NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 67, Issue 2, 2013

This article reflects the outcome of a research project on the content and specific features of contemporary Protestant sermons in the Netherlands. The presupposition is that Protestant sermons have to deal in some way with all aspects of daily life in their relevance before God. A qualitative analysis of 20 sermons from a wide range of spiritual denominations within the Protestant Church in the Netherlands shows fi Read More

Discussions concerning the trinitarian renaissance often focus on the social doctrine of the trinity. However, this renaissance was originally also of hermeneutical significance, as demonstrated in the work of Ingolf U. Dalferth. In the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God’s Spirit discloses God’s presence to us and affords us new orientation in this light. The main problem of Dalferth’s contribution is the lack of hypostatical Read More

This article unravels a hitherto unstudied chapter in the relationship between science and religion in the Islamic tradition. The main focus here is the discourse of the 13th-century Muslim jurist al-Qarāfī on the development of embryos during pregnancy; the opinions of four other jurists are also outlined. These juristic discussions show that religious rulings relevant to embryology were drafted not only with the help of relevant Read More

This contribution explores the topos of the Pilgrim and the Tourist, and examines how it has developed, how, and in which contexts, it was used and appropriated. For this purpose a compact fourfold typology of the topos is offered. In the first three, we see a clear movement from divergence toward convergence. In the last type we are beyond the topos. The Pilgrim and the Tourist are no longer poles of a coherent scale or tax Read More

This article discusses Kurt Koch’s book on the church as a crucial text for contempora-ry theology. Koch adopts a ‘hermeneutics of reform’ and emphasizes that the image of the church as the people of God should not be employed in isolation from the image of the church as the mystical body of Christ. He proposes that we return to the early Christian order in the sacraments of initiation: baptism, confirmation, eucharist. Read More

This article reviews Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. Oxford Theological Monographs, , : , , 304pp., € 96,18.