Robert Kolb
Biographic Data
| ID | 971902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Kolb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolb |
| SIGNATURE | KOLB R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia Seminary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0187-3391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge History of International Law
Volume X of The Cambridge History of International Law offers a comprehensive and critical discussion of the history of international law in the interwar period to date. Bringing together scholars across various disciplines, the volume aims to go beyond the well-established cliché of the failure of the League of Nations and discusses the huge impact this period had on the post-WWII international legal order. It focuses on the League of Nations as…
Cambridge History of International Law
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
The term --c> human rights law ('HRL') encompasses all fundamental freedoms and all basic social, economie and cultural rights recognized to each individual independently of --c> nationality.The term international humanitarian law ('IHL') is today used in a broad sense ( --c> Humanitarian Law, International).It co vers all the rules protective of potential or actual victims of armed conflicts, ail the ru les on the conduct of warfare, and all the…
The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in Their Reformed Augustinian Context
I suspect that my personal likes and dislikes on many of these questions conform to Massing's. Martin Luther, as we all now know, was a notoriously difficult man to like at times (particularly during his execrable late life anti-Semitic ravings). But, like all of us, he was a complex individual, as was Erasmus, as were their contemporaries. One might argue that he was as accomplished a humanist as Erasmus, who could himself be as viperous and unf…
Reasonableness in International Law
The concept of reasonableness exhibits an important link with human reason, a philosophical concept par excellence. Reasonableness is also generally perceived as opening the door to several ethical or moral, rather than legal, considerations (see also Ethos, Ethics and Morality in International Relations). A number of legal philosophers insist upon the importance of reasonableness in law. Furthermore, lawyers are able to fill lacunae in existing …
The Reformation of Prophecy
The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet and Old Testament Prophecy. G. Sujin Pak.Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 376 pp. $99. - Volume 73 Issue 4
Der Theologe und Schriftsteller Friedrich Dedekind (1524/25–1598)
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The notion of “acts harmful to the enemy” under international humanitarian law
This article provides a legal analysis of the largely uncharted notion of “acts harmful to the enemy” under international humanitarian law, which reconciles the humanitarian need to grant special protection to medical services (medical personnel, units and transports) in the interests of the wounded and sick with the military necessity to remove it when acts are committed contrary to good faith and for hostile purposes or with effects which harm …
The 1868 St Petersburg Declaration on Explosive Projectiles
Catholic Reform in the Age of Luther
Catholic Reform in the Age of Luther: Duke George of Saxony and the Church, 1488–1525. Christoph Volkmar. Trans. Brian McNeil and Bill Ray. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 209. Leiden: Brill, 2017. x + 708 pp. $273. - Volume 72 Issue 4
Legal History as a Source of International Law
This chapter examines to what extent ‘history’ can be considered a source of international law. It argues, in a classical way, that history is a material source of international law, though the chapter also examines some norms of positive international law which refer to historical facts. It first casts the question of history as a source of international law in its historical context. Classical international law, with its much greater emphasis o…
Archeologies of Confession
Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517–2017. Carina L. Johnson, David M. Luebke, Marjorie E. Plummer, and Jesse Spohnholz, eds. Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association 16. New York: Berghahn, 2017. vi + 346 pp. $130. - Volume 71 Issue 3
Réflexions sur le Monisme et le Dualisme dans les Rapports entre Systèmes
This article is an essay on the relationship between dualism and monism in international and municipal law. It attempts to trace the strengths and inadequacies of both doctrines and to consider the matter under the lens of a functional distinction. The question of monism and dualism is asked at different levels and in different contexts, and it thus elicits different answers. The most fundamental distinction seems to be the issue of dualism and m…
Martin Luther
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Military Objectives in International Humanitarian Law
This doctoral thesis, now published as a monograph, provides a thorough analysis of one of the most crucial concepts of the modern law of armed conflicts (LOAC), namely military objectives. The concept is crucial because the targeting of such objectives is directly linked to the principle of distinction, which in turn is a cardinal tenet of LOAC. It requires that the belligerents must always make the distinction between civilian objects and perso…
Treaties for Armed Conflict
The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology
A brief biographical overview precedes the six sections of this Handbook, designed to give introductions to Luther's thought, its development, and its historical and continuing impact. Presented with a variety of approaches and methods, each of the forty-seven essays gives a summary of its topic, a review of previous studies on the topic, and suggestions for areas of future research. The sections treat (1) Luther's grounding in late medieval thou…
L'article 103 de la Charte des Nations Unies
L'article 103 de la Charte des Nations Unies touche à la priorité, pour les membres de l'Organisation, des obligations en vertu de la Charte des Nations Unies par rapport aux obligations découlant de tout autre accord. Cette disposition a constamment gagné en importance dans la pratique internationale et nationale de ces dernières années. On pense évidemment à la concurrence entre les régimes de sanction des Nations Unies par rapport aux obligati…
Luther on Justification as Forensic and Effective
A brief biographical overview precedes the six sections of this Handbook, designed to give introductions to Luther's thought, its development, and its historical and continuing impact. Presented with a variety of approaches and methods, each of the forty-seven essays gives a summary of its topic, a review of previous studies on the topic, and suggestions for areas of future research.
