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Svein Aage Christoffersen

2 papers in the library · publishing 2022-2023

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K.E. Løgstrup: Phenomenology of the Social World and Systematic Theology

Religions October 27, 2023 Svein Aage Christoffersen

In K.E. Løgstrup’s (1905–1981) theology, the point of intersection between phenomenology and systematic theology is our life experiences. In this article, Løgstrup’s way of combining phenomenology and theology is explored from the 1930s to the 1970s. The idea that life is not an amorphous abyss, but God’s creation runs like a connecting thread throughout Løgstrup’s oeuvre. This idea negating a...

Musikken og tapet av transcendens

Musikk og religion: Tekster om musikk i religion og religion i musikk 2022 Svein Aage Christoffersen

In the scientific secularisation of the modern worldview, music has lost its transcendent point of reference, taken for granted in pre-modern times. However, Protestant theology has contributed to this secularisation by a strict separation between (platonic) eros and (Christian) agape, and rejection of any kind of metaphysics. Consequently, and contrary to Martin Luther, music is from a...