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Ad fontes : Festskrift till Olof Andrén på 100-årsdagen
- 2015
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Denna bok är en festskrift till prästen, teologen och översättaren Olof Andrén. Bokens titel, Ad fontes, betyder »till källorna« och är vald som ett erkännande av Olof Andréns mångåriga gärning för att uppmärksamma och tillgängliggöra den rikedom som nns bevarad i skrift från kristendomens äldsta tradition. Hans gärning har sedan länge en stor betydelse för kyrka, akademi och kulturliv i Sverige. Boken inleds med tre bidrag som tecknar Olof Andréns gärning och patristikens uppsving i Sverige under 1900-talet. Därefter följer sjutton artiklar som lyfter fram nya perspektiv på fornkyrkliga text- er och personer, tidigkristen ikonogra och kyrkomusik, samt på hur arvet från denna tradition kommit att uppfattas och återspeglas i senare tid.
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- Appelfeldt, Joel, 1983-
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Dopet som hantverk : Gudstjänstkreativitet och liturgisk taktik i Svenska kyrkan och Equmeniakyrkan.
- 2023
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)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.
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Arctic Justice : Environment, Society and Governance
- 2023
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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A Venture into Dark Mariology
- 2023
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-, et al.
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Byzantine Tree Life : Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination
- 2021
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Book (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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Landscape Theology : Exploring the Outfields of the Telemarkian Dream Song
- 2020
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In: Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language. - 1448-0778. ; 10:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Livnende stoff, elementers lengsel : En nymaterialistisk inngang til Elias Blix’ dåpssalme (145)
- 2021
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In: SANG. - 2597-0518. ; :1-2, s. 57-67
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Romanos Meloden: "Julhymn 2"
- 2021
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In: Mariologi. - Skellefteå : Artos & Norma bokförlag. - 9789177771838 ; , s. 177-188
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Book chapter (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-, et al.
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Rubenson on the Move : A Biographical Journey
- 2020
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In: Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004430693 - 9789004430747 ; , s. 247-250
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Sex and the City : Intercourse in Holy Week
- 2020
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In: Journal of early Christian studies (Print). - : Project Muse. - 1067-6341 .- 1086-3184. ; 28:1, s. 115-147
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, et al.
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Sexuality and Orthodoxy : An Introduction
- 2022
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In: Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality. - New York : Fordham University Press. - 9780823299690 - 9780823299676 - 9780823299683 ; , s. 1-20
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Arentzen, Thomas, et al.
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Some Early Christian Trees
- 2021
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In: 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
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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Songs about Women : [by] Romanos the Melodist
- 2024
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Book (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas
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The Chora of God : Approaching the Outskirts of Mariology in the Akathistos
- 2021
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In: Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. - : Project Muse. - 2574-4968 .- 2574-495X. ; 4:2, s. 127-149
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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The Dialogue of Annunciation : Germanos of Constantinople versus Romanos the Melode
- 2019
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In: The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 9781108696791 ; , s. 151-169
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The story of the Annunciation (Lk 1:26–38) inspired a flourishing tradition of homiletic and hymnographic literature in early Christianity. A recurring feature of this strand was the portrayal of characters through dialogue.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-, et al.
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Wisdom on the Move : An Introduction
- 2020
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In: Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation. - Leiden : Brill Nijhoff. - 0920-623X. - 9789004430693 - 9789004430747 ; , s. 1-10
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Asserhed, Björn, 1973-
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Gardens in the Wasteland : Christian Formation in Three Swedish Church Plants
- 2024
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Apocryphal Acts among Greek Biographies and Paradoxographies : A Question of Genre
- 2022
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Att möta vilddjuren i egna kläder : Kultur, status och värdighet på arenan i Karthago
- 2023
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In: Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift. - 0039-6761. ; 99:3, s. 215-228
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Between Biography and Paradoxography : Unveiling the Genre of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
- 2021
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Between Biography and Paradoxography : Unveiling the Genre of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
- 2022
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, 1973-
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Bibelns samlevnadsideal
- 2007
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In: Frisinnad tidskrift. - 0345-3723.
