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1.	Appelfeldt, Joel, 1983- (författare) Dopet som hantverk : Gudstjänstkreativitet och liturgisk taktik i Svenska kyrkan och Equmeniakyrkan. 2023 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Under en längre period har den praktiska teologin undersökt ”den levda tron” i kyrka och samhälle. Men trots att alltfler studier intresserat sig för partikulära liturgiska situationer har lite skrivits som pastorer och präster som liturgiska aktörer. Därtill finns ett tydligt under- skott på teoretiska verktyg för analys inom praktikorienterade studier inom praktisk teologi.Syftet med denna avhandling är därför att fördjupa förståelsen av pastorer och präster som liturgiska aktörer. Det görs med hjälp av teoretiska perspektiv som utvecklas i dialog med Michel de Certeau, Jonna Bornemark och Bruno Latour som sedan används för att analysera samtida doppraktiker i Equmeniakyrkan och Svenska kyrkan. Genom begreppen strategi och taktik (de Certeau), omdömet (Bornemark) och actor-network theory (Latour) sätts den hantverksmässiga aspekten av liturgens roll i förgrunden och bidrar till en fördjupad och rikare bild av dopsituationen. Studien visar hur liturger, genom bruk av kyrkohandbok och kyrkorum, utövar ett kreativt liturgiskt hantverk i samverkan med andra liturgiska aktörer och genom sitt omdöme. Med hjälp en abduktiv metod bidrar denna studie även med ut- vecklingen av fyra teoretiska perspektiv som kan anpassas och användas för att studera andra liturgiska situationer.Denna studie bygger på ett antal deltagande observationer av dop, och semi-strukture- rade intervjuer med präster och pastorer som genomfört dessa dop. Ambitionen har varit att försöka komma nära dopsituationerna. Analysen visar på detaljnivå hur dessa liturgiska hantverkare anpassar, justerar, utökar, omstrukturerar och vidgar det (strategiskt) givna i dopsituationen. Vidare undersöks olika motiv för detta liturgiska hantverk liksom resurser som bidrar till liturgens förmåga. Inte minst visar resultatet att pastorer och präster, i sitt vardagliga liturgiska arbete, utför ett teologiskt kreativt arbete som har implikationer för flera aspekter av liturgisk teologi.Studien berör teman som (1) förhållandet mellan subjekt och struktur i liturgiska situa- tioner, (2) praktisk kunskap som en viktig aspekt av liturgiskt handlande, (3) liturgisk för- ändring, (4) liturgens betydelse för liturgi och liturgisk teologi, (5) sociomateriella aspekter av liturgi. Sammantagen bidrar detta till (6) teoriutveckling inom praktisk teologi.
2.	Arctic Justice : Environment, Society and Governance 2023 Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities and failures of justice for environment and society in the region. Inspired by key thinkers in justice, this book highlights the real and practical consequences of postcolonial legacies, climate change and the regions’ incorporation into the international political economy. The chapters feature liberal, cosmopolitan, feminist, as well as critical justice perspectives from experts with decades of research experience in the Arctic. Moving from a critique of current failures, the collection champions a just and sustainable future for Arctic development and governance.
3.	Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976- (författare) A Venture into Dark Mariology 2023 Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The Akathistos is a mysterious piece of poetry and probably the most important Marian song of the Byzantine realm. Apart from the fact that nobody knows who wrote it and when, it has a peculiar constitution: As opposed to much kontakion hymnography, it lacks a narrative development; instead it depends on flourishing imagery which slings itself out in intertwining scrolls. Thus it appears as a spatially oriented composition. At the same time, the Akathistos – despite later iconographic domestication of its otherwise wild and sprawling metaphorical growth – confronts us with perplexing images and unimaginable spaces. Having discussed such tensions, I will venture into what I call the “dark mariology” of the hymn and explore how the salutations’ obscure imagery associates the Theotokos with landscapes and fields – where the Logos incarnates into more-than-human flesh – and downplays her human forms in ways that yield an earthier and more dispersed Marian imagination.
4.	Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-, et al. (författare) Byzantine Tree Life : Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination 2021 Bok (refereegranskat)abstract This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves. Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine.
