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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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Ingår i: Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language. - 1448-0778. ; 10:1
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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.
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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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Ingår i: SANG. - 2597-0518. ; :1-2, s. 57-67
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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.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Sex and the City : Intercourse in Holy Week
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of early Christian studies (Print). - : Project Muse. - 1067-6341 .- 1086-3184. ; 28:1, s. 115-147
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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.
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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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Ingår i: Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. - : Project Muse. - 2574-4968 .- 2574-495X. ; 4:2, s. 127-149
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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.
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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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Ingår i: Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift. - 0039-6761. ; 99:3, s. 215-228
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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.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, 1973-
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Bibelns samlevnadsideal
- 2007
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Ingår i: Frisinnad tidskrift. - 0345-3723.
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- Berglund, Carl Johan, Teologie doktor, 1973-
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Den utblottade är den mäktige
- 2017
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Ingår i: Sändaren. - 1103-6206. ; :4
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