NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 44, Issue 4, 1990

Abstract When the edition of the New Testament of Westcott and Hort was published in 1881, together with the Revised Version, people were faced with the problem of the short text of the Lord’s Prayer in Luke 11:2-4. The great defender of the ‘old text’ was Dean Burgon of Chicester. He claimed that the revisioners followed here the corrupted text of Marcion instead of Jesus’ own words. He did not present his readers wit Read More

Abstract François E. Daubanton (1953-1920) was Professor of Biblical Theology, Practical Theology and the History of Missions at the University of Utrecht. In his well known book Prolegomena van de protestantsche zendingswetenschap (= Prolegomena to the protestant science of missions), 1911, he contributed profoundly to the history of mission studies. This article does not offer a description and analysis of Daubanton’s co Read More

Abstract In a brief introductory section difficulties concerning the name of the discipline are stated and the delimitation of the period of review is accounted for. The second section develops the contrast between the analytical and the speculative methods as the two main approaches in the field of the philosophy of religion. This section ends by considering the possibility that a rapprochement is taking place between these tw Read More