Salomon Adrets Responsa als Praxis religiosen Entscheidens

If one understands decision-making as a social act in which certain decision alternatives are compared and these alternatives are mutually exclusive, one recognizes that a decision is always contingent and that it could therefore always turn out differently. Decisions and decisions are therefore also an impertinence. How does the decision-making practice in Responsa look like? In order to answer this question, Nicola Kramp-Seidl analyzes Salomon Adret's response with the aim of presenting the decision-making process and the visibility of the decision-making in this scholar's response as an example. The author examines when decision-making situations arise, so that inquiries are submitted to Adret, how Adret presents a decision in Responsa, which sources he uses to reduce the burden of decision-making and how he stages his subject authority.