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  2. 11. Origen’s References to Heracleon : A Quotation-Analytical Study of the Earliest Known Commentary on the Gospel of John

    Author : Carl Johan Berglund; James Anthony Kelhoffer; Anders Ekenberg; Peter W. Martens; Tobias Nicklas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Heracleon; Origen; Fourth Gospel; Gnosticism; Valentinianism; Quotation Analysis; Second Century; Early Christianity; Nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

    Abstract : This study of Origen’s references to the second-century author Heracleon addresses two problems in previous research: Scholars have regularly presumed that every statement Origen attributes to Heracleon is equivalent to a verbatim quotation, and that Heracleon’s beliefs conform to those described in heresiological sources. The study develops a method of quotation analysis that uses variations in Origen’s attribution formulas to categorize the almost two hundred references as “verbatim quotations,” “summaries,” “explanatory paraphrases,” or “mere assertions. READ MORE

  4. 12. The Vulnerable Power of Worship A Study of a Power Approach to Contextualization in Christian Mission

    Author : Mats Rydinger; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religious Studies and Theology; Ritual Strategies; Religious Field; Power negotiation; Mission; Contextualization; Missio Dei; Religion och teologi;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the process of contextualizing the Christian discourse with a specific focus on worship and power negotiation. The study is based on literature, interviews and approximately six months of fieldwork in the U.S. in the years 1996,1998, and 2004. READ MORE

  5. 13. Spirit of Christ Inculturated- A Theological Theme Implicit in Shusaku Endo's Literary Works

    Author : Emi Masé-Hasegawa; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kristen teologi allmän; systematic and practical Christian theology; General; Christ.; religious pluralism; multiple religious affiliation; spirituality; koshinto; literature; Japanese religions; Japanese literature; Japan; Christianity; Japanese Christianity; Endo; inculturation; systematisk och praktisk ; Paleo-Siberian languages and literatures; Korean; Japanese; Koreanska; japanska och paleosibiriska språk; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is a Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist. From 1950 to 1953, he studied French literature in Lyon, France. Returning from Lyon, Endo began his career as a novelist. His early works include: White Men, Yellow Men(1954), A Wonderful Fool(1959), The Women in the Bible(1960), Foreign Studies(1965), etc. READ MORE

  6. 14. Critique of Exaggeration : Thinking Beyond

    Author : Ervik Cejvan; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; critique; exaggeration; thinking beyond; Artaud; Bataille; Derrida; Descartes; Plato; creation of concepts; transgression; extravagance; excess; critique; exaggeration; thinking beyond; Artaud; Bataille; Derrida; Descartes; Plato; creation of concepts; transgression; extravagance; excess;

    Abstract : This study examines the function of exaggeration for thinking beyond the current concepts of God and the human. An example of thinking beyond in philosophy is the exaggeration “beyond being” in Plato’s Republic. In the philosophy of religion, generally, we deal with the questions of God. READ MORE

  7. 15. Divine Suspense : On Kierkegaard's Frygt og Bæven and the Aesthetics of Suspense

    Author : Andreas Engh Seland; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Søren Kierkegaard; Fear and Trembling; Philosophy of Religion; Aesthetics; Suspense; Paradox of Suspense; Faith; Narrativity; Mikhail Bakhtin;

    Abstract : What does it mean to feel suspense? What kinds of situations give rise to the emotion? What is the connection between suspense and narrativity? And how is it that we can feel suspense upon repeat encounters with the same narrative? These questions are at the center of the first part of this study, where I develop and defend the ‘imminence theory of suspense’. Central to this theory is the claim that suspense arises in situations defined by imminence, by the fact that they are structurally incomplete but geared toward their possible future completion: in other words, situations in which something of essence is imminent. READ MORE