NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 38, Issue 1, 1984

Abstract The Christian attitude towards the sources of Judaism has always been one of self-interest. In our century the ideals of critical scholarship and the diminishing role of Christianity have changed this to some extent. Modern interest mainly comes from New Testament scholars, but the question of the relation between the Church and the Jews is also a living issue, in which, however, the Hebrew sources are neglected. Ch Read More

Abstract Lutheran Orthodoxy had created and sustained an image of Luther as a hero and a man of God, whose word could not be disputed. It is remarkable that to the adherents of the ideas of the Enlightenment in the 18th century the Reformer was the principal originator of modern scientific, spiritual and political emancipation from popish oppression. Luther’s theology was not explored; on the contrary, the Augustini Read More

Abstract The article investigates the factors which led to the Réveil in Geneva and finally to the separation from the State Church in the autumn of 1817. Leading figures were students in theology who, from circa 1810, found an alternative to the prevailing spirit of Rationalism in Moravian-type gatherings, in Freemasonry and in circles influenced by the pietistic minister Moulinié. They rejected the type of Revivalism which was re Read More

Abstract Modern systematic theology, as it is taught in state-universities on the Continent and elsewhere, is worried by two closely interrelated philosophical questions: Is it possible for theology to be scientific in some minimal sense of the word?, and: Does theology rightly occupy a place within our universities? In the present article, written on the occasion of the inaugural lectures of Prof. Adriaanse and Prof. Van de Beek Read More