5.	Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976- (författare) Byzantine Tree Life [book presentation] 2023 Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
6.	Arentzen, Thomas, 1976- (författare) Conversing with Clothes : Germanos and Mary’s Belt 2020 Ingår i: The Garb of Being. - New York : Fordham University Press. - 9780823287024 - 9780823287031 ; , s. 57-78 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
7.	Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976- (författare) Landscape Theology : Exploring the Outfields of the Telemarkian Dream Song 2020 Ingår i: Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language. - 1448-0778. ; 10:1 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The article explores the Norwegian ‘national ballad’ Draumkvæde (the Dream Song) in Maren Ramskeid’s version. This work has traditionally been interpreted as a folklore adaptation of medieval visionary literature such as the Vision of Tundale, related to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The ballad, however, lacks demons and devils and infernal torture – it is even almost completely devoid of human beings. Instead it tells of a corporeal encounter with an imagined natural landscape. This dreamscape of the song is intimately intertwined with the local terrain of the singer. Maren Ramskeid engaged her own landscape in Telemark, the article argues, to decentre the canonized Christian text and the cultivated Christian building. Speaking an oral outdoor theology, she destabilized the heaven–hell dualism and envisioned a mythological landscape where nature turns dangerously and painfully on those who do not abide by its unwritten norms, but where all are eventually saved by a final judgement in a place called Broksvalin.
8.	Arentzen, Thomas, 1976- (författare) Livnende stoff, elementers lengsel : En nymaterialistisk inngang til Elias Blix’ dåpssalme (145) 2021 Ingår i: SANG. - 2597-0518. ; :1-2, s. 57-67 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract As the father of Lutheran hymns in the Norwegian Nynorsk language, Elias Blix (1836-1902) looms in the Scandinavian country’s songculture, and his compositions remain popular, both inside and outsidethe church. Blix lent significant space to the more-than-human in his poetry, expressing the Christian gospel in the changing of seasonsor the budding of plants. This article explores a baptismal hymn from a new-materialist perspective. It demonstrates how the poet cast the initiation rite as a dynamic, erotic dance between the two elements of water and spirit/breath/air. With what one might call an ecocentric sensibility, Blix adumbrated a Christian understanding that decenters the human, as baptismal transformation unfolds with the agency of the elements.
9.	Arentzen, Thomas, 1976- (författare) Romanos Meloden: "Julhymn 2" 2021 Ingår i: Mariologi. - Skellefteå : Artos & Norma bokförlag. - 9789177771838 ; , s. 177-188 Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
10.	Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-, et al. (författare) Rubenson on the Move : A Biographical Journey 2020 Ingår i: Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004430693 - 9789004430747 ; , s. 247-250 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
11.	Arentzen, Thomas, 1976- (författare) Sex and the City : Intercourse in Holy Week 2020 Ingår i: Journal of early Christian studies (Print). - : Project Muse. - 1067-6341 .- 1086-3184. ; 28:1, s. 115-147 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract The last days before Easter are called Holy Week or Passion Week in most Christian calendars. The early history of these pre-paschal days is, however, obscure, and their historiography leaves much to be desired. This is particularlytrue of Holy Week observance in late ancient Constantinople. Was there even something that could be called a Holy Week in the imperial capital? The relative silence of liturgical handbooks regarding these days have led some liturgical scholars to give a negative answer to that question. This article revisits the problem, but approaches it from a different angle: What do hymns written for the week before the celebration of the resurrection tell us? Focusing on Monday to Wednesday, the present study demonstrates that singers and congregations intoned remarkable and dramatic songs between Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday. Yet, rather than bewailing the imminent crucifixion or praising the resurrection, the hymnographers labored to read existential struggles of life and death in the sexual bodies of the congregated late ancientcity dwellers.
