Orthodoxy, Liberalism, and Adaptation

Essays on Ways of Worldmaking in Times of Change from Biblical, Historical and Systematic Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20869-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

Reihe: Studies in Theology and Religion

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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the interface between religion and society in past and present, historians, sociologists of religion, biblical scholars

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becking, Bob E J H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Münster)

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 Théologie: Truth as Issue in a “Second Modernist Crisis” (1946-1950)
Jürgen 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)

Über Autor(innen)

Becking, Bob E J H
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)