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Kan et samfund leve af tro? : Om forholdet mellem Romerbrevet 1,17 og luthersk tillidskultur
No full text“The righteous will live by faith.” With this quote from Hab. 2:4, Paul concludes his summary of the gospel in Romans 1:17. To Paul, living by faith means trusting God’s promise of salvation and faithfully following his commandments, which express the norms of the community. In this article, I analyse Paul’s vision of a universal, trust-based community and its influence on Luther’s theology which underlines trust as the hallmark of a sound community – with God and fellow human beings. Meditating on Romans 1:17, Luther realised that rather than being a vindictive judge, God is a loving giver who initiates a mutually obliging trust relation with humans through his self-giving in Christ. Nuancing 20th century Lutheran theology’s one-eyed focus on individual righteousness, I claim that this reformatory discovery entails a new understanding of community as built around trust in God and God-given authority rather than punishment and reward. Moreover, I argue for the potential impact of this Pauline-Lutheran trust-centered notion of community on the historic development of a Danish trust culture, pointing to Grundtvig and Løgstrup as two influential Lutheran theologians who promote trust as a defining characteristic of Danish society
Tone Bleie. A New Testament. Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence. Solum Bokvennen 2023
No full textRe-thinking a Sacred Space: The evolution of burial practices as seen from a Bronze Age tumulus from Karlstrup, Denmark
No full textIn this paper, we use a cultural evolution framework and methods to explore how continuity and change can be observed in a relatively small, enclosed space – a single prehistoric burial mound, from Karlstrup, Denmark, with a long and complex history of re-use. This burial mound was extensively used and re-used across the Late Neolithic ‘Dagger Period’ and Early Nordic Bronze Age. Although archaeologists have long acknowledged the burial traditions of these two periods as quite distinct from each other, there is still much to be explored regarding what – if any – cultural evolutionary relationships there may be between societies across these periods (i.e., whether Nordic Bronze Age uses of sacred spaces, such as burial grounds, can be shown to have evolved from pre-existing Neolithic uses). By mapping a series of 41 cultural traits across the many funerary entities within burial Mound 4 at Karlstrup, we trace the degree of change, continuity, and coherence (i.e. cultural evolution) between Late Neolithic and Early Nordic Bronze Age burial traditions across time. We then relate these findings back to contemporaneous changes in notions of identity and social status in later European prehistory. ..
Organizing Warriors in the 6th and 7th century AD: The Evidence of the Stray Finds in East Denmark
No full textLate Germanic Iron Age weapon burials from Bornholm, Denmark, have been used to suggest the presence of a Merovingian inspired organization of warriors including conscripts. This article compares these burials’ inventory, focusing on the first part of the Late Ger-manic Iron Age (AD 520-630), to the distribution of similar types of metal stray-finds. Mapping the stray-finds from Bornholm indicates the whereabouts of the warriors and it is discussed whether this can contribute to a plausible representation of warriors and a geographically rooted organization of warriors. This evidence is tested on equivalent stray-find material from Sjælland and adjacent islands where weapon burials are almost absent. The study shows a difference between the burial inventory and the stray-finds regarding relative numbers of specific object types, and it is clear that the standardized set of weapons originally assumed to picture the conscripted warrior cannot be found. It is proposed that answers to how, why and in what numbers armed men were gathered are to be found in a combination of the martial mentality and ideology of the society in general and in a social code of conduct with mutual obligations between free men and leaders and between leaders of different ranks
Inter-human perspectivism and ancestor veneration in Late Neolithic/ Bronze Age Southwestern Norway
No full textThe transition of nomadic hunter-gatherers into sedentary farmers marks the beginning of the Neolithic period. However, the Neolithic was more than just a social and economic transition. It signified the onset of a new worldview which re-defined ways of thinking about the world, and the role and place of humans within it. As such, this era encompassed a lot more than simply the adoption of new technologies and the formation of new social structures. Drawing on ethnographic work on north Asian ontologies, this paper argues that the Late Neolithic (LN) transition in Rogaland, Southwestern Norway, was marked by a shift to inter-human perspectivism. This shift was accompanied by a growing interest in ancestral perspectives, leading to an increase in ancestor-oriented rituals that ranged from simple commemorative practices honouring the deceased to elaborate public spectacles and hero cults. While the primary focus of this paper is on the Late Neolithic/ Early Bronze Age, comparative insights from the Late Bronze Age are included, particularly in the discussion of hoards, due to the relative scarcity of material from Rogaland
The potential of overlooked material in museum repositories: Revisiting grave materials in Falbygden through multiproxy analyses
No full textIn this article we aim to highlight the potential of forgotten grave materials in our museum depositories for gaining insights into prehistoric life. By applying a multi-proxy approach to the skeletal remains of two graves of uncertain types from Falbygden in western Sweden, we were able to acquire new knowledge of burial practices, subsistence, health and mobility in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age communities. One of the studied graves proved to be the earliest attested gallery grave in the area, while the other is one of the few known graves from the first period of the Bronze Age. The results indicate that some overlooked excavated materials in our depositories might stem from certain time periods from which we think archaeological remains are lacking and/or from practices which are not fully understood. These remains may prove to be important for our understanding of prehistoric societies when thoroughly studied combining archaeological, osteological, biochemical and geochemical methods
Tavse Maria og larmende kvinder: Et prisbelønnet speciale om feminitet og moderskab
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Hvornår er et EU-formandskab en succes?
No full textDanmarks EU-formandskab i andet halvår af 2025 finder sted i en brydningstid præget af kriser, polarisering og store forventninger. Artiklen argumenterer for, at et formandskabs succes ikke alene kan måles i antallet af afsluttede forhandlinger eller vedtagne retsakter. I stedet må det vurderes ud fra Danmarks evne til at understøtte europæisk sammenhold, sætte en troværdig dagsorden og reagere strategisk og samlende i et Europa præget af kriser og forandring