12.	Arentzen, Thomas, et al. (författare) Sexuality and Orthodoxy : An Introduction 2022 Ingår i: Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality. - New York : Fordham University Press. - 9780823299690 - 9780823299676 - 9780823299683 ; , s. 1-20 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
13.	Arentzen, Thomas, et al. (författare) Some Early Christian Trees 2021 Ingår i: Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019 : Volume 1: Introduction; Historica - Volume 1: Introduction; Historica. - Leuven : Peeters Publishers. - 9789042947443 - 9789042947450 ; 104, s. 127-137 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract In the wake of the current environmental crisis, scholars of late antique Christianity are beginning to study Christian attitudes towards the natural world. How did the early Christians relate to their environment? This article explores perceptions of trees, surveying the writings of Tertullian, Basil of Caesarea, and Sozomen the historian. What did an arboreal plant do, according to patristic authors? What kind of agency did they imagine trees to have? The investigation shows that members of the educated elite might think of trees as bodies with living, intelligent souls; they saw complex variety and gendered creatures with personal characteristics when they gazed at beings in bark. Certain arboreal species engaged in and were communicating through a sexual-life; many individuals made rational choices. Although trees are not free to move around, Christians assumed that boughs and branches could bend in devotion as trees expressed attention to divine presence.
14.	Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976- (författare) Songs about Women : [by] Romanos the Melodist 2024 Bok (refereegranskat)abstract At a time when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in the Byzantine Roman Empire, Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485–565) was a composer of songs for festivals and rituals in late antique Constantinople. Most of his songs include dramatic dialogues or monologues woven with imagery from ordinary life, and his name became inseparably tied to the kontakion, a genre of dramatic hymn. Later Byzantine religious poets enthusiastically praised his creative virtuosity and a legend claimed that Romanos’s inspiration came directly from the Virgin Mary herself.Songs about Women contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important female characters, many portrayed as models for Christian life. They appear as heroines and villains, saints and sinners, often as transgressive and bold. Romanos’s songs offer intriguing perspectives on gender ideals and women’s roles in the early Byzantine world.This edition presents a new translation of the Byzantine Greek texts into English.
15.	Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-, et al. (författare) Ta i trä : Om att återupptäcka de kristna träden 2022 Ingår i: En grönare kyrka. - Bromma : Libris. - 1403-2856. - 9789173879750 ; , s. 79-101 Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
16.	Arentzen, Thomas (författare) The Chora of God : Approaching the Outskirts of Mariology in the Akathistos 2021 Ingår i: Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. - : Project Muse. - 2574-4968 .- 2574-495X. ; 4:2, s. 127-149 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract This article explores the more-than-human characterization of the Theotokos in the famous Akathistos Hymn. The Mother of God emerged as an intercessional figure in the Christian imagination during late antiquity, but the formative period of mariology is still partly uncharted territory to modern scholarship. Reflecting on its rich landscape imagery and chora language, the article argues that the Akathistos minimizes the human traits of the Theotokos, rendering her more as a spatial phenomenon. In the hymn, we may glimpse traces of Marian ideas less developed during subsequent periods, ideas which gesture toward what we may call a "dark mariology." The Logos incarnates into more than human flesh, and the womb has a close affinity with the landscape. The Akathistos evokes the vision of a wider nonhuman participation in the incarnation rooted in the natural landscape of the Theotokos.
17.	Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-, et al. (författare) Wisdom on the Move : An Introduction 2020 Ingår i: Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation. - Leiden : Brill Nijhoff. - 0920-623X. - 9789004430693 - 9789004430747 ; , s. 1-10 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
18.	Asserhed, Björn, 1973- (författare) Gardens in the Wasteland : Christian Formation in Three Swedish Church Plants 2024 Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Gardens in the Wasteland is an ethnographic study of Christian formation within three Swedish church plants working against a backdrop of advanced secularisation. The thesis analyses the formative practices employed by these church plants with the intention of forming persons towards a lived Christian identity. Employing a situated learning theory framework, it traces the formative trajectories and negotiations that emerge from these shared practices, and also examines the articulations of callings and intentions within these church plants.The findings reveal that the establishment of a church plant often stems from a sense of place-oriented calling that encompasses a vision of vibrant Christian life and community. These church plants cultivate formative practices – aimed at certain teloi – that guide individuals on their journeys towards a lived Christian identity. Through participation in these practices, individuals align themselves with the church plant’s vision of Christian life. This identity formation process is not static but rather involves ongoing negotiations, both on a personal and community level, as individuals grapple with the meaning of Christian identity and faith amidst an increasingly secularised society.
