G W Trompf
Biographic Data
| ID | 143783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G W Trompf |
| GIVEN NAMES | G W |
| FAMILY NAME | Trompf |
| SIGNATURE | TROMPF G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6676-0198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction, with Highlights in the History of Australian Patristic Studies
The core focus of the study of Patristics (generally also called Patrology) has been the teachings and practices of the so-called Fathers and Mothers of the early Christian Church (or the leading exponents of the Christian Faith, primarily from after the times of Jesus of Nazareth and the writings of the New Testament to the so-called Early Middle Ages (or the emergence of Islam) (e
An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter
The ancient correspondence allegedly between the Toparch Abgar V of Edessa and Jesus of Nazareth is usually treated in modern scholarship as legendary, though possession of it was important for the legitimation of Armenia as the first Christian kingdom in ca. 314 A.D. (prior to Constantine’s ‘Christian’ rule of a united Roman Empire from 324, and well before Theodosius I ’s Edict of Thessalonica in 380). This paper attempts to create a demytholog…
MarioBaghos: From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021; pp. xxiii + 254
Religion's Origin: Returns to Grand Theory
Two recent impressive works probe religion's origins
Tribute: Friedegard Elsbeth Tomasetti, 1937-2020
Gnostic Islam: Transformations of Classic Gnostic Speculation in Muslim Thought
This article constitutes a brief introduction to Gnostic Islam, assessing the inheritance and transformations of classic Gnostic speculation in Muslim thought and practice, especially in Shi‘a theologies and Sufism. The survey covers both esoteric and exoteric aspects
CWL Speaks: C.W. Leadbeater’s Correspondence concerning the 1906 Crisis in the Theosophical Society, by Pedro Oliveira (comp.) & Searching for Spirit: Theosophy in Australia, 1879–1939, by Jill Roe
Jill Roe: Searching for the Spirit: Theosophy in Australia, 1879 – 1939 . Adelaide: Wakefield, 2020; pp. xi + 366
Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval and Irish Geographical Imaginations, written by Matthias Egeler
Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology, by Albrecht Classen (ed.)
GeoffreyBenjamin: Temiar Religion , 1964–2012: Enchantment , Disenchantment and Re‐Enchantment in Malaysia's Uplands . Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2014; pp. xix + 450
Ruth Skilbeck: The Writer's Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity . Newcastle (Australia): Postmistress, 2017; pp. iv + 436
Albrecht Classen: The Forest in Medieval German Literature: Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective , Ecocritical Theory and Practice, vol. 8 Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015; pp. x + 243
Julian Droogan: Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology. London: Bloomsbury, 2013; pp. xi + 196
New Religious Movements in Oceania
Research Article| May 01 2015 New Religious Movements in Oceania Garry W. Trompf Garry W. Trompf Guest-Editor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney, Room N421, A20 – John Woolley Building, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. Email: [email protected] Nova Religio (2015) 18 (4): 5–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.4.5 Views Icon Views Arti…
Edwin A.Judge: The First Christians in the Roman World: Augustan and New Testament Essays. Ed. James R.Harrison. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008; pp. xix + 786
HenryFrendo: Europe and Empire: Culture, Politics and Identity in Malta and the Mediterranean (1912–1946). Sta Venera, Malta: Midsea Books, 2012; pp. xii + 872
Ethno-Religious Minorities in the Near East: Some Macrohistorical Reflections with Special Reference to the Zazas
The historical study of ethnic and religious minorities in the Near East presents as an endless task for years ahead. This paper offers a tour d’horizon of key minority issues from ca. 1300 B.C. to the present while plotting the way minorities―whether defeated, put under serious constraint, tolerated or marginalised―have been conceptualised in the historical record. Looking at history this way opens up the richness and importance of ‘minority stu…
AlbrechtClassen: Sex im Mittelalter: Die andere Seite einer idealisierten Vergangenheit: Literatur und Sexualität. Badenweiler: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Bachmann, 2011; pp. 369
Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements: Transoceanic Comparisons of New Religious Movements
Seven Books of History against the Pagans (review)
Reviewed by: Seven Books of History against the Pagans Garry W. Trompf Seven Books of History against the Pagans. By Paulus Orosius. Translated with an introduction and notes by Andrew T. Fear. [Translated Texts for Historians, Vol. 54.] (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Distributed by the University of Chicago Press. 2010. Pp. viii, 456. $39.95 paperback. ISBN 978-1-84631-239-7.) In Paulus Orosius’s Historia adversus paganos (c. 418 AD) we…
Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 – By A. J. Murphy
The Secret Doctrine Commentaries: The Unpublished 1889 Instructions
Melanesian Religion
Religion and retributive logic: Essays in honour of professor Garry W. Trompf
On Depiction and Language
Millenarism: History, Sociology, and Cross‐Cultural Analysis
The Millennium, Not the Cargo
This article compares ideas about the coming millennium in two culturally different parts of Papua New Guinea: Sek in Madang Province and Kasap in Enga Province. In both areas the Catholic church is historically predominant. Concerns and questions about whether the millennium will be marked by Christ's Second Coming are expressed with equal fervency in both areas, and there has been a transformation from more materialistic interests in cargo to m…
Macrohistory and Acculturation: Between Myth and History in Modern Melanesian Adjustments and Ancient Gnosticism
Historical consciousness has not been a prized possession in most human cultures, and a sense of a time that considers social affairs to have been developing over several hundreds of years [prior to the present] and by agents ⋯μοουσἱος ⋯μîνx(of essentially the same being as ourselves) is actually a cultural oddity. Most of the thousands of the world's cultures are discrete primal societies-many of them small-that constitute the ethnographic panor…
An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter
The ancient correspondence allegedly between the Toparch Abgar V of Edessa and Jesus of Nazareth is usually treated in modern scholarship as legendary, though possession of it was important for the legitimation of Armenia as the first Christian kingdom in ca. 314 A.D. (prior to Constantine’s ‘Christian’ rule of a united Roman Empire from 324, and well before Theodosius I ’s Edict of Thessalonica in 380). This paper attempts to create a demytholog…
Introduction I: The Long History of Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship
Missiology and Anthropology: A Viable Relationship
Theologische Beiträge aus Papua Neuguinea . Edited by Horst Bürkle ( Erlanger Taschenbücher 43 ). Erlangen: Evangelische ‐ Lutheranische Mission, 1978. Pp. 345. Traditionen und Christentum in Chimbu‐Gebiet Neuguineas; Beobachtungen in der Lutherischen Gemeinde Pare . By Friedegard Tomasetti. ( Arbeiten aus dem Seminar für Völkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe‐Universität Frankfurt an Main 6 ). Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner. 1976. Pp. 200. Papuan Beli…
Radical Conservatism in Herbert Spencer's Educational Thought
Radical conservatism in Herbert Spencer's educational thought
(1969). Radical conservatism in Herbert Spencer's educational thought. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 267-280
Friedrich Max Müller: Some Preliminary Chips from his German Workshop
The First Resurrection Appearance and the Ending of Mark's Gospel
Early Christian literature leaves us with apparently conflicting traditions about the first appearance of the risen Lord, although these traditions can be reduced to at least two main classes. On the one hand, some writers give Peter pride of place; he heads the list in Paul's ‘official’ παράδοσις of I Corinthians xv, and takes priority in both Luke (xxiv. 34) and the late second-century Gospel of Peter (xiii. 57 – xiv. 60). On the other hand, so…
La section médiane de l'évangile de Luc: L'Organisation Des Documents
Les chap. 9 à 19 de l'Evangile de Luc juxtaposent dans un désordre apparent des péricopes très diverses que le thème du voyage vers Jérusalem ne relie entre elles que d'une façon très lâche. On a cherché très loin la logique sous-jacente à cet entassement un peu déroutant. Elle est en réalité tout simple. En historien consciencieux, Luc s'efforce de mettre en valeur V enseignement de son héros, Jésus, en faisant alterner les trois thèmes principa…
