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NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 50, Issue 2, 1996
Volume 50, Issue 2, 1996
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The Resurrection between Zarathustra and Jonathan Z. Smith
By J.N. BremmerAbstractIn this contribution I study three aspects of the history of the resurrection in antiquity. Firstly, after a short survey of the resurrection in the New Testament, I show that this doctrine was not particularly important in Qumran or among the Essenes. Secondly, I argue that the resurrection was not very important for the ancient Persians, who only started to thematize the doctrine in competition with Christianity. Thirdly, I suggest that J.Z. Smith wrongly interprets the ‘dying and rising gods’, since he takes insufficient account of the chronology of the evidence.
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Exegetische notities over Maria in het Protevangelium Jacobi
More LessAbstractThis essay discusses the original background of various motifs in PJ’s description of Mary, all of them having to do with sex, birth, purity and ascetism: her being a seven-months’ baby, her eating angelic food, her removal from the temple at the age of twelve, and her perpetual virginity are studied in the light of ancient Pagan, Jewish, and Christian concepts.
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De vervluchtiging van het vrijzinnig protestantisme in Nederland
More Less1Voor hun suggesties en kritiek op een eerdere versie van dit artikel wil ik prof.dr. E.J. Kuiper, dr. Peter van Rooden, prof.dr. H.J. Adriaanse en dr. Hetty Zoek hartelijk danken. Deze onderzoekingen werden gesteund door de Stichting voor Filosofie en Theologie (SFT), die wordt gesubsidieerd door de Ned. Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO).
AbstractIn this essay the author discusses two issues. First, he offers an explanation of the decline of liberal Protestantism in the Netherlands in the 20th century. He argues that its fall is due to the Dutch system of pillarization (consociationalism). The idea of (liberal Protestant) religion as an integrative force in society was severely frustrated in a situation where the non-liberals organized themselves as separate confessional organisations, which came to dominate the public sphere. Secondly, he discusses the question whether the liberal Protestant ideals have been realized in an indirect way, i.e. in the contemporary open-minded reformed Churches or in the welfare state, taken as the materialization of a liberal civil religion. The answer to this question depends on whether one is willing to see liberal Protestantism not only as a religious movement, but also as a cultural force.
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Forma lucis: Een gereformeerde theologie van de kleur
More Less*De inhoud van dit artikel is besproken met Prof.dr. E.J. Beker, dr. M A. Smalbrugge en drs. J.H. Hoekert, die ik hartelijk dank voor hun commentaren.
AbstractCan theological aesthetics be the startingpoint of Calvinist theology, and if so, which aesthetics? In the aesthetics of Kant, Calvin, Bonaventura and Barth, form is a central notion. Theological form is defined as the relation between God, reality and believer. Thus it is closely connected to the imaginability of God. Kant and Bonaventura make no eschatological reservation toward form, while Calvin and Barth see form as a prolepsis, which expects eschatological affirmation. In Bonaventura colour as forma lucis is forma Dei. According to Barth, the lights of creation reflect Jesus Christ. Therefore forma lucis is forma creationis. Calvinistic theological form is open, and the Holy Spirit links God, reality and believer in an endless variety of images. God grants his own presence, and the clear white light of this presence shines on everyday life. This light is a prolepsis of the eschatological light. This theological aesthetics must be the startingpoint of Calvinistic theology, in which the forma lucis is forma lucis Spiritualis.
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