Canon and canonicity : the formation and use of scripture / edited by Einar Thomassen.
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Museum Tusculanum Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Perspective1. 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 demiurgeAscetic 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 intertextualityLutheran 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 discourseThe 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; Godlikeness in the medieval western tradition; Karl Barth and the heterosexualization of godlikeness; Heterosexualization of godlikeness in the Catholic Church; Contributors; Bibliography.