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Luther on Necessity
Alfsvåg, Knut (Journal article, 2015)Among the quotations from Luther's works condemned by the pope in 1520 was the statement that free will is something that exists in name only. In his defense of this statement in Assertio omnium articulorum, published in ... -
Martin Luther og den inkarnatoriske virkelighetsforståelsen
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Luther var opptatt av den frigjørende og fornyende kraft i evangeliet om Jesus som frelser. Det gir hans tenkning et narrativt og kristosentrisk preg. Tonaturkristologien er derfor et viktig strukturerende prinsipp i hans ... -
Mellom dialog og identitet: Pave Frans om kirkens møte med miljøutfordringene
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)In 2015 Pope Francis published the encyclica Laudato Si, which discusses the challenges related to ecology and climate change. The pope maintains that the present crisis is created by what he calls the technological paradigm, ... -
"Mitt rike er ikke av denne verden". Om forholdet mellom nåde og politikk
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Jesus presents a demanding ethics and at the same time accepts sinners seemingly without any conditions. Luther integrates this perspective by maintaining both the absolute demands of the law and the unconditional gift of ... -
Negativ teologi og Kristus-mystikk hos Martin Luther
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På Luthers vis: om den sakssvarende bibellesnings forutsetninger og implikasjoner
Alfsvåg, Knut (Journal article, 2015)I sin bibellesning var Luther spesielt opptatt av bibeltekstens evne til å formidle Guds egenskaper til leseren. Inkarnasjonen som det sentrale innhold i den bibelske fortelling informerer de metaforer som formidler den, ... -
The rationality of madness: Did Plato, Cusanus and Kierkegaard get it right?
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Modern psychiatry has arguably been taken captive by the philosophical presuppositions of modernity to the extent that its descriptions of mental illness appear unstable and susceptible to misuse. Foucault pointed to ... -
Resonans på nådens frekvens: Luthersk antropologi som sjelesørgerisk utgangspunkt
Alfsvåg, Knut (Journal article, 2017)Luther er blitt kritisert for å ha en svært negativ antropologi, samtidig som han utfoldet en rik sjelesørgerisk praksis. Sammenhengen er at han fokuserer benådningens diskontinuitet og ordets makt svært sterkt. Troens ... -
The role of confirmation in christian initiation
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The relation between baptism, chrismation, and first communion has developed differently in different denominations. An important characteristic of this development is the establishment of confirmation as a separate rite ... -
The significance of participation in transcendence in Luther and Przywara
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Plato and Aristotle understood phenomena to be knowable to the extent that they participate in the reality of the unchangeable, and this attitude was appropriated by the church fathers as a way of exploring the world’s ... -
The commandment of love in Kierkegaard and Caputo
Alfsvåg, Knut (Journal article, 2014)What is the relation between the gospel of unconditional grace and the commandment of unconditional love, and what are the conditions for realizing the commandment when a Christian world view can no longer be taken for ... -
Transhumanism, Truth and Equality: Does the Transhumanist Vision Make Sense?
Alfsvåg, Knut (Journal article, 2015)Transhumanism maintains that technology will allow humans to develop beyond all known limits. This essay maintains that this entails both an epistemology and an anthropology that are inherently inconsistent. As an allegedly ... -
TYSK HELT ELLER ØKUMENISK KIRKELÆRER? Hovedtrekk fra 250 års Luther-forskning
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Artikkelen ønsker først og fremst å gi en oversikt over hovedlinjer i tysk Luther-forskning. De grunnleggende tolkningsparadigmer etableres allerede på slutten av 1700-tallet: Luther forstås delvis som en som frigjorde ... -
The unintended church: The movement for church unity and the establishment of the Kinki Evangelical Lutheran Church in Japan
Matsuda, Seiich; Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)When Norwegian Lutheran missionaries first came to Japan early in the 1950’s, they had no plans of establishing a separate Lutheran Church. There was already a well-established Lutheran Church in Japan, and the intention ... -
Unknowability and Incarnation: Creation and Christology as Philosophy of Science in the Work of Nicholas Cusanus.
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Nicholas Cusanus contributed to the development of modern science through a philosophy of unknowability, according to which the fact that the world makes sense is interpreted as a gift from the Creator, and the fact that ... -
“With God all things are possible” – Luther and Kierkegaard on the relation between immutability, necessity and possibility
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)If God is eternal, he is immutable and his relationship with the world is without change. Luther and Kierkegaard agree that this is the case, but disagree whether the idea of necessity adequately captures God’s relationship ... -
The wrath of a disappointed lover: On Luther’s attitude toward the jews
Alfsvåg, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Martin Luther is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of the Christian Church. 500 years ago this year, he published his 95 theses on indulgence, which launched one of the most remarkable revival movements ...