Michael P Dejonge
Biographic Data
| ID | 3099497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael P Dejonge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael P |
| FAMILY NAME | Dejonge |
| SIGNATURE | DEJONGE M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5607-8016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond the Eurocentrism of the Claim That Religion Is Western
There is now broad consensus in the academic study of religion that religion is Western. This article challenges that thesis by reframing it through a second widespread claim, namely, that religion is modern. If modernity is not Western, we would have reason to doubt that religion is Western. Indeed, global historians and sociologists challenge the Eurocentrism of the claim that modernity is Western, while global religious historians similarly ch…
We Have Been Modern After All
We survey recent scholarship on magic that rejects the disenchantment narrative about modernity for drawing boundaries between magic and science as well as between the modern West and its Others. This scholarship denies that magic is differentiated in modernity and, indeed, challenges the reality of modernity itself. We draw from theories of societal differentiation to argue for an alternative account of modernity that implies neither disenchantm…
Transcendence
Scholars of religion who make use of the concept of transcendence are likely to encounter objections that this concept is too vague, too metaphysical, and too theological for use in Religious Studies. This article develops a differential-phenomenological concept of transcendence that is not susceptible to these charges and that, thanks to its complex logical structure, is potentially fruitful for use in Religious Studies
People Doing Things
This article considers a common theoretical mood within the discipline of religious studies, one that is skeptical about the reality of religion but confident about the reality of people doing things. Analyzing this mood within the context of recent discussions surrounding realism, I argue that this mix of anti-realism with respect to religion and realism with respect to people doing things testifies to the lingering effects of a subject philosop…
Theology, History, and the Modern German University
Questions surrounding the genesis, development, and viability of modern academic theology have drawn renewed and heightened interest in recent years. Over the past decade, an increasing number of detailed studies have inquired into the emergence of scientific theology ( wissenschaftliche Theologie ) in the nineteenth century and its uneasy relationship with the shifting intellectual culture of the modern research university. This volume presents …
Theology, History, and the Modern German University
The contributors of this volume inquire into the contested concept of scientific theology ( wissenschaftliche Theologie ), the rise and fall of historicism, and the role of historical and critical theological methods in the modern research university in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Non‐Lutheran Influences, Scholarly Impasses, and Spiritual Authority
Bonhoeffer’s Reception of Luther
In Dietrich Bonhoeffer's writings, Martin Luther is ubiquitous. Too often, however, Bonhoeffer's Lutheranism has been set aside with much less argumentative work than is appropriate in light of his sustained engagement with Luther. As a result, Luther remains a largely untouched hermeneutic key in Bonhoeffer interpretation. In Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther, Michael P. DeJonge presents "Bonhoeffer's Lutheran theology of justification focused on…
Bonhoeffer's Non‐Commitment to Nonviolence
Stanley Hauerwas's claim that Bonhoeffer had a “commitment to nonviolence” runs aground on Bonhoeffer's own statements about peace, war, violence, and nonviolence. The fact that Hauerwas and others have asserted Bonhoeffer's commitment to nonviolence despite abundant evidence to the contrary reveals a blind spot that develops from reading Bonhoeffer's thinking in general and his statements about peace in particular as if they were part of an Anab…
How to read Bonhoeffer's peace statements
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's strong statements in support of peace have encouraged Stanley Hauerwas and other interpreters to read him, explicitly or implicitly, as participating in the theological tradition of the peace churches. This paper argues that this reading misinterprets Bonhoeffer's peace statements, which ought to be interpreted in the context of the Lutheran theological tradition with which Bonhoeffer identified. In fact, this misinterpretat…
The Bonhoeffer Reader
Jens Zimmermann, Humanism & Religion
The Transmission of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs By Christians
Les Pseudepigraphes de l'AT sont etudies comme litterature juive et regardes comme source documentaire pour l'histoire du Judaisme. Peut-on les etudier comme part de l'heritage chretien ? Les premiers chretiens ont continue a les recopier et a les transmettre jusqu'au Moyen-Age. Que peut-on dire sur leur importance pour les Chretiens a differentes periodes de l'histoire ? Quel usage en ont-ils fait ? Cette etude s'efforce de repondre a ces questi…
The Pre-Mosaic Servants of God in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and in the Writings of Justin and Irenaeus
The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible
Thessalonians in the Revised Standard Version
People Doing Things
This article considers a common theoretical mood within the discipline of religious studies, one that is skeptical about the reality of religion but confident about the reality of people doing things. Analyzing this mood within the context of recent discussions surrounding realism, I argue that this mix of anti-realism with respect to religion and realism with respect to people doing things testifies to the lingering effects of a subject philosop…
The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible
Thessalonians in the Revised Standard Version
The Pre-Mosaic Servants of God in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and in the Writings of Justin and Irenaeus
The Transmission of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs By Christians
Les Pseudepigraphes de l'AT sont etudies comme litterature juive et regardes comme source documentaire pour l'histoire du Judaisme. Peut-on les etudier comme part de l'heritage chretien ? Les premiers chretiens ont continue a les recopier et a les transmettre jusqu'au Moyen-Age. Que peut-on dire sur leur importance pour les Chretiens a differentes periodes de l'histoire ? Quel usage en ont-ils fait ? Cette etude s'efforce de repondre a ces questi…
Jens Zimmermann, Humanism & Religion
The Bonhoeffer Reader
How to read Bonhoeffer's peace statements
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's strong statements in support of peace have encouraged Stanley Hauerwas and other interpreters to read him, explicitly or implicitly, as participating in the theological tradition of the peace churches. This paper argues that this reading misinterprets Bonhoeffer's peace statements, which ought to be interpreted in the context of the Lutheran theological tradition with which Bonhoeffer identified. In fact, this misinterpretat…
Bonhoeffer's Non‐Commitment to Nonviolence
Stanley Hauerwas's claim that Bonhoeffer had a “commitment to nonviolence” runs aground on Bonhoeffer's own statements about peace, war, violence, and nonviolence. The fact that Hauerwas and others have asserted Bonhoeffer's commitment to nonviolence despite abundant evidence to the contrary reveals a blind spot that develops from reading Bonhoeffer's thinking in general and his statements about peace in particular as if they were part of an Anab…
Bonhoeffer’s Reception of Luther
In Dietrich Bonhoeffer's writings, Martin Luther is ubiquitous. Too often, however, Bonhoeffer's Lutheranism has been set aside with much less argumentative work than is appropriate in light of his sustained engagement with Luther. As a result, Luther remains a largely untouched hermeneutic key in Bonhoeffer interpretation. In Bonhoeffer's Reception of Luther, Michael P. DeJonge presents "Bonhoeffer's Lutheran theology of justification focused on…
Non‐Lutheran Influences, Scholarly Impasses, and Spiritual Authority
Theology, History, and the Modern German University
Questions surrounding the genesis, development, and viability of modern academic theology have drawn renewed and heightened interest in recent years. Over the past decade, an increasing number of detