Abstract:This article is a response to three others written in this journal on the topic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's interpretation of the Psalms. The basic questions pursued here are, What is the origin of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christological interpretation of the Psalms and does it have a defensible place for Psalms study and use today? The article interacts with the comments and proposals from each author, presenting context from Bonhoeffer's life for the authors' analysis and conclusions. The aim is not to defend Bonhoeffer's interpretation of the Psalms as much as to shed light on the development and shape of his interpretation, which is demonstrated in the writing of Prayerbook of the Bible in 1940. Through this analysis, this article aims to promote greater understanding of Bonhoeffer's exegetical and theological development in order to grasp his own aims more clearly in an attempt to appropriate his interpretive insights and conclusions for today.
{"title":"Bonhoeffer's Christological Interpretation of the Psalms: A Response","authors":"Brad A. Pribbenow","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0045","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is a response to three others written in this journal on the topic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's interpretation of the Psalms. The basic questions pursued here are, What is the origin of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christological interpretation of the Psalms and does it have a defensible place for Psalms study and use today? The article interacts with the comments and proposals from each author, presenting context from Bonhoeffer's life for the authors' analysis and conclusions. The aim is not to defend Bonhoeffer's interpretation of the Psalms as much as to shed light on the development and shape of his interpretation, which is demonstrated in the writing of Prayerbook of the Bible in 1940. Through this analysis, this article aims to promote greater understanding of Bonhoeffer's exegetical and theological development in order to grasp his own aims more clearly in an attempt to appropriate his interpretive insights and conclusions for today.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46869927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:We investigate the correlation of Sergius Bulgakov's views on the inescapable tragedy of philosophy with contradictions rooted in Bulgakov's philosophy itself. Based on comparative analyses of Bulgakov's views on the evolution of philosophy and peculiarities of Bulgakov's philosophizing, we conclude that the meaning created by his mental image of "the tragedy of philosophy" is much broader and more versatile than he himself intended. The tragedy of philosophical thinking is expressed in contradictions that arise between system-creating aspirations for philosophy and the need for the free movement of thought; between the passionate desire to affirm human individuality and the desire to substantiate the absolute basis of Being; between the will to live and the search for the meaning of life; between the philosophical search for truth and religious dogma; between the claims of reason and the ocean of the overmind or macrocosmic; and finally, the awareness of the acuteness of these contradictions and of the impossibility of going beyond their tragic circle. We conclude that Bulgakov's philosophical quest is the ultimate expression of the tragedy of philosophy. This is inevitable: immersion in the mythic is a natural result of the evolution of philosophy, striving for the Absolute.
{"title":"Between Philosophical Theory and Religious Dogma: Philosophical Views of Father Sergius Bulgakov","authors":"N. Gonotskaya, G. Kirilenko","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:We investigate the correlation of Sergius Bulgakov's views on the inescapable tragedy of philosophy with contradictions rooted in Bulgakov's philosophy itself. Based on comparative analyses of Bulgakov's views on the evolution of philosophy and peculiarities of Bulgakov's philosophizing, we conclude that the meaning created by his mental image of \"the tragedy of philosophy\" is much broader and more versatile than he himself intended. The tragedy of philosophical thinking is expressed in contradictions that arise between system-creating aspirations for philosophy and the need for the free movement of thought; between the passionate desire to affirm human individuality and the desire to substantiate the absolute basis of Being; between the will to live and the search for the meaning of life; between the philosophical search for truth and religious dogma; between the claims of reason and the ocean of the overmind or macrocosmic; and finally, the awareness of the acuteness of these contradictions and of the impossibility of going beyond their tragic circle. We conclude that Bulgakov's philosophical quest is the ultimate expression of the tragedy of philosophy. This is inevitable: immersion in the mythic is a natural result of the evolution of philosophy, striving for the Absolute.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46036968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I seek to introduce Stanley Hauerwas’s understanding of the church as a communal agent, in order to strengthen Angella Son’s concept of the Christian as an agent of joy. After briefly demonstrating the shortcomings inherent in Son’s concept of an agent of joy, which is based on Karl Barth’s theological anthropology, I show that Son’s notion of agency lacks the sense that it is the community that bears the stories of God in Christ. Individual Christians are called through and to the church, where the distinctive character and story of God, as revealed in Christ, are embodied through the life of both church and Christians.
{"title":"From Agent to Witness: Reading Stanley Hauerwas in the Korean Context","authors":"Heeju Kim","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2020-0189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2020-0189","url":null,"abstract":"I seek to introduce Stanley Hauerwas’s understanding of the church as a communal agent, in order to strengthen Angella Son’s concept of the Christian as an agent of joy. After briefly demonstrating the shortcomings inherent in Son’s concept of an agent of joy, which is based on Karl Barth’s theological anthropology, I show that Son’s notion of agency lacks the sense that it is the community that bears the stories of God in Christ. Individual Christians are called through and to the church, where the distinctive character and story of God, as revealed in Christ, are embodied through the life of both church and Christians.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47870652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Dietrich Bonhoeffer's approach to the Book of Psalms as the hermeneutical key to all of the Bible can help to combine historical and theological readings of the Bible. This article highlights four aspects of Bonhoeffer's approach: (1) by reading the Psalms prayerfully and receptively, persons are drawn into the realm of God's revelation; (2) Christ comes to the reader of the Psalms as the one who is already present, and the reader partakes of Christ's righteousness; (3) because the Psalms are read in new contexts, Christ reshapes these contexts: life becomes open for God; (4) by definition, the Psalms are read in the community of the synagogue and the Church, since no single person has experienced all that the Psalms express. These four aspects together render reading the Psalms, and the Bible as a whole, a theological enterprise, in a hermeneutical situation defined by the living Christ. The situation of interpretation is reversed by a change of subject: God is the one reading, the interpreter is the one being interpreted.
{"title":"The Key to the Bible: Bonhoeffer's Approach to the Psalms as Theological Interpretation","authors":"A. Huijgen","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Dietrich Bonhoeffer's approach to the Book of Psalms as the hermeneutical key to all of the Bible can help to combine historical and theological readings of the Bible. This article highlights four aspects of Bonhoeffer's approach: (1) by reading the Psalms prayerfully and receptively, persons are drawn into the realm of God's revelation; (2) Christ comes to the reader of the Psalms as the one who is already present, and the reader partakes of Christ's righteousness; (3) because the Psalms are read in new contexts, Christ reshapes these contexts: life becomes open for God; (4) by definition, the Psalms are read in the community of the synagogue and the Church, since no single person has experienced all that the Psalms express. These four aspects together render reading the Psalms, and the Bible as a whole, a theological enterprise, in a hermeneutical situation defined by the living Christ. The situation of interpretation is reversed by a change of subject: God is the one reading, the interpreter is the one being interpreted.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44306426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article centres on the role of the Lutheran confession in societal development in the Nordic countries, especially Denmark. Using the concept of social imaginaries, it argues that the Lutheran Reformation refined a monarchical ideology already existent in ancient Roman stoicism that both moved society toward absolutism and emphasized the government's responsibility for social welfare. This thesis is documented by examples of royal ideology from material in the Danish national archives. The use of Denmark as a case exemplifies how confession can play a formative role for society and, at the same time, offers new material for the correct interpretation of Luther's two kingdoms doctrine as an ontology and a world view.
{"title":"God's Caring Vice-Regent: The Lutheran Transformation of the Senecan Ideal of the Benevolent Monarch as the Basis of Absolutism and Social Responsibility","authors":"B. Holm","doi":"10.3138/TJT-2021-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/TJT-2021-0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article centres on the role of the Lutheran confession in societal development in the Nordic countries, especially Denmark. Using the concept of social imaginaries, it argues that the Lutheran Reformation refined a monarchical ideology already existent in ancient Roman stoicism that both moved society toward absolutism and emphasized the government's responsibility for social welfare. This thesis is documented by examples of royal ideology from material in the Danish national archives. The use of Denmark as a case exemplifies how confession can play a formative role for society and, at the same time, offers new material for the correct interpretation of Luther's two kingdoms doctrine as an ontology and a world view.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43685775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brian S. Powers. Full Darkness: Original Sin, Moral Injury, and Wartime Violence.","authors":"Benoît Menghini","doi":"10.3138/TJT-2020-0090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/TJT-2020-0090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42247046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joni S. Sancken. Words That Heal: Preaching Hope to Wounded Souls.","authors":"Darcey Lazerte","doi":"10.3138/TJT-2020-0122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/TJT-2020-0122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46145492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Abrahim H. Khan","doi":"10.3138/tjt-37.1.ed","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-37.1.ed","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48958471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John J. Collins. What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues.","authors":"J. Hübner","doi":"10.3138/TJT-2020-0091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/TJT-2020-0091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49254733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toronto School of Theology: Theses Completed Academic Year 2019–2020","authors":"","doi":"10.3138/tjt.37.1.131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt.37.1.131","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46603013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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