These traditions and their functions in the many diverse contexts of religious life are the focus of the Beyond Canon Collaborative Research Group (CRG). Specifically, the Beyond Canon CRG will focus on literary traditions beyond the biblical canon, on their diverse, often material forms of expression and starting points in “lived” and “popular” religion, and on their underestimated significance in the ritual life of the churches. The concept of the “intellectual space of late antiquity” is thereby expanded in the sense of a discourse space that also includes things and practices.This interdisciplinary approach not only promises insights into the rather implicit mechanisms of religious communication and the making of theological knowledge, but it can also make an innovative contribution to general questions of canonical processes and alternative authorities as they are explored in cultural sciences and humanities.