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Biblical Exegesis without Authorial Intention?
In Biblical Exegesis without Authorial Intention? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Authorship and Meaning, Clarissa Breu offers interdisciplinary contributions to the question of the author in biblical interpretation with a focus on “death of the author” theory. The wide range of approaches represented in the volume comprises mostly postmodern theory (e. g. Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Paul de Man, Julia Kristeva and Gilles Deleuze), but also the implied author and intentio operis. Furthermore, psychology, choreography, reader-response theories and anthropological studies are reflected. Inasmuch as the contributions demonstrate that biblical studies could utilize significantly more differentiated views on the author than are predominantly presumed within the discipline, it is an invitation to question the importance and place attributed to the author.
Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research
Narrative Research, once the domain of structuralist literary theory, has over the last 15 years developed into an international and interdisciplinary field. It is now commonly agreed that storytelling functions as a fundamental cognitive tool for sense-making and meaning production, and that human beings structure and communicate lived experience through oral, written and visual stories. Entitled Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research, this volume collects fifteen essays which look at narrative and narrativity from various perspectives, including literary studies and hermeneutics, cognitive theory and creativity research, metaphor studies, film theory and intermedia...
Being in Religion
Asle Eikrem strives to develop a systematic philosophical understanding of the constitutive structures of religious discourses. Different philosophical traditions (phenomenology, hermeneutics, pragmatics, metaphysics or analytical philosophical thinking) have articulated these structures in their own distinctive ways. The author aims to show how insights from partly conflicting traditions can be coherently reconstructed within the framework of a comprehensive philosophical presentation. The central thesis guiding his work is inspired by the deep-metaphysics of German philosopher Lorenz B. Puntel, and states that the relation between the pragmatic, semantic and ontological structures of religious discourses must be understood as internally necessary. They cannot be thought independently from each other. The pragmatic and semantic structures of religious discourses must be understood as substructures in a comprehensive ontological dimension (Being) that is characterized as practicable and expressible.
Haunted Narratives
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term: biographies and autobiographies that deal with trau...
Die Bedeutung von Gläubigen für die Theologie
Die Bedeutung des Glaubenssinns der Gläubigen für die Theologie wird zurzeit kontrovers diskutiert. Dabei überschneiden sich unterschiedliche Diskurse. Es geht zum einen um das Verhältnis einer nach formalen Regeln arbeitenden Theologie zu den oft assoziativ und narrativ angelegten Glaubenseinsichten von Gläubigen. Zum anderen wird verhandelt, welche Kompetenzen Laien zugesprochen werden und mit welchen Konzepten sich das Nachdenken einfacher Glaubender über Gott und die Welt angemessen erfassen lässt. Diesen Fragen geht der vorliegende Band aus systematisch-theologischer und praktisch-theologischer Perspektive nach. Sein Ziel ist es, im Gespräch beider theologischer Disziplinen die Bedeutung der Einsichten theologisch formal nicht gebildeter Glaubender zu würdigen und Räume auszuloten, in welchen sie theologische Bedeutung gewinnen können.
Verstehen Sie Glauben?
Verstehen Sie die Predigt am Sonntagmorgen? Verstehen Sie, was bei einer Beerdigung gebetet wird? Verstehen Sie Glauben? Der Schriftsteller Lukas Bärfuss, die Satirikerin Patti Basler, der Autor und Theologe Christian Lehnert, die Religionspädagogin Jacqueline Keune und andere mehr machen die Probe aufs Exempel. Wenn die Schriftstellerin die Konfirmationspredigt hört und der Kommunikationsverantwortliche die Andacht kommentiert, dann rücken Barrieren kirchlicher Sprache in den Blick. Die Beiträge geben vielfältige Impulse und zeigen auf, wie Christinnen und Christen sprechen können, damit Glaube verständlich wird und das Zuhören Spass macht!
The Father of Jewish Mysticism
The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem's thought. Scholem, a historian ofthe Kabbalah and sharp critic of Jewish assimilation, played a major role in the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism. Through his work on the Kabbalah, Scholem turned the closed world of mystical texts into a force for Jewish identity. Skillfully drawing on Scholem's early diaries and writings, The Father of Jewish Mysticism introduces a young, soon-to-be legendary intellectual in search of himself and Judaism.
Narrative Factuality
The study of narrative—the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology—has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literature, such as novels or short stories. But narrative is a transdisciplinary and transmedial concept whose manifestations encompass both the fictional and the factual. In this volume, which provides a companion piece to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe’s Fiktionalität: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, the use of narrative to convey true and reliable information is systematically explored across media, cultures and disciplines, as well as in its narratological, stylistic, philosophical, and rhetorical dimensions. At a time when the notion of truth has come under attack, it is imperative to reaffirm the commitment to facts of certain types of narrative, and to examine critically the foundations of this commitment. But because it takes a background for a figure to emerge clearly, this book will also explore nonfactual types of narratives, thereby providing insights into the nature of narrative fiction that could not be reached from the narrowly literary perspective of early narratology.
Love's Transcendence and the Problem of Theodicy
"Claudia Weltz explores responses to the problem of evil that do not end up in a theodicy. Kierkegaard's and Rosenzweig's reasons for having no reason to defend God and their ethics of love are discussed in the context of German idealism and French phenomenology."--BOOK JACKET.