19.	Beogradski nadbiskup : Dvadeset godina arhipastirske službe nadbiskupa Stanislava Hočevara – dokumenti i svedočanstva 2023 Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
20.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Apocryphal Acts among Greek Biographies and Paradoxographies : A Question of Genre 2022 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles are often viewed as Christian counterparts to the ancient novels – a genre that certainly reflects their fictional character, but neither their fascination with the foreign, strange, and miraculous, nor their focus on named historical figures such as the apostles. These interests are rather the defining features of the ancient genres of paradoxography and biography, where the latter includes mostly fictional works on historical or even mythological figures such as Heracles. This paper uses cognitive genre theory to analyze how the Apocryphal Acts participate in both of these two ancient genres.
21.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Att möta vilddjuren i egna kläder : Mänsklig värdighet på arenan i Karthago 2022 Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
22.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Att möta vilddjuren i egna kläder : Kultur, status och värdighet på arenan i Karthago 2023 Ingår i: Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift. - 0039-6761. ; 99:3, s. 215-228 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Motsättningar inom ett samhälle blir sällan skarpare än när människor avrättas för att ha brutit mot samhällsgemenskapens grundläggande normer. En ideologisk text som tillkommit i en sådan situation kan därför förväntas skildra kontrasten mellan samhället och den egna gruppen i tydligast möjliga ordalag, även om skillnaderna i faktiska värderingar inte alltid är så stora. Ett gott exempel på detta är Perpetuas och Felicitas martyrium, där vi har goda skäl att tro oss möta en ung kvinnas egen berättelse om sina upplevelser, känslor och visioner inför mötet med vilddjuren på den romerska arenan i Karthago. Med hjälp av Kathryn Tanners kulturteori kan vi urskilja de beteendemönster som framstår som normer och ideal i martyriet, och inse att de visioner och den oberördhet inför döden som etablerar Perpetuas auktoritet är väletablerade ideal även inom den grekisk-romerska kulturen. De värderingar som skiljer martyriets ideologi från det omgivande samhället är två: normen att vägra offra till de grekisk-romerska gudarna och föreställningen att alla människor, oavsett samhällelig status, äger en inneboende värdighet.
23.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Between Biography and Paradoxography : Unveiling the Genre of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles 2021 Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract The extra-canonical Acts of the apostles John, Paul, Peter, Andrew, and Thomas have traditionally been understood as heretical offshoots from the canonical Acts of the Apostles, complementing the canonical material in order to promulgate an alternative version of early Christianity. This view not only overemphasizes the dogmatic difference between their authors and other early Christians, but also obstructs the crucial discussion about their genre.This paper argues that in the context of Greco-Roman literature, the apocryphal acts exhibit considerable resemblances to two established ancient genres: biography and paradoxography. Greco-Roman biography included not only the historiographically oriented bioi of well-known rulers and politicians, but also – at least at an earlier stage of its development – fictional narratives about historical figures, such as Xenophon’s Anabasis and Cyropaedia. Ancient paradoxography is a surprisingly little known genre that flourished from early Hellenistic times well into the Byzantine era. It was aimed at collecting descriptions of wonders (θαῦματα), strange things (ἴδια), and phenomena that goes against our expectations (παράδοξα) – not from observations of nature but from previous literary works. With their claims to chronicle the famous apostles’ wondrous deeds throughout the known world, the apocryphal acts can be said to participate in both of these genres.
24.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Between Biography and Paradoxography : Unveiling the Genre of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles 2022 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles are often viewed as Christian counterparts to the ancient novels – a genre that certainly reflects their fictional character, but neither their fascination with the foreign, strange, and miraculous, nor their focus on named historical figures such as the apostles. These interests are rather the defining features of the ancient genres of paradoxography and biography, where the latter includes mostly fictional works on historical or even mythological figures such as Heracles. This paper uses cognitive genre theory to analyze how the Apocryphal Acts participate in both of these two ancient genres.