Discussion of T. H. Cheng's Monograph When International Law Works , and in Particular a Defence of the Nicaragua Judgment of the ICJ
In this monograph Professor Tai-Heng Cheng purports to set up a global perspective on the role of international law in international relations, and in particular on the conditions and ways through which it can be effective. The perspective is the one of the ‘rational’ decision-maker, in the best vein of the New Haven school, whose theoretical framework the author espouses completely and thoroughly. The book is a valuable contribution to internati…
Power of Faith
Karla Apperloo-Boersma. and Herman J. Selderhuis., eds. Power of Faith: 450 Years of the Heidelberg Catechism. Exh. Cat. Power of Faith: 450 Years of the Heidelberg Catechism and The House of Orange and Religion, Apeldoorn. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013. 454 pp. €39.99. ISBN: 978–3–525–55049–6. - Volume 66 Issue 4
Philip Melanchthon
A Tribute to Raymond B. Waddington, Outgoing Senior Editor
Politis and Sociological Jurisprudence of Inter-War International Law
This article attempts to shed some light on the French Sociological Law School, its doctrinal presuppositions, social surroundings, and different personal expressions, focusing then on the contribution to that doctrine of one of its major exponents, Nicholas Politis
Performing the Reformation
Origin of the twin terms jus ad bellum/jus in bello
The august solemnity of Latin confers on the terms jus ad helium and jus in bello the misleading appearance of being centuries old. In fact, these expressions were only coined at the time of the League of Nations and were rarely used in doctrine or practice until after the Second World War, in the late 1940s to be precise. This article seeks to chart their emergence
International Court of Justice
Following the decisions of the International Court of Justice on November 20 and 27, 1950 on the question of asylum for the refugee, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, the government of Colombia (on December 13, 1950) instituted new proceedings before the Court against the government of Peru. The applicationof Colombia requested the Court to adjudge and declare, in pursuance of Article 7 of the Protocol of Friendship and Cooperation of 1934 in force b…
The relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights law
Today there can no longer be any doubt: international humanitarian law and international human rights law are near relations. This oft-repeated observation must now be accepted by all. Many believe that the close relationship between these two areas existed and was perceived “from the outset”. That is not at all the case. Formerly assigned to separate legal categories, it was only under the persistent scrutiny of modern analysts that they reveale…
De l'assistance humanitaire
Après quelques années de travaux, l'Institut de droit international (IDI) a adopté une résolution intitulée «L'assistance humanitaire». Les travaux préparatories avaient été menés avec application et énergie par le rapporteur B. Vukas, de Croatie, après que M. Carrillo Salcedo eut renoncé à son mandat pour des raisons de santé. L'IDI est, de longue date, une institution scientifique du droit international de renom. Son objectif est de promouvoir …
The 1868 St Petersburg Declaration on Explosive Projectiles
The notion of “acts harmful to the enemy” under international humanitarian law
This article provides a legal analysis of the largely uncharted notion of “acts harmful to the enemy” under international humanitarian law, which reconciles the humanitarian need to grant special protection to medical services (medical personnel, units and transports) in the interests of the wounded and sick with the military necessity to remove it when acts are committed contrary to good faith and for hostile purposes or with effects which harm …
Note on humanitarian intervention
Sur l'origine du couple terminologique ius ad bellum/ius in bello
L'apparence d'être plusieurs fois séculaire qu'ont les termes ius ad bellum et ius in bello , favorisée par les mirages de l'auguste solennité du latin, est trompeuse. En réalité ces termes n'apparaissent qu'à l'époque de la Société des Nations; ils ne s'imposent comme lieu commun dans la doctrine et la pratique qu'après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et plus précisément à l'extrême fin des années quarante. L'objet des quelques lignes qui suivent es…
Dynamics of Party Conflict in the Saxon Late Reformation
International Court of Justice
Following the decisions of the International Court of Justice on November 20 and 27, 1950 on the question of asylum for the refugee, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, the government of Colombia (on December 13, 1950) instituted new proceedings before the Court against the government of Peru. The applicationof Colombia requested the Court to adjudge and declare, in pursuance of Article 7 of the Protocol of Friendship and Cooperation of 1934 in force b…
"Good Works are Detrimental to Salvation"
As the Protestant reformers died, their successors sorted and solidified the insights and institutions which constituted their legacy. This process involved numerous disputes, for among their disciples there had developed divergences of opinion regarding the proper interpretation of the reformers' message. Within German Lutheranism a number of such disputes were closely related to Luther's primary question: how does a person become righteous befo…
Bibliography of the Continental Reformation. Materials Available in English
Julius Pflug. Correspondance. Tome I, 1510-1539
Nikolaus von Amsdorf on Vessels of Wrath and Vessels of Mercy
The classic debate between Erasmus and Luther over the role of the human will in conversion is only the most famous of several Reformation era disputes over several related soteriological and anthropological issues. As Reformation developed into Orthodoxy, Calvinists and Lutherans went to battle over the doctrines of double predestination and the perseverance of the saints. The debate over God's eternal decree remained a point of irritation betwe…
Georg Major as Controversialist
Georg Major was a reluctant controversialist. External events and his own theological concerns forced him into a controversy which he loathed but to which he gave his name, the "Majoristic controversy." That controversy forced Luther's heirs to refine their definition of the relationship between faith and works, but it also wracked and plagued Georg Major's life for a quarter of a century in spite of his efforts to work his way out of the dispute
Sponsors' Preface
Dynamics of Party Conflict in the Saxon Late Reformation
Nikolaus von Amsdorf (1483-1565)
Deals with Amsdorf's role in developing the understanding of Luther in the years after his death.
