Religious polemics in context : papers presented to the second international conference of the Leiden institute for the study of religions (LISOR) held at Leiden, 27-28 April 2000 / edited by T. L. Hettema, A. van der Kooij.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Hettema, Theo L., editor.
• Kooij, Arie van der, 1945- editor.

Series:

• Studies in theology and religion ; Volume 11.
• Studies in Theology and Religion ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Polemics--Congresses--Religious aspects.
• Religious disputations--Congresses.
• Apologetics--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Assen, The Netherlands : Royal van Gorcum, [2004]

Summary:

Studies in Theology and Religion,11 Polemics, as "the art or practice of disputation or controversy", is a living issue in matters of religion, and is a major object of research for scholars in religious studies and theology. The second international conference of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (LISOR), held at Leiden in April 2000, was devoted to the subject of Religious Polemics in Context, aiming at a further exploration of the notion of religious polemics, together with the unfolding of a wide variety of case-studies from various religious traditions. The volume contains most of the papers read at the conference, and offers contributions on general issues (e.g., by M. Dascal), as well as on particular topics in the fields of history of religion (e.g., Islam), ancient Israel and early Christianity, the history of Christianity, and the social sciences of religion. An annotated bibliography is added to this collection, which may stimulate a further study of the topic.

Contents:

• Abbreviations of Periodicals
• Introduction
• I - GENERAL ISSUES
• On the Uses of Argumentative Reason in Religious Polemics - M. Dascal
• The Noble Art of Self-Defence: Schleiermacher and Von Clausewitz on Theological Polemics and the Theory of Warfare - T. L. Hettema
• II - HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
• A Question of Violence: Ashurnasirpal II's Ninurta Temple Inscription as a Religious Polemic - B. N. Porter
• Zoroastrian Religious Polemics and their Contexts: Interconfessional Relations in the Sasanian empire - A. F. de Jong
• Comment on the Lecture of A. F. de Jong - T. H. J. Clemens
• The Apology of Al-Kindî - P. S. van Koningsveld
• Dialogue with Other Faiths as an Aspect of Islamic Theology - D. Thomas
• Islamic Anti-Christian Polemics in the West. An Explorative and Typological Approach to a Contemporary Religious Phenomenon - S. Abdel Razaq
• Rabbi Kemper's Case for Christianity in his Matthew Commentary, with Reference to Exegesis - M. Eskhult
• The Triune and the Decaune God: Christianity and Kabbalah as Objects of Jewish Polemics, with Special Reference to Meir ben
• Simeon of Narbonne's Nfilhemet Mitzva - A. Goshen-Gottstein
• III - ANCIENT ISRAEL AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
• The Polemic of Biblical Monotheism: Outsider Context and Insider Referentiality in Second Isaiah - M. S. Smith
• Religious Polemics in Exile: The Creator God of Genesis 1 - L. C. Jonker
• Jeremiah 44: A Dispute on History and Religion - B. E. J. H. Becking
• Who Let Grain, Grapes and Olives Grow? Hosea's Polemics Against the Yahwists of Israel - W. Boshoff
• The Function of Religious Polemics: The Case of the Revelation of John Versus the Imperial Cult - H. J. de Jonge
• A Response to H. J. de Jonge - G. G. de Kruijf
• The Gospel of Mark as Polemic: The Persecution of the Markan Christian Community and the Purpose of Mark's Gospel - H. N. Roskam
• Pour une histoire de la séparation entre les communautés "chrétiennes" et les communautés "pharisiennes" (ca. 70-135 de
• notre ère) - S. C. Mimouni
• The Demonization of the Opponent in Early Christian Literature - J. Verheyden
• IV - HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
• Co-operation Between Church and State in the Condemnation of the Pelagians - M. Lamberigts
• Polemics, Apologetics, and Dialogue as Forms of Interreligious Communication Between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the
• Middle Ages - W. G. B. M. Valkenberg
• Religious Polemics and Ritual in Early Modern Germany's Confessional Churches - B. Nischan
• Ways of Polemicizing: The Power of Tradition in Christian Polemics - E. G. E. van der Wall
• Ethics or Dogmatics? The Case of "Rendtorff vs Barth" - D.N. Stegeman
• V - SOCIAL SCIENCES OF RELIGION
• The Social Importance of Religious Polemics - M. B. ter Borg
• On the Way Together: The Ups and Downs of Two Protestant Churches Trying to Reunite - W. J. van Noort
• Authority in Question: Tools for Analysis of a Controversy on "Religion" in Dutch Pluralist Society after the Second World War - J. O. van de Breevaart
• Anti-Ecumenical Polemics and the Creation of the United Church of Canada (1902-1925) - P. W. Staples
• AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Compiled by J. A. M. Snoek
• INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-49530-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004495302 DOI