Coordination Funds

犹太教和基督教的经典著作被认为是基督教的基本权威。然而，即使在它最终确定并在4世纪得到广泛认可之后，仍然存在（并且今天继续存在）声称权威的传统，这些传统超越了正典，并且部分针对正典文本，有时从中选择和更新它们。在对福柯概念的创造性接受中，这些传统，通常被称为“伪”，以及它们的表达形式和交流背景，可以被理解为异托邦，即“有效空间”，在古代晚期基督教中充当“支承”。这些传统及其在宗教生活的许多不同背景下的功能是超越正典合作研究小组（CRG）的重点。具体来说，“超越正典”研究小组将关注圣经正典之外的文学传统，关注它们在“生活”和“大众”宗教中的多样化、通常是物质的表达形式和起点，以及它们在教会仪式生活中被低估的意义。因此，“古代晚期的知识空间”的概念在话语空间的意义上得到了扩展，话语空间也包括了事物和实践。这种跨学科的方法不仅有望深入了解宗教交流和神学知识形成的相当隐含的机制，而且还可以在文化科学和人文科学中探索规范过程和替代权威的一般问题时做出创新贡献。

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.