Canon and canonicity : the formation and use of scripture / / edited by Einar Thomassen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797284503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Copenhagen, Denmark : , : Museum Tusculanum Press, , 2009; ©2009
• ISBN: 87-635-3430-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 220.12
• Soggetti: Canon (Literature) - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front cover""; ""Title page ""; ""Colophone ""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Einar Thomassen: Some Notes on the Development of Christian Ideas about a Canon""; ""The concept of 'canon'""; ""The canonical process in ancient Christianity: the proto-canonical phase""; ""The canonization phase""; ""Canon as tradition""; ""Canon as revealed text""; ""Conclusions""; ""Dimitris J. Kyrtatas: Historical Aspects of the Formation of the New Testament Canon""; ""George Aichele: Canon, Ideology, and the Emergence of an Imperial Church""; ""1. The concept of canon""; ""2. Canon and technology""; ""3. Canon and ideology""""4. From canon to classic""; ""Hugo Lundhaug: Canon and Interpretation: A Cognitive Perspective""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Canon and intertextuality""; ""3. A cognitive approach""; ""4. Canon and idealized cognitive models""; ""5. Further control of Biblical interpretation: creeds and rules of faith""; ""6. Canon and interpretive communities""; ""7. Summary and conclusion""; ""Ingvild Sælid Gilhus: Contextualizing the Present, Manipulating the Past: Codex II from Nag Hammadi and the Challenge of Circumventing Canonicity""; ""Introduction""; ""Theoretical framework""""The composition of codex II""; ""Contextualizing the present""; ""The hypothesis of Michael Williams""; ""Jesus and the biblical demiurge""; ""Ascetic context""; ""Manipulating the past""; ""Circumventing canonicity?""; ""Implications""; ""Tomas Hägg: Canon Formation in Greek Literary Culture""; ""Polymnia ; Athanassiadi: Canonizing Platonism: The Fetters of Iamblichus""; ""Iamblichus of Chalcis (ca. 245-ca. 325)""; ""Plato the theologian""; ""The gods and the theologians: the Chaldaean Oracles and the Orphic Hymns""; ""Tarald Rasmussen: The Biblical Canon of the Lutheran Reformation""""The Word of God and philology""; ""The Word of God and church authority""; ""The Word of God and the biblical canon""; ""Subjectivity and the simple meaning of the text""; ""A new intertextuality""; ""Lutheran ideology and protestant reality""; ""The Protestant canon between 'sacred text' and 'cultural text'""; ""Lisbeth Mikaelsson: Verification of the Word of God in Missionary Autobiography""; ""Introduction""; ""The autobiographical witness""; ""The Word of God""; ""Norwegian mission""; ""The mission myth""; ""A box myth and biblical mimesis""""Divine communication with individuals""; ""Conclusion""; ""Karstein Hopland: 'Word of God' as World Construction: The Religious and Philosophical Fundamentalism of Ole Hallesby, Norway 1910-1950""; ""Jostein Børtnes: Canon Formation and Canon Interpretation""; ""Symphonic and diaphonic discourse""; ""The formation of the Christian canon""; ""Canon as a secondary modelling system""; ""Canon closure and canon interpretation""; ""Biblical meaning construction""; ""In God's image and likeness: the construction of a Christian anthropology""; ""Interpretations of godlikeness in patristic anthropology""