25.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Biographical Mimesis in the Gospel of Mark 2022 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
26.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Den okända Pauluslärjungen Tekla – en förebild (inte bara) för kvinnor 2021 Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
27.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Discipleship Ideals from Mark to the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin 2021 Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract Viewed as part of the reception history of the New Testament, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles document a fascinating history of the development of the portrayal of the apostles, promoting various versions and accentuations of early Christian theology. This paper studies one aspect of this development, namely how the portrayal of an ideal Christian disciple is transformed from the Gospel of Mark to the Acts of Thomas and his Wonderworking Skin – a fourth- or fifth-century narrative in which Jesus sells Thomas as a slave in India. After displeasing his new master, Thomas is tortured and skinned alive, but manages to use his peeled-off skin to work miracles, and leads a large number of people to accept Christ. The discipleship ideals discernible from this story will be compared to similar ideals expressed in the Gospel of Mark, and the development between the two discussed.
28.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Discipleship Ideals in the Acts of Philip 2021 Ingår i: The Apostles Peter, Paul, John, Thomas and Philip with their Companions in Late Antiquity. - Leuven : Peeters Publishers. - 9789042945531 - 9789042945548 ; , s. 314-332 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract How we categorize early Christian literature has an immense impact on what we expect to find in these ancient writings, and how we are prepared to interpret them. Grouped with apocryphal gospels and apocalypses, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles have been viewed primarily as heretical writings, representing alternative Christianities that were effectually silenced by the processes of canonization. While they certainly contain evidence of such silenced theologies, the Acts themselves are more likely to be complementary writings, aiming to edify, educate and entertain early Christian readers without intention to replace or correct any canonical material. This chapter offers another angle on two early Christian stories, Acts of Philip 1 and Acts of Philip 8–Martyrdom of Philip. Regarded as parts of the reception history of the Synoptic Gospels, these stories will be found to interact with theological ideas expressed in the Gospels without necessarily setting out to either defend or correct them. More specifically, I study how ideals for early Christian discipleship – traits expected from an ideal Christian disciple – are transformed from the earlier Gospels to the later narratives about the apostle Philip.
29.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Elijah as an Archetype for the Apostles according to the Apocryphal Acts 2022 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract In Christian fiction from late antiquity, Christ’s apostles are given bread by angels, provide an inexhaustible food source, part the waters, and raise a widow’s son from the dead right before challenging their opponent to a duel of miracles. Even though Elijah’s name is never mentioned, the insightful reader may recognize the allusions to 1–2 Kings, and the miracles performed by the old Tishbite. Elijah was a well-known figure in early Christian literature – enough so that the authors of the Gospel of Mark, the Epistle of James, and the Life of Antony could trust their readers to recognize veiled allusions to the prophet even without the aid of his name. This paper argues that the Elijah cycle also functions as a subtext in the early Christian stories of Andrew and the cannibals (Acts Andr. Mth.) and Peter’s confrontation with the magician Simon (Acts Pet.), suggesting to the insightful reader that these two apostles are as powerful wonderworkers as the prophet Elijah.
30.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Flesh-Eaters, Cave-Dwellers, and Eagles : Paradoxography in Acts Phil. 3 2022 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract While it is well known that the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles have similarities to ancient novels, it is less well understood how these imaginative stories make use of strange and unusual phenomena from around the world to characterize their heroes, provide intriguing predicaments, and add flair to their narratives. This paper analyzes the use of such paradoxographical material in the third Act of Philip (in the manuscript Codex Xenophōntos 32) where the apostle Thomas is said to have faced the violent flesh-eaters (τοὺς παλαμναίους τοὺς σαρκοφάγους), Matthew is said to have confronted the unmerciful cave-dwellers (τοὺς τρωγλοδύτας καὶ ἀνηλεεῖς), and Philip experiences a powerful theophany in the form of a talking eagle. The origins of such materials in ancient natural history and paradoxography is discussed, and the effects to which they are used in this particular story analyzed
31.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Jesus’s Puzzling Retort to the Royal Official (John 4:48) in Isodiegetic Perspective 2024 Ingår i: Novum Testamentum. - 0048-1009 .- 1568-5365. ; 66:2, s. 193-209 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract When a “royal official” (βασιλικός) urges Jesus to help his dying son, Jesus surprisingly retorts (John 4:48): “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!” Researchers find this outburst out of place in response to a desperate father, but this article argues that it can be explained by use of an isodiegetic perspective, where the Johannine storyworld is informed by a larger narrative tradition in which the tetrarch Herod Antipas (ca. 4 BCE–39 CE) is a known adversary of Jesus, whose adherents strive to entrap him and get him killed. In view of the official’s expected patronal loyalty to “king” (βασιλεύς) Herod, his healing request can reasonably be presumed to be a trap until his appeal “Sir, come down before my child dies!” (John 4:49) clarifies that the man is not acting as a client, but as a father.
