NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 72, Issue 4, 2018

Abstract In his collection Oostersch: Verzen naar Perzische en Arabische dichters (‘Oriental: Verses after Persian and Arabic poets’), published in 1924, the Dutch poet J.H Leopold (1865-1925) included his poem ‘Jezus, die door de wereld ging’ (‘Jesus, who went through the world’). It ends with an agraphon, or saying, ascribed to Jesus but not recorded in any of the biblical gospels. The standard edition notes that the poem can b Read More

Abstract The ideal of self-loss from monastic tradition seems to contradict the continuing bond of contemporary individuals with their beloved ones after death. This leads to the question how prospective hope on a hereafter and retrospective remembrance of the life of the deceased can be combined and open a perspective on eternity. Furthermore, one can ask how a form of spirituality that is directed to self-loss already du Read More

Abstract Adolf Harnack’s Das Wesen des Christentums (1900) sold more than 100.000 copies. The first English edition What is Christianity? appeared already in 1902. In the preface, the church historian and liberal theologian Harnack (1851-1930) characterized the book as a ‘short and plain statement of the Gospel and its history’. The present article explores Harnack’s career, the defining historical approach (historicis Read More