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Den utblottade är den mäktige
- 2017
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In: Sändaren. - 1103-6206. ; :4
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Discipleship Ideals from Mark to the Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin
- 2021
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Discipleship Ideals in the Acts of Philip
- 2021
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In: The Apostles Peter, Paul, John, Thomas and Philip with their Companions in Late Antiquity. - Leuven : Peeters Publishers. - 9789042945531 - 9789042945548 ; , s. 314-332
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Elijah as an Archetype for the Apostles according to the Apocryphal Acts
- 2022
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Ett samspelt lag spelar bäst
- 2004
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In: Sändaren. - 1103-6206. ; :18, s. 29-
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, 1973-
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Evaluating Quotations in Ancient Greek Literature : The Case of Heracleon’s hypomnēmata
- 2017
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In: Shadowy Characters and Fragmentary Evidence. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck. - 9783161540851 ; , s. 201-231
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Scholarship on ancient works of literature that survive only in quotations, such as Heracleon’s hypomnēmata (“commentary” or “notes”), often presuppose that the quotations dependably transmit the actual words of the quoted author, thereby ignoring the mediation and the agenda of the quoting author. This article demonstrates that ancient authors frequently adapted quotations to their new contexts, and develops a methodology for evaluating the extent of adaptations made in Origen’s quotations from Heracleon’s hypomnēmata.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Flesh-Eaters, Cave-Dwellers, and Eagles : Paradoxography in Acts Phil. 3
- 2022
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, teologie doktor, 1973-
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Heracleon and the Seven Categories of Exegetical Opponents in Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John
- 2019
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In: Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 0949-9571 .- 1612-961X. ; 23:2, s. 228-251
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- While the adversaries of Origen of Alexandria traditionally have been described in general terms as either literalists or Gnostics, Peter Martens has recently argued convincingly that Origen repeatedly refers to more specific categories of literalist opponents, whom he criticizes for particular literal interpretations. This paper argues that a similar specificity applies to his supposedly Gnostic opponents. In his Commentary on the Gospel of John, Origen regularly uses designations such as "the heterodox" or "those who bring in the natures" to identify specific categories of exegetical opponents, which he defines by their particular interpretative practices or their adherence to particular teachings. When he responds to various scriptural interpretations, Origen takes care to specify which of at least seven identifiable categories of exegetical opponents he currently opposes. Throughout the commentary, Origen maintains the distinctions between these categories and Heracleon, the individual interpreter he names most frequently, and he never uses Heracleon's words as an example of an interpretation by any of the identifiable categories.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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How ’Valentinian’ Was Heracleon’s Reading of the Healing of the Son of a Royal Official?
- 2019
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In: <em>Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity</em>. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck. - 9783161589379 - 9783161589362 ; , s. 219-239
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The interpretation of a Johannine healing story by the second-century Christian teacher Heracleon has in previous scholarship been presumed to be determined by “Valentinian” sectarian doctrines; Heracleon has been said to identify the royal official in the story with the Maker (δημιουργός), an inferior divinity who has created the material world, and his son as one of three categories of human beings whose eternal fate are determined by their spiritual, animated, or material inherent nature. This paper attempts a novel reading of Heracleon’s interpretation, presuming neither that Heracleon subscribes to the ideas associated to “Valentinian” teachers by heresiological authors, nor that Origen of Alexandria always refers to Heracleon’s comments using verbatim quotations. The paper argues that the identification of the royal official with the Maker is inferred by Origen based on heresiological presumptions, and that Heracleon used Synoptic and Pauline parallels to read the story as a metaphor of humanity’s perilous state as afflicted with the disease of sin, and in dire need of salvation.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, 1973-
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Interpreting Readers : The Role of Greco-Roman Education in Early Interpretation of New Testament Writings
- 2018
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In: Scriptural Interpretation at the Interface between Education and Religion. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004385344 - 9789004385696 ; , s. 204-247
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, the organization and content of Greco-Roman education are described, the social interaction within ancient high literary culture is depicted, and a selection of the techniques and principles that guided Greek and Latin literary critics are presented. Evidence for early Christian participation in these cultural expressions are discussed, as well as factors behind second-century adoption of literary criticism for interpreting New Testament writings.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Jesus’s Puzzling Retort to the Royal Official (John 4:48) in Isodiegetic Perspective
- 2024
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In: Novum Testamentum. - 0048-1009 .- 1568-5365. ; 66:2, s. 193-209
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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.
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