Receptions and Transformations of the Bible
Published on 22. April 2009
188 pages
978-87-7124-252-2 (ISBN)
Description
These volumes of Religion and Normativity present the latest research in three central fields. Volume II deals with Reception and Transformation of the Bible as it occurs in modern literature (in both Danish and English), philosophy (including Kierkegaard), and Jewish and Christian religious practice. The researchers base their work on the theories and methods of the study of religion, philosophy, theology and literature.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Colophon
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Kirsten Nielsen
- Normativity
- General Reflections. Receptions and transformations of the Bible
- Receptions and transformations of the Bible in literature
- Receptions and transformations of the Bible in philosophy
- Receptions and transformations of the Bible in religious communities
- The Bible as norm, the Bible as inspiration
- Part I
- Receptions and transformations of the Bible in literature
- General reflections
- Receptions and Transformations of the Bible in Literature
- David Bugge
- The Bible in literature: a typology
- Retelling
- Further writing
- Rewriting
- Counter writing
- Writing as such
- Main example: the Cain figure in literature
- Retelling (Cain)
- Further writing (Cain)
- Rewriting (Cain)
- Counter writing (Cain)
- Writing as such (Cain)
- Bibliography
- Necessary Fiction
- Investigating Powers of Depiction Reception and Transformation in the novel Doré's Bible by Torgny Lindgren
- Kirsten M. Andersen
- The art of the novel
- Doré's Bible
- Authority and power
- Fire: fury, destruction and the elementary
- Condition of life
- Bibliography
- Fantasising the Fall
- The Reception and Transformation of the Bible in Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials
- Laura Feldt
- Introduction
- Summary of and introduction to His Dark Materials
- Reception and transformation
- 1 Rewritings of the biblical Fall narrative in His Dark Materials
- 2 The anthropological vision in His Dark Materials
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- The Imaginary Paradise of the Novel
- The Reception and Transformation of a Biblical Theme in Milan Kundera
- David Bugge
- 1. The morality of the novel
- 2. Make-up on desolation
- 3. The imaginary paradise of the novel
- 4. A modern version of the Gospel
- Bibliography
- Standing on the shoulders of giants with my head between my feet
- A minister's reflections on reception and transformation in the fiction of Martin A. Hansen
- Jakob Nissen
- The Son of Mary
- The Birds
- A different kind of normativity
- Bibliography
- Part II
- Receptions and transformations of the Bible in philosophy
- General Reflections
- Wrestling with the text
- Marie Vejrup Nielsen
- 'My dear Reader'
- Reception and Transformation in the Writings of Kierkegaard
- Iben Damgaard
- The young man as a reader of the Book of Job
- Job as a spokesman
- Job as clothing and alcohol
- Job as figure of repetition
- Reading as repetition
- The Upbuilding Discourse: Job as prototype
- Closing words
- Bibliography
- Finding the True Jesus?
- Reception and Transformation of the Jesus Figure in the Homiletics and Sermons of Løgstrup
- Maria Louise Odgaard Møller
- Introduction
- Løgstrup's reception and transformation of the Jesus image in the gospels
- Examples from the sermons
- Løgstrup's image of Jesus - a reduction
- Outlining an alternative to Løgstrup's approach: Ricoeur's biblical hermeneutic
- Normativity, reception and transformation - two different approaches
- Bibliography
- Answering Job's Challenge
- Reception and Transformation in Evolutionary Theory
- Marie Vejrup Nielsen
- Biblical reception
- A context of conflict
- Evolutionary biology and the involvement with literature and narratives
- Creation received and transformed
- Adam and Eve transformed
- Genesis confronted
- Empowered Job
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part III
- Receptions and transformations of the Bible in religious communities
- General reflections
- Addressed by scripture
- Marianne Schleicher
- Bibliography
- The many faces of the Torah
- Reception and transformation of the Torah in Jewish Communities
- Marianne Schleicher
- The Torah as a holy object
- Transitivity as a consequence of artefactual use
- The Torah in between object and text
- The Torah as a text?
- The function of the rare cases of textual use
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- A Theology of Scriptural Performance
- Reception and Transformation in Christian Communities
- Johannes Nissen
- Bible reading as a transformative act
- The Christian community as the embodiment of Scripture
- Analogical imagination
- The Bible as transformative narrative
- The performance of the text
- Reception and transformation in the Christian worship
- The problem of normativity in the interaction between Bible and community
- Bibliography
- Responding to God
- Reception and Transformation in Christian Hymns
- Kirsten Nielsen
- The Bible as intertext for the Danish hymn book (DDS)
- The great precursors
- Reception and transformation in a Danish hymn
- Imagery in the Bible and in the hymns
- Selected biblical images of God and their application in recent hymns: God as a person
- The role of nature: light
- Danish flowers and biblical hawthorn hedges
- Experiences of nature and historical events
- The language of the Bible and the language of philosophy
- Biblical normativity as theological challenge
- Bibliography
- About the authors
