Diplomacy and Confession. Religious language in the political communication at the Westphalian Peace Congress (1645–1648)

虽然明斯特和奥斯纳布吕克的和平条约被认为是近代早期被深入研究的资料之一，但在它们之前的会议只在最近的外交史学和文化历史和平研究中受到关注。多视角方法不再关注国家和统治者等宏观历史人物，而是越来越多地关注现场的外交行动者，这也以一种引人注目的方式导致了对邻近学科的冲动的接受。然而，基于文化历史研究现状的神学专著至今尚未出版。特别是，宗教法的起源（第五和第七IPO）和外交谈判中的跨国公司的作用是最迫切的研究需要。在这一背景下，该项目根据相关的大会档案，从宗教语言、《圣经》参考和对教派差异的看法等方面重建了谈判，以便为威斯特伐利亚和平大会的历史评估做出神学贡献。它结合了政治文化史领域的研究方法，对教会历史的综合理解，能够包括基督教的教会外现实及其世俗变革。在此基础上，宗教-政治合法化战略和宗教-道德的和平概念可以被区别对待，并被理解为对早期现代冲突与和平文化的贡献，使威斯特伐利亚大会成为历史里程碑。

While the peace treaties of Münster and Osnabrück are considered to be among the intensively researched sources of the early modern period, the Congress that preceded them has only received attention in recent diplomatic historiography and cultural-historical peace research. Instead of concentrating on macro-historical figures such as states and rulers, the multi-perspectival approaches increasingly focus on the diplomatic actors on site, which in a striking way also leads to the reception of impulses from neighboring disciplines. However, a theological monograph based on the current state of cultural-historical research has not yet been published to this day. In particular, the genesis of religious law (Art. V and VII IPO) and the role of denominational corpora in the diplomatic negotiations are among the most urgent research desiderata. Against this background, the project reconstructs the negotiations with regard to religious language, biblical references and perception of confessional difference on the basis of relevant congress files in order to make a theological contribution to the historical assessment of the Westphalian Peace Congress. It combines research approaches from the field of cultural history of the political with an integrative understanding of church history that is able to include extra-church realities of Christianity and their secular transformations. On this basis, confessional-political legitimation strategies and religious-ethical concepts of peace can be analyzed in a differentiated manner and understood as contributions to the early modern culture of conflict and peace that made the Westphalian Congress a historical milestone.