The Concept of the Carolingian Renaissance
Any return to the Renaissance debate may seem somewhat futile, like the proverbialfouettement d'un chat perhaps, yet it may well be refreshing to enter that worn battleground of historical controversy from a different angle, and to begin our investigations, not in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but in the eighth and ninth, not with Petrarch and the Quattrocento humanists, but with Northumbrian, Frankish, and Italian scholars of a very mu…
Luke and Antiphon: The Theology of Acts 27-28 in the Light of Pagan Beliefs about Divine Retribution, Pollution, and Shipwreck
The account of Paul's sea journey from Caesarea to Rome, and of the shipwreck off Malta, is probably the “dramatic center” of Acts. It is the moving bridge between the mysterious scene of Christian origins and the awesome power of the Roman forum, and it is an adventure recounted with much more than Luke's usual amount of detail. The task of commenting on the passages in question (27:1-28:16) presents certain difficulties, since it is hard to dec…
Social Science in Historical Perspective
The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought: From Antiquity to the Reformation
The concept of viewing historical change as a cyclical process is analyzed, beginning with the works of Polybius, historian of the Roman empire, and ending with Machiavelli, with an examination of the biblical concept of historical change
The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought. From Antiquity to the Reformation
Independent Churches and Recent Ecstatic Phenomena in Melanesia: A Survey of Materials
Independent Churches in Melanesia
A Christian Social Perspective
Rationality: Reconstructable, Relative and What Else? Comments on the Rethinking of Paul Tibbetts
Missiology and Anthropology: A Viable Relationship
Theologische Beiträge aus Papua Neuguinea . Edited by Horst Bürkle ( Erlanger Taschenbücher 43 ). Erlangen: Evangelische ‐ Lutheranische Mission, 1978. Pp. 345. Traditionen und Christentum in Chimbu‐Gebiet Neuguineas; Beobachtungen in der Lutherischen Gemeinde Pare . By Friedegard Tomasetti. ( Arbeiten aus dem Seminar für Völkerkunde der Johann Wolfgang Goethe‐Universität Frankfurt an Main 6 ). Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner. 1976. Pp. 200. Papuan Beli…
Western Folktales in Changing Melanesia
THE literature on the indigenous folktales, legends and myths of Melanesia is everexpanding.' However, because over one quarter of the discrete cultures of the world are present in this southwest Pacific region alone, the work of collating the ethnohistorical relationships of folklore from west New Guinea to Fiji has barely begun. Why similar stories turn up in diverse parts of the region, for instance, without any tell-tale signs of a possible m…
The Gospel Is Not Western: Black Theologies from the Southwest Pacific
On Depiction and Language
Macrohistory and Acculturation: Between Myth and History in Modern Melanesian Adjustments and Ancient Gnosticism
Historical consciousness has not been a prized possession in most human cultures, and a sense of a time that considers social affairs to have been developing over several hundreds of years [prior to the present] and by agents ⋯μοουσἱος ⋯μîνx(of essentially the same being as ourselves) is actually a cultural oddity. Most of the thousands of the world's cultures are discrete primal societies-many of them small-that constitute the ethnographic panor…
Rufinus and the Logic of Retribution in Post-Eusebian Church Histories
It is no secret that the great orthodox ecclesiastical historians of the fourth and fifth centuries were purveyors of the new Christian imperial ideology. They as much as any group of writers laid the foundations of Byzantinism, by demonstrating from the course of events how it paid for emperors to be pious according to the prescriptions of the Catholic tradition, or how much better it was for the security, prosperity and destiny of the Roman Emp…
Melanesian Religion
Melanesian Religion
Melanesian Religion
Melanesian Religion
African Philosophy and the Relativities of Rationality: In Response to Carole Pearce
L'A. rejette les theses sociologiques de C. Pearce, selon lesquelles la notion de rationalite cede la place a un irrationalisme, au nom de sa propre conception des relativites de la rationalite qui rendent compte des contingences culturelles et regionales de la pensee philosophique
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