32.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Liturgies as Plot Devices in Apocryphal Acts 2021 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract This paper takes a novel approach to the liturgical material in the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew, John, Paul, Peter, and Thomas, by considering how the liturgical practices of anointing, baptism, Eucharist, and singing of psalms contribute to the plots of the narratives in which they are found. By this analysis, various combinations of anointing, baptism, and Eucharist are found to be used to confirm a character’s conversion to a Christian faith, the Eucharist is used to strengthen the sense of community within a group of Christians, and both the Eucharist and singing of psalms are used to give a character encouragement in a dangerous situation. Thereby, the narratives depict conversion, community, and courage as reasons to participate in Christian liturgical practices.
33.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Liturgies as Plot Devices in Apocryphal Acts 2022 Ingår i: Why We Sing. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004522039 - 9789004522053 ; , s. 201-224 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract This paper takes a novel approach to the liturgical material in the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew, John, Paul, Peter, and Thomas, by considering how the liturgical practices of anointing, baptism, Eucharist, and singing of psalms contribute to the plots of the narratives in which they are found. By this analysis, various combinations of anointing, baptism, and Eucharist are found to be used to confirm a character’s conversion to a Christian faith, the Eucharist is used to strengthen the sense of community within a group of Christians, and both the Eucharist and singing of psalms are used to give a character encouragement in a dangerous situation. Thereby, the narratives depict conversion, community, and courage as reasons to participate in Christian liturgical practices.
34.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Mimetic Mediators : How the Markan Disciples Facilitate Emulating Jesus 2023 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract Can the Markan disciples still be viewed as role models for the Gospel audience if secondary characters in Graeco-Roman biographies are only included for what they contribute to the portrait of the protagonist? This paper argues that ancient biographers used followers of their central characters also to provide multiple mimetic patters that clarify, broaden, and mitigate what it means to imitate their heroes. Mark’s cast of secondary characters offers three alternative patterns of behaviour for potential followers of Jesus: apostles, who emulate his itinerant lifestyle of preaching, healing, and exorcism; hosts, who provide apostles with food and shelter in their homes; and supporters, who serve the movement in other ways in accordance with their various abilities.
35.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Mimetic Mediators in Mark : How Graeco-Roman Biographies Use Secondary Characters to Offer Multiple Patterns of Imitation 2024 Ingår i: Journal for the Study of the New Testament. - 0142-064X .- 1745-5294. ; 46:4, s. 464-488 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Can the Markan disciples still be viewed as potential role models for the Gospel audience if Mark’s writing is identified as a biography? This long-standing line of narrative interpretation has recently been rejected as anachronistic by Helen K. Bond, who maintains that in Graeco-Roman biographies, secondary characters are only included for what they bring to the portrait of the protagonist. In response, this paper demonstrates that ancient biographies regularly use followers of their main characters to provide multiple mimetic patterns that clarify, broaden, and mitigate what it means to imitate their heroes. In particular, Mark’s cast of secondary characters offers three alternative patterns of behaviour for potential followers of Jesus: apostles, who emulate his itinerant lifestyle of preaching, healing, and exorcism; hosts, who provide apostles with food and shelter in their homes; and supporters, who serve the movement in other ways in accordance with their abilities and social status.
36.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Miracles, Determination, and Loyalty : The Concept of Conversion in the Acts of John 2021 Ingår i: Celebrating Arthur Darby Nock. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck. - 9783161610004 - 9783161610011 ; , s. 213-234 Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract Since the 1933 publication of Arthur D. Nock’s Conversion, numerous scholars have proposed a number of ameliorations to Nock’s model of ancient conversion, the better to accommodate certain aspects of the ancient world. Such models need to be calibrated against how conversions are depicted in ancient narratives, in order to help us understand not only actual historical transitions from one religious or philosophical tradition to another, but also how ancient authors thought about such transitions. To that means, this paper uses three theoretical insights – present in the scholarships of Nock, Zeba A. Crook, and Ramsay MacMullen – to demonstrate that the implied author of the conversion narratives in the apocryphal Acts of John (19–57; 63–86) conceptualizes conversion to early Christianity as a deliberate decision, stimulated by miracles or miracle stories, and expressed in terms of loyalty to a divine patron.
