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The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300, 2024
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Studia theologica islandica - Ritröð guðfræðistofnunar , 2023
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Iceland: A New Social Reality ... more The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Iceland: A New Social Reality [In Icelandic].
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Iceland faces difficult challenges. The faculty’s largest problem is attendance, which has steadily decreased in the last two decades. In light of the wide-ranging social shifts taking place in the religious field in Iceland in the last two decades, this article seeks to explain the situation in which the faculty now finds itself. These shifts entail, most importantly, increased pluralization in the religious field and the completely changed position of the Lutheran majority church, the Icelandic national church, which does not enjoy the same hegemony as before, and therefore and for other reasons mentioned in the article, is dealing with its own crisis. Because of the historical, cultural, and practical ties between The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and the national church of Iceland, the article argues that the crises of these two institutions are strongly connected and overlap. Suggestions about how to react to the challenges the faculty is facing are introduced in the final section of the article.
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Studia Theologica Islandica, 2019
In early 1923, a correspondence between the theologians Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) and Karl Ba... more In early 1923, a correspondence between the theologians Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) and Karl Barth (1886–1968) appeared in the German theological journal Christliche Welt. Respectively, Harnack and Barth represented two of the most prominent post-Enlighten-ment theological currents. At the time, Harnack was widely regarded as the leading voice of theological liberalism while Barth was seen as the champion of neo-orthodoxy or dialectical theology, a theological movement on the rise. The correspondence attracted much attention and still today it is seen amongst the most important theological debates of the 20th century. The present article contains a translation of the original 15 questions posed by Harnack and Barth’s answers to them and a commentary on the debate.
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Working Paper Series of the CASHSS “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” 24. Leipzig University,, 2022
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Studia theologica islandica - Ritröð guðfræðistofnunar, 2023
Review of Religionswissenschaft und Theologie: Disziplinen diskursiv denken by Christiane Nagel. ... more Review of Religionswissenschaft und Theologie: Disziplinen diskursiv denken by Christiane Nagel. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.
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Church History, 2023
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The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Iceland faces difficult challenges. The faculty’s largest problem is attendance, which has steadily decreased in the last two decades. In light of the wide-ranging social shifts taking place in the religious field in Iceland in the last two decades, this article seeks to explain the situation in which the faculty now finds itself. These shifts entail, most importantly, increased pluralization in the religious field and the completely changed position of the Lutheran majority church, the Icelandic national church, which does not enjoy the same hegemony as before, and therefore and for other reasons mentioned in the article, is dealing with its own crisis. Because of the historical, cultural, and practical ties between The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and the national church of Iceland, the article argues that the crises of these two institutions are strongly connected and overlap. Suggestions about how to react to the challenges the faculty is facing are introduced in the final section of the article.
Book Reviews by Haraldur Hreinsson
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Iceland faces difficult challenges. The faculty’s largest problem is attendance, which has steadily decreased in the last two decades. In light of the wide-ranging social shifts taking place in the religious field in Iceland in the last two decades, this article seeks to explain the situation in which the faculty now finds itself. These shifts entail, most importantly, increased pluralization in the religious field and the completely changed position of the Lutheran majority church, the Icelandic national church, which does not enjoy the same hegemony as before, and therefore and for other reasons mentioned in the article, is dealing with its own crisis. Because of the historical, cultural, and practical ties between The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and the national church of Iceland, the article argues that the crises of these two institutions are strongly connected and overlap. Suggestions about how to react to the challenges the faculty is facing are introduced in the final section of the article.