scholarly journals Stromab - Gedanken zur Hermeneutik biblischer Texte im Kontext der neueren angelsächsischen Diskussion

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-300
Author(s):  
J. A. Loader
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Biblical Hermeneutics ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Systematic Reflection ◽  
English Speaking World

Downstream - On Biblical hermeneutics in the context of the recent Anglo-Saxon debateThis paper, delivered at the 2000 meeting of the Rudolf Bultmann Society at Hofgeismar in Germany, offers a survey of recent developments in literary criticism in the English-speaking world. Contributions to the systematic reflection on issues relevant for theology are also considered and the author’s own proposal is outlined. It is argued that the hermeneutic character of theology remains necessary in the Christian tradition. This is, however, not founded on the proposition of the linguistic nature of revelation, but on the fact that theology is the reflective human speaking about God.

Political Theory: Truth and Consequences

1958 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The West ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Communist Countries

Bertrand de Jouvenel is one of a very small group of writers in our own time who make a serious effort to develop political theory in the grand style. In the English-speaking world, where so many of the interesting political problems have been solved (at least superficially), political theory is dead. In the Communist countries it is imprisoned. Elsewhere it is moribund. In the West, this is the age of textual criticism and historical analysis, when the student of political theory makes his way by rediscovering some deservedly obscure text or reinterpreting a familiar one. Political theory (like literary criticism) is reduced to living off capital—other people's capital at that.

The Early Reception of Karl Barth's Theology in Britain: A Supplementary View

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-527
Author(s):  
D. Densil Morgan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Church History ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
To Come ◽  
English Speaking World

One of the axioms of modern church history in Britain is that whereas Anglo-Saxon thought was on the whole impervious to the appeal and achievement of Karl Barth, it was among the Scots alone that the Swiss theologian's theories found any real resonance and creative response. Stephen Sykes in a 1979 volume of studies in Barth's theological method, mentions the somewhat bewildered response to his publications in Britain and the United States between 1925 and the mid-1980s and goes on to say that ‘from now onwards it is in Scotland that Barth is taken with the greatest seriousness in the English speaking world’. In a later volume of centenary essays, R. H. Roberts traced the reception of the theology of Karl Barth ‘in the Anglo-Saxon world’ by quoting the evidence of such late 1920s and early 1930s figures as J. H. Morrison, John McConnachie, H. R. Mackintosh, Norman Porteous and A. J. MacDonald to claim that ‘it is clear from an early stage that enthusiasm for Barth's work … was primarily a Scottish attribute’. In another essay in the same volume, Colin Gunton contrasted the usual English attitude to Barth with that of theologians from other lands: ‘For the most part and despite exceptions’, he claimed, ‘the English find it difficult to come to terms with the theology of Karl Barth’, while in a companion volume Geoffrey Bromiley noted that this was hardly the case for theologians and pastors ‘in such diverse lands as Switzerland, Germany, France, Holland, Hungary, and Scotland’. Again and again, it is Scotland which is emphasised as being the place within the British Isles where Barth's ideals took root.

The Debate About Honest to God

1964 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-278
Author(s):  
J. A. B. Holland
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Contemporary State ◽  
German Scholar ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Radical Movement

Honest to God has been the theological sensation of the decade, at least so far as the English-speaking world is concerned. The Honest to God Debate is the sequel and can appropriately be considered along with the former book. It consists of an introductory chapter by Rev. David Edwards, which is a sympathetic account of the contemporary radical movement in theology, of which the Bishop of Woolwich has become the most celebrated exponent, followed by a brief chapter by the Vicar of Leeds on reactions in the Church of England, the Church most immediately involved. Third, there is a series of readers' letters on Honest to God, edited by David Edwards, which is a striking indication of the contemporary state of confusion among laymen concerning the verities of the faith. The main body of the latter book consists of twenty-three reviews of Honest to God, by all sorts of men, Christian clergy and laity of all varieties and atheists, in many countries. Perhaps the most noteworthy of these are those by Rudolf Bultmann, the great German scholar and exegete to whom Dr Robinson is so conscious of his debt, and Father Herbert McCabe, O.P., the longest review to be printed. I must pay a tribute to the latter review, in spite of the apparent unfamiliarity of the categories in which it is expressed. Even though I am Protestant and Reformed, I found, on closer analysis, that Father McCabe had, with very few exceptions (notably his inevitably greater ethical rigorism), said exactly what should have been said about the book.

Dissent from Mt. Ventoux: Between Christian and Secular Humanism in Petrarch’s de Ascensu Montis Ventosi

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-96
Author(s):  
Erik Z. D. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
Renaissance Studies ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Petrarch’s letter de Ascensu Montis Ventosi has long served as the founding document of “renaissance humanism”. Since thebeginning of renaissance studies in the mid-nineteenth century, the letter has become almost a talisman for summoning the new, secular spirit of humanism that spontaneously arrived in Italy in the fourteenth century, took hold of the hearts and minds of Europeans in the fifteenth century, and led to cataclysmic cultural, religious, and political changes in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This reading, still common among non-specialists, especially in the English-speaking world, is overly simplistic and ignores Petrarch’s profound debt to classical and Christian tradition, obscuring the fundamentally religious character of the letter. This article examines how scholars came to assign the letter so much importance and offers an interpretation that stresses Petrarch’s continuity with tradition and his desire to revitalize rather than reinvent the traditions of Christian scholarship and contemplation.