37.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Nationssymbolerna bär vittne om vilka vi varit 2022 Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. - 1101-2412 .- 2001-3868. ; :6 juni, s. 20- Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract Den svenska flaggan och skölden med tre kronor vittnar om de bruk som makten tidigare haft för kristendomen som nationell ideologi. Här löper två traditioner parallellt, varav en är värd att värna om medan den andra har en destruktiv kärna.
38.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Origen’s References to Heracleon : A Quotation-Analytical Study of the Earliest Known Commentary on the Gospel of John 2020 Bok (refereegranskat)abstract In this monograph, Carl Johan Berglund reassesses Origen's references to the second-century philologist Heracleon, without presuming that Heracleon's exegesis is determined by views described in heresiological sources or that every reference is equivalent to a verbatim quotation. The author uses variations in Origen's attribution formulas to categorize almost two hundred references as either verbatim quotations, summaries, explanatory paraphrases, or mere assertions. Heracleon's views are assessed by considering the over fifty quotations and seventy summaries so identified in a context of literature to which Heracleon refers – John, a gospel similar to Matthew's, a collection of Pauline epistles, and the Preaching of Peter. The author concludes that Origen is likely to have inferred views he knew from his exegetical opponents (the heterodox and "those who bring in the natures") that were never expressed by Heracleon.
39.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Paul’s Rhetorical Efforts to Establish Good Will in First Thessalonians 2022 Ingår i: Journal for the Study of the New Testament. - : SAGE Publications. - 0142-064X .- 1745-5294. ; 44:4, s. 539-560 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Ancient oratory ordinarily begins with an effort of captatio benevolentiae – the rhetorical strategy of praising and lauding the audience to make them well-disposed toward the speaker, attentive and receptive to your message – especially before controversial claims or challenging demands. In First Thessalonians, such efforts are manifest not only in the introduction in ch. 1, but throughout the narration in chs. 2–3, which implies that the senders are preparing for a particularly sensitive topic. The first exhortation to appear after these efforts cease, the exhortation to sexual holiness in 1 Thess. 4.3-8, must therefore represent the primary purpose of the letter. The euphemistic language used in this request makes it difficult to understand what kind of πορνεία (‘sexual immorality’) Paul, Silvanus and Timothy are arguing against, but the most likely interpretation is that they want the Thessalonian Christians to stop using their slaves and former slaves for sexual purposes.
40.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Perpetua's Dignity on the Arena of Carthage 2023 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract Rarely are competing ideologies as sharply contrasted as in early Christian martyr stories, where the heroes are executed for rejecting what in Roman society is regarded as fundamental norms. A prominent example is the second-century Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity, which claims to document a young Christian woman’s own experiences, emotions, and mystical visions while awaiting her death among the beasts on the Carthaginian arena. This study makes use of Kathryn Tanner’s theory of cultures as overlapping sets of behavioral patterns, continuously renegotiated by consensus efforts within a social group, to discern the norms and ideals of the implied author of the Martyrdom, and compares those to well-established patterns within the larger Greco-Roman culture. It concludes that the contrast is considerably less sharp than depicted: while Perpetua’s refusal to sacrifice to the Roman gods and her insistence on human dignity even for prisoners awaiting execution are in conflict with Roman society, her visionary ability and calm bravery in face of death are patterns well in tune with Greco-Roman ideals, and serve to elevate Perpetua’s status in the eyes of her tormentors.
