Orthodoxy, Liberalism, and Adaptation
Essays on Ways of Worldmaking in Times of Change from Biblical, Historical and Systematic Perspectives
Published on 25. August 2011
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-90-04-20869-8 (ISBN)
Description
How does religion cope with changing situations? Are orthodoxy and liberalism really competing strategies? The essays in this volume argue three views. (1)Orthodoxy is not to be seen as the real and original form of a given religion, but as an idealized original form that should be construed as a construction in reaction to changes in time. (2) Over the ages, liberalism - despite its laudable strive for adaptation - has been less successful than generally assumed. This lesson from history can be quite important in view of the adaptation processes for Muslims in Western Europe. (3) Of great importance for the survival of religion seems to be a clear definition of the boundaries of religiously informed practices and ethics. Their recognisability and authenticity shall - when combined with a due lack of obtrusion - be of great influence for the ongoing acceptance of religion(s) in the public domain.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
All those interested in the interface between religion and society in past and present, historians, sociologists of religion, biblical scholars
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Laminated cover
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
616 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-20869-8 (9789004208698)
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Bob Becking, Ph.D. (1985) in Theology, Utrecht University, is Senior Research Professor for Bible, religion and Identity at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University. He published extensively on the history of the religion in Ancient Israel and on questions concerning the interpretation of the Hebrw Bible. He was one of the Editors of the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (Brill, 1999)
Content
Introduction: Why This Volume
Bob Becking (Utrecht University)
Chapter One: Religious Orthodoxy as a Modality of "Adaptation"
Staf Hellemans (Tilburg University)
Part II
BIBLICAL STUDIES
Chapter Two: Does an Exclusive Veneration of God Necessarily Have to Be Violent? Israel's Stony Way to Monotheism and Some Theological Consequences
Rainer Albertz (University of Muenster)
Chapter Three: Coping with Violence in the Bible: A Response to Rainer Albertz
Jan Willem van Henten (University of Amsterdam)
Chapter Four: "Common Judaism", "the Parting of the Ways", and "the Johannine Community"
Adele Reinhartz (University of Toronto)
Part III
HISTORICAL STUDIES
Chapter Five: Believing, Belonging, and Adapting. The Case of Religious Modernism
Ernestine van der Wall (Leiden University)
Chapter Six: "When Creed and Morals Rot ...": Orthodoxies versus Liberalisms in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands Reformed Church
David J. Bos (Utrecht University)
Chapter Seven: Truth, Orthodoxy, and the Nouvelle Theologie: Truth as Issue in a "Second Modernist Crisis" (1946-1950)
Juergen Mettepenningen (Leuven University)
Part IV
SYSTEMATIC STUDIES
Chapter Eight: Orthodoxy, History and Theology: Recontextualisation and Its Descriptive and Programmatic Features
Lieven Boeve (Catholic University Leuven)
Chapter Nine: Orthopraxis and Being Faithful to One's Tradition
Peter Jonkers (Tilburg University)
Chapter Ten: Reconstructing the Change from Judaism to Christianity as a Paradigm Shift
Dirk-Martin Grube (Utrecht University)
Chapter Eleven: Christian Fundamentalism as a Reaction to the Enlightenment Illustrated by the Case of Biblical Inerrancy
Marcel Sarot (Utrecht University)
Part V
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter Twelve: The Ambivalence of Adaptation and the Ongoing Strength of Religion
Bob Becking (Utrecht University)
Bob Becking (Utrecht University)
Chapter One: Religious Orthodoxy as a Modality of "Adaptation"
Staf Hellemans (Tilburg University)
Part II
BIBLICAL STUDIES
Chapter Two: Does an Exclusive Veneration of God Necessarily Have to Be Violent? Israel's Stony Way to Monotheism and Some Theological Consequences
Rainer Albertz (University of Muenster)
Chapter Three: Coping with Violence in the Bible: A Response to Rainer Albertz
Jan Willem van Henten (University of Amsterdam)
Chapter Four: "Common Judaism", "the Parting of the Ways", and "the Johannine Community"
Adele Reinhartz (University of Toronto)
Part III
HISTORICAL STUDIES
Chapter Five: Believing, Belonging, and Adapting. The Case of Religious Modernism
Ernestine van der Wall (Leiden University)
Chapter Six: "When Creed and Morals Rot ...": Orthodoxies versus Liberalisms in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands Reformed Church
David J. Bos (Utrecht University)
Chapter Seven: Truth, Orthodoxy, and the Nouvelle Theologie: Truth as Issue in a "Second Modernist Crisis" (1946-1950)
Juergen Mettepenningen (Leuven University)
Part IV
SYSTEMATIC STUDIES
Chapter Eight: Orthodoxy, History and Theology: Recontextualisation and Its Descriptive and Programmatic Features
Lieven Boeve (Catholic University Leuven)
Chapter Nine: Orthopraxis and Being Faithful to One's Tradition
Peter Jonkers (Tilburg University)
Chapter Ten: Reconstructing the Change from Judaism to Christianity as a Paradigm Shift
Dirk-Martin Grube (Utrecht University)
Chapter Eleven: Christian Fundamentalism as a Reaction to the Enlightenment Illustrated by the Case of Biblical Inerrancy
Marcel Sarot (Utrecht University)
Part V
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter Twelve: The Ambivalence of Adaptation and the Ongoing Strength of Religion
Bob Becking (Utrecht University)