Socialist Management in Algeria

1977 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Nellis
Keyword(s):  
French Literature ◽  
Third World ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Socialist State ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Third World

Algeria is important for its wealth, for its size and location, for the dynamism and austerity of its leadership, and for its pretensions to socialism and leadership of the Third World. Clearly, an imposing list. Yet the Algerian approach to development is little known and insufficiently understood, at least in the English-speaking world. In France, on the contrary, and throughout la francophonie, Algerian movements and events are closely watched and intensely debated. Much of the controversy has concentrated on the question as to whether or not Algeria deserves its self-proclaimed status as a socialist state; 1 the celebrated autogestion effort of the 1960s has been thoroughly and carefully analysed,2 and the nationalisations of foreign oil companies – as well as a few other salient economic enterprises – have received considerable attention.3 It should be noted that the extensive French literature on post-1962 Algeria has focused on events up to 1971, though a few materials on more recent developments are beginning to emerge,4 and that a small number of articles in English on major Algerian programmes, such as la révolution agraire, have recently been published.5

scholarly journals Grundtvig i angelsaksisk kontekst

1994 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-268
Author(s):  
Peter Balslev-Clausen
Keyword(s):  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

Grundtvig in Anglo-Saxon context.Heritage and Prophecy. Grundtvig and the English-Speaking World. Edited by A.M. Allchin, D. Jasper; J.H. Schj.rring and K. Stevenson. Aarhus University Press, .rhus 1993. 330 s. ISBN 87 7288 447 9. Skrifter udgivet af Grundtvig-Selskabet, bind XXIV.Reviewed by Peter Balslev-Clausen

Worldliness or Unwordliness? The Issue between Bonhoeffer and Bultmann as seen by Ronald Gregor Smith

1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 531-549
Author(s):  
Keith Clements
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
World War ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Second World

The names of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rudolf Bultmann have frequently and inevitably been associated in theological debate since the Second World War. On a popular level in the English-speaking world, it was perhaps J. A. T. Robinson's Honest to God (1963) which most notably placed Bonhoeffer alongside Bultmann, along with Tillich, as close allies in the search for a fresh and viable understanding of God.

Inventing the Cave Man

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Horrall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Freak Shows ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

Cave men are among the most widely recognised characters in global popular culture. They look like modern humans and inhabit a humorously archaic, but scientifically invalid version of the contemporary world. They battle dinosaurs, use comic technology like foot-powered cars, and drag women by the hair. This illustrated book is the first systematic investigation of the character’s evolution from pre-modern freak shows and fascinations with apes, to mid-nineteenth century evidence of dinosaurs, ancient hominids and evolution. Suddenly, long-held scientific and religious beliefs came into question, provoking public debates that inspired British satirical magazines, performers in the emerging entertainment industry, writers and eventually filmmakers and television companies. Ancient hominids were first depicted as explicitly simian and threatening, though by the end of the century the familiar, modern cave man had emerged. Humour has always been the most common tone for evoking human prehistory, because it allowed unsettling subjects to be addressed indirectly. As evolutionary ideas became more acceptable and Europe’s ancient past became better known, cartoonists began using prehistory to satirise contemporary middle-class Britain. Their cave men looked like the male, Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of that world, while the situations they depicted affirmed Victorian ideas about race, gender, nation and empire. This British cave man travelled throughout the English-speaking world, establishing the broad parameters within which our earliest ancestors continue to be depicted in popular culture.

Explanations for the Restrained Development of the Dutch Cinema Market in the 1930s

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 634-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sedgwick ◽  
Clara Pafort-Overduin ◽  
Jaap Boter
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Complex Mixture ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Dutch Experience ◽  
Dutch People

Cinemagoing in the Netherlands during the 1930s appears to have been much less intense than in the English-speaking world. To support this assertion we examine film attendance and diffusion in the Dutch market by recourse to a new large dataset, and contrast it with observations drawn from recent research on the Anglo-Saxon countries (United States, United Kingdom, and Australia). In setting down the economic principles behind the organisation of the film industry that best describe the Anglo-Saxon model, we show how the Dutch experience differed in scale, but not in type. To investigate the reasons for this, we examine the idea that film consumption in the Netherlands was constrained through the operation of informal institutional pressures. In particular, we investigate the influence that the vertical stratification of Dutch society into distinct religious and ideological strands may have had on the filmgoing appetites of the Dutch people. A further investigation looks at the combination of exhibitors and distributors into a single industry cartel and its impact upon prices and cinema building. The paper concludes that a complex mixture of cultural, economic, institutional, and social factors were at play, causing the Dutch people to be an outlier as far as film provision and consumption was concerned.

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