41.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Peter’s Thaumaturgic Development from Observer to Performer 2023 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract Although it is likely that the character of Simon Peter we encounter in the Gospel of Mark is based on the memory of a historical person, the character undergoes considerable innovation in later narratives such as the Gospel of Matthew, the canonical Acts of the Apostles, and the apocryphal Acts of Peter. While the Markan Peter witnesses Jesus performing a multitude of miracles without being named as the performer of a single one, later stories has him walking on water (Matt 14:22–33), healing paralytics (Acts 3:1–10, 9:32–35), making a dog speak (Acts Paul 9.9–15), miraculously repairing a shattered marble statue (Acts Pet. 11.8–23), and even raising several people from the dead (Acts 9:36–42; Acts Pet. 27.1–11, 28.63–66). This paper analyses how the miracles ascribed to Peter contribute to the narrative plot in view, develop the characterization of Peter, and respond to the putative needs of the author.
42.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Presumptions about Voluntary Poverty in the Acts of Paul and Thecla 2024 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract In the extracanonical story about Paul and Thecla in Iconium, Paul’s host Onesiphorus (cf. 2 Tim 1:16; 4:19) is so radical in abandoning the concerns of this world that he camps out in a tomb without the means to feed his hungry children (Acts Paul 3.23–25). Where did he learn such a radical notion of voluntary poverty, and what is the reader supposed to make of it when nothing else in the story teaches the same ideal? This paper uses Kathryn Tanner’s theory of culture to argue that the Acts of Paul presents the abandonment of all personal earthly possessions as a subcultural ideal so established in early Christian culture that it can be taken for granted rather than argued for.
43.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Recension av Ezra JaeKyung Cho, The Rhetorical Approach to 1 Thessalonians: In Light of Ancient Funeral Oration (Eugene: Pickwick, 2020) 2022 Ingår i: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok. - 1100-2298 .- 2001-9424. ; 87, s. 352-356 Recension (refereegranskat)
44.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Recension av Helen K. Bond, The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020) 2022 Ingår i: Patristica Nordica Annuaria. - 2001-2365. ; 37, s. 99-102 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
45.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Recension av Jeffrey M. Tripp, Direct Internal Quotation in the Gospel of John, WUNT II 493 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019) 2022 Ingår i: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok. - 1100-2298 .- 2001-9424. ; 87, s. 416-419 Recension (refereegranskat)
46.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Recension av Review of David Satran, In the Image of Origen: Eros, Virtue, and Constraint in the Early Christian Academy, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 58 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018) 2021 Ingår i: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok. - 1100-2298 .- 2001-9424. ; , s. 204-207 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
47.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) References to Heracleon in Clement of Alexandria 2021 Ingår i: Early Christianity (EC). - : Mohr Siebeck. - 1868-7032 .- 1868-8020. ; 12:2, s. 228-247 Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract Der älteste bekannte Kommentar zum Johannesevangelium, die ὑπομνήματα des vermeintlichen Valentinianers Herakleon, begegnet fast ausschließlich in Bezügen bei Clemens von Alexandrien (ca. 150–215 n. Chr.) und Origenes (ca. 185–254 n. Chr.). In einer kürzlich erschienenen Monographie stelle ich die geläufige Annahme in Frage, dass Origenes mit seiner Vielzahl an Bezügen Herakleon überwiegend wörtlich zitiert habe, und unterscheide methodisch nach wörtlichen Zitaten, Zusammenfassungen, erklärenden Paraphrasen und bloßen Behauptungen. Im vorliegenden Artikel wird diese Methode auf die Zitierweise des Clemens und die beiden Passagen angewendet, in denen er auf Herakleon zu sprechen kommt. Bei der Analyse lässt sich ein wörtliches Zitat, eine Zusammenfassung, zwei erklärende Paraphrasen und eine bloße Behauptung identifizieren und feststellen, dass Herakleon keinen klar erkennbaren Gebrauch vom Lukasevangelium macht.
48.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Reimagining Gospel Stories with Apostolic Protagonists : The Apostle Philip vs. the People of Nikatera 2024 Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
49.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Review of Alexander Kocar, Heavenly Stories: Tiered Salvation in the New Testament and Ancient Christianity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) 2023 Ingår i: Journal of early Christian studies (Print). - : Project Muse. - 1067-6341 .- 1086-3184. ; :1, s. 109-110 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
50.	Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973- (författare) Review of Matthew D. C. Larsen, Gospels Before the Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) 2020 Ingår i: Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok. - 1100-2298 .- 2001-9424. ; 85:1, s. 259-262 Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)

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