Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation : The Foundational Character of Authoritative Sources in the History of Christianity and Judaism /

Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation : The Foundational Character of Authoritative Sources in the History of Christianity and Judaism /

The essays collected in this book deal with the question how, throughout the history of Christianity, Christian communities have tried to construct their identity by anchoring their views in authoritative and normative sources. The main focus is upon the problem of historical foundation through text...

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Other Authors: Frishman, Judith (Editor), Otten, Willemien (Editor), Rouwhorst, Gerard (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.

Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series; 8.
Jewish and Christian Perspectives Online, ISBN: 9789004427556.

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Church history > Historiography > Congresses.
Judaism > Historiography > Congresses.
Church history > Historiography.

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Call Number: BR140.5

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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Willemien Otten and Theo Salemink - Prologue: Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation
  • 2. Charles Hallisey - The Surprise of Scripture's Advice
  • PART I: IDENTITY AND MODERNITY
  • A. Catholicism
  • 3. Urs Altermatt - The Ambivalence of Catholic Modernisation
  • 4. Staf Hellemans - How Modern is Religion in Modernity?
  • 5. Anton Houtepen - Modernity and the Crisis of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century. The Case of Papal Infallibility
  • 6. Theo Clemens - A Textbook for Theological Formation from Mechelen. Its Importance for the Identity of the Roman Catholic Clergy in the Netherlands
  • B. Protestantism
  • 7. Frits Broeyer - Reformed Notions of Identity: The Dutch Reformed Church Between 1829 and 1869
  • 8. David Bos - University Education as a Mark of Ministerial Identity in Nineteenth Century Dutch Protestantism
  • 9. Jan Jongeneel - Mission in a Globalizing World: Christ, Christianity and the Remaking World Order
  • C. Judaism
  • 10. Judith Frishman - True Mosaic Religion. Samuel Hirsch, Samuel Holdhiem and the Reform of Judaism
  • 11. Els Kooij-Bas - The Brunswick Rabbinical Conference and Anti-Reform Response on the Questions of Authority
  • 12. Theo Salemink - Modernity as Neo-Paganism. A Catholic Answer to Liberalism, Socialism and National Socialism
  • PART II: SOURCES OF AUTHORITY FROM EARLY CHRISTIAN TO POSTMODERN TIMES
  • A. The Early Church
  • 13. Jaap van Amersfoort - Pagan Sources in the Pseudo-Clementine Novel
  • 14. Johannes van Oort - The Emergence of Gnostic-Manichaean Christianity as a Case of Religious Identity in the Making
  • B. The Middle Ages
  • 15. Karla Pollmann - Re-Appropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus
  • 16. Gerard Pieter Freeman - St.Francis - God's Authority and the Pope's Approval
  • 17. Daniela Müller - Heretical Religious Women and the Authority of Traditional Sources
  • 18. Willemien Otten - Authority and Identity in the Transition from Monastic to Scholastic Theology: Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
  • 19. Marcia Colish - Authority and Interpretation in Scholastic Theology
  • 20. Jan Hallebeek - The Roman Pontiff as Direct Judge of Appeal and the Identity of the Latin Church
  • C. From Reformation to Postmodernity
  • 21. Eugène Honée - Die Autorität von Schrift und Tradition in den Religionsverhandlungen des Augsburger Reichstages vom Jahre 1530. (With an
  • English Summary)
  • 22. Paul van Geest - Transformation in Order and Desire. Thomas a Kempis' Indebtedness to St. Augustine
  • 23. Willem van Asselt - Scholaticism Protestant and Catholic: Medieval Sources and Methods in Seventeenth Reformed Thought
  • 24. Marcel Poorthuis - The Improperia on Trial. On a Recent Debate in the Netherlands between Jews, Protestants and Roman-Catholics
  • 25. Gerard Rouwhorst - Historical Periods as Normative Sources. The Appeal to the Past in the Research on Liturgical History
  • 26. Peter van Rooden - Power and Piety in Contemporary Church History and Social Science
  • D. Christian Origins: A Continuing Debate
  • 27. Frances Young - Books and Their 'Aura': the Functions of Written Texts in Judaism, Paganism and Christianity during the First Centuries CE
  • 28. Elizabeth Clark - Creating Foundations, Creating Authorities: Reading Practices and Christian Identities.