Bibliographie der deutschen Liedpredigt
Nikolaus Gallus. Ein Beitrag zur Reformationsgeschichte der nachlutherischen Zeit
Augsburg 1530
Robert Kolb, Augsburg 1530: German Lutheran Interpretations of the Diet of Augsburg to 1577, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, 450th Anniversary Augsburg Confession (Jun. 25, 1980), pp. 47-61
Matthaeus Judex's Condemnation of Princely Censorship of Theologians' Publications
Just as God condemns and curses the Roman Antichrist,so without any doubt at all he also curses the new Caesaropapacy ... in which governmental officials station themselves in God's temple and puff themselves up against God and the church ... as they compose and promulgate new decrees contrary to what Christ has ordained for his ministry, and then decide to subject [Christ's ministers] to the punishment of exile and condemnation
The Flacian Rejection of the Concordia, Prophetic Style and Action in the German Late Reformation
Article The Flacian Rejection of the Concordia, Prophetic Style and Action in the German Late Reformation was published on December 1, 1982 in the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History (volume 73, issue jg).
Christian Magistrate and State Church
Jean Crespin, Un editeur reforme du XVIe siecle
Jean Crespin est connu comme l'auteur du fameux martyrologe protestant ; les bibliophiles connaissent ses livres et les specialistes de la Reforme savent que le principal de la production theologique genevoise vers 1550-1572 est sorti de ses presses. C'est cependant la premiere fois que ses publications font l'objet d'une etude de cette importance. Jean-Francois Gilmont s'est attache a utiliser toutes les sources d'archive disponibles et tout d'a…
Julius Pflug et L'Allemagne du XVIe Siecle, Etudes et documents
Robert von Friedeburg, Self Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe: England and Germany, 1530-1680, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002, pp. 290, hb. £55, ISBN: 0754601773Recent historiography has witnessed two more or less discernable trends regarding the early modern world: the revival of comparative history, and the desire to understand 'England's troubles' within its European context. To the extent that this book seeks to address such conce…
Luther und Hegel. Untersuchungen zur Grundlegung einer neuen systematischen Theologie
Prophecy and Gnosis. Apocalypticism in the Wake of the Lutheran Reformation
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Die Theologie Martin Luthers nach seinen Predigten
Festivals of the Saints in Late Reformation Lutheran Preaching
Notes1. Simon Musaeus, Ausslegung der Episteln und Euangelien uber die gewonliche namhaffte Feste der heyligen apostel/Maertyrer und Zeugen Christi durchs gantze Jar (Frankfurt/Main, 1590), 2r.2. Ibid.3. Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell, Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000‐1700 (Chicago, 1982), 141‐50, 208‐09. For further background, see Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy, trans. John W. Harvey (New York, 1958).4. F…
Veri Christianismi Solidaeque Philosophiae Libertas. Johann Valentin Andreae Gesammelte Schriften; Vol 7
God's Gift of Martyrdom
It is a special joy for me to hear that our good and pious table companion and house guest [Robert Barnes] has been so graciously called by God to pour out his blood for the sake of God's dear Son and to become a holy martyr." Martin Luther's reflection on the death of this friend, the English churchman and diplomat, in 1540typified his attitude toward martyrdom as his followers experienced it at the hands of Roman Catholic opponents. He continue…
Nachrufe, Autobiographische Schriften, Cosmoxenus
Sur l'origine du couple terminologique ius ad bellum/ius in bello
L'apparence d'être plusieurs fois séculaire qu'ont les termes ius ad bellum et ius in bello , favorisée par les mirages de l'auguste solennité du latin, est trompeuse. En réalité ces termes n'apparaissent qu'à l'époque de la Société des Nations; ils ne s'imposent comme lieu commun dans la doctrine et la pratique qu'après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et plus précisément à l'extrême fin des années quarante. L'objet des quelques lignes qui suivent es…
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