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Silence is Golden: Freedom of Speech and the Old Catholic Observer at the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)
No full textOld Catholic Theology: An Introduction
No full textOld Catholic theology is the theology that is characteristic of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht. Old Catholic Theology: An Introduction, authored by Peter-Ben Smit, an acknowledged expert in the field, outlines the main characteristics of and influences on Old Catholic theology, as well as the extant ecumenical relationships of the Old Catholic Churches. In doing so, it covers what may be called 'mainstream' Old Catholic theology, while also discussing the diversity within the Old Catholic tradition. Particular attention is given to the Old Catholic approach to theology in general and to ecclesiology, sacramental theology and ecumenical theology in particular. Further foci include the version of communio-theology, the appertaining sacramental understanding of the church, the inherent connection between theology and (liturgical) spirituality, the distinct branch of communal hermeneutics and the understanding of the appeal to the early Church that Old Catholic theologians developed in the course of the 20th century
Een nieuwe wereldorde: Een exegetische schets bij het pinksterverhaal in Handelingen
No full textIn Handelingen 1:8 voorzegt Jezus hoe de heilige Geest zijn leerlingen de kracht zal geven om het goede nieuws bekend te maken ‘in Jeruzalem, in heel Judea en Samaria, tot aan de uiteinden van de aarde’. Peter-Ben Smit laat zien welke ‘mentale wereldkaart’ er schuilt achter deze gebiedsaanduidingen. Het boek Handelingen beschrijft de vestiging van een alternatieve wereldorde, het rijk van de Geest. Het pinksterverhaal van Handelingen 2 is daarvan niet alleen het startpunt, maar ook een symbolische vooruitblik op het eindpunt
Genderhistory: beyond forgotten voices
No full textIn 2016 is het 40 jaar geleden dat de eerste bijzondere hoogleraar vanwege het Oud-Katholiek Seminarie, dr. Jan Visser, zijn oratie uitsprak aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Met het symposium “Herbronning” keek het seminarie terug op vier decennia vruchtbare theologiebeoefening en wierp een blik in de toekomst. Alle vier leerstoelhouders, prof. Visser, prof. Jan Hallebeek, prof. Angela Berlis en prof. Peter-Ben Smit spraken vanuit hun expertise. Experts van de Universiteit Utrecht en zusterinstellingen reageerden op hen
Genderhistory: beyond forgotten voices
No full textIn 2016 is het 40 jaar geleden dat de eerste bijzondere hoogleraar vanwege het Oud-Katholiek Seminarie, dr. Jan Visser, zijn oratie uitsprak aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Met het symposium “Herbronning” keek het seminarie terug op vier decennia vruchtbare theologiebeoefening en wierp een blik in de toekomst. Alle vier leerstoelhouders, prof. Visser, prof. Jan Hallebeek, prof. Angela Berlis en prof. Peter-Ben Smit spraken vanuit hun expertise. Experts van de Universiteit Utrecht en zusterinstellingen reageerden op hen
Genderhistory: beyond forgotten voices
No full textIn 2016 is het 40 jaar geleden dat de eerste bijzondere hoogleraar vanwege het Oud-Katholiek Seminarie, dr. Jan Visser, zijn oratie uitsprak aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Met het symposium “Herbronning” keek het seminarie terug op vier decennia vruchtbare theologiebeoefening en wierp een blik in de toekomst. Alle vier leerstoelhouders, prof. Visser, prof. Jan Hallebeek, prof. Angela Berlis en prof. Peter-Ben Smit spraken vanuit hun expertise. Experts van de Universiteit Utrecht en zusterinstellingen reageerden op hen
Food and Fellowship in the Kingdom: Studies in the Eschatological Meal and Scenes of Nutritional Abundance in the New Testament
No full textPeter-Ben Smit undertakes the first encompassing study of New Testament eschatological meals and scenes of nutritional abundance. His study thus fillls a large gap in current research. In terms of its main contributions and emphases, the study challenges the widespread assumption that the origin of the imagery of eschatological meal fellowship and nutritional abundance can be found in Isa 25:6–8 by showing how the images of meal fellowship and nutritional abundance played a signicant role in the (utopian) thinking of the Ancient Near East as well as the Mediterranean world. Thus, the book helps to do away with widespread assumptions about these meals with its detailed studies of the individual texts. Furthermore, the typology of eschatological meals and scenes of nutritional abundance presented here will help to differentiate between different kinds of traditions and their various functions and emphases. Through the integration of the various texts in their socio-historical context, the author shows how these texts, particularly the eschatological meals, interact with
contemporary »symposiastic ideology.« At the same time, the book's synchronic backbone
facilitates a demonstration of how the various eschatological meals and scenes of nutritional
abundance interact with other meal scenes in the NT books discussed, and this leads to a better understanding of what kind of literary and theological interests the four canonical Gospels and the Apocalypse of John have in their use of these traditions and of banqueting scenes and scenes of nutritional abundance in general
Food in Fourth Ezra
No full textIn 4 Ezra foodstuffs and their (non-) consumption are of considerable importance. Researching it is of relevance for a number of reasons. First, out of an interest in the literary (and theological) structure of 4 Ezra, a prominent topic such as this is worth researching. Second, the fact that that foodstuffs and their meaning were of high importance in the social world of Ezra, conveying a range of meanings, invites such research. Third, as foodstuffs and meals are closely related to what human beings need for their subsistence, studying them may shed light on the social context of 4 Ezra. In pursuing this topic, therefore, one studies more than just meals and foodstuffs, as they are related to the literary character of the work its theological position and its social world
Felix Culpa:Ritual Failure and theological innovation in Early Christianity
No full textIn Felix culpa: Ritual Failure and Theological Innovation in Early Christianity, Peter-Ben Smit argues that ritual developments were key to the development of early Christianity. Focusing on rituals that go wrong, he shows precisely how ritual infelicities are a catalyst for reflection upon ritual and their development in terms of their performance as well as the meaning attributed to them. Smit discusses texts from the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark, and provides a chapter on Philo of Alexandria by way of contextualization in the Greco-Roman world. By stressing the importance of ritual, the present book invites a reconsideration of all too doctrinally focused approaches to early Christian communities and identities. It also highlights the embodied and performative character of what being in Christ amounted to two millennia ago
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