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Innerlichkeit und Kraft : Studie über epistemische Resilienz

The research underpinning this book fulfils the following criteria for a double-weighted research output: extensiveness (390 pp; 160,000 words), considerable body of material (bibliography of 20 pages with 500 items), extensive primary sources (Aristotle, Edith Stein, patristic sources, etc.). The book develops one central concept ('epistemic resilience'), tracing this idea in theological and philosophical traditions with a special emphasis on the 4th, 5th, 16th and 20th centuries. The book is bringing together the author's scholarship from the last 7 years and is also partly a result of a research project on Character Development with the Templeton Foundation.

This monograph is a ‘single concept book’, i.e. the book develops systematically the concept of ‘epistemic resilience’ (as ‘resilience from within’, as ‘resilience based on inner sources’, as ‘resilience based on a concept of interiority and inwardness’, and as resilience nurtured by epistemic resources such as hope and meaning). Resilience research focuses traditionally on psychology, but it has not been systematically noted that inner factors as described by philosophy and religious studies can contribute to the idea and the sources of resilience. The book draws from the Christian tradition and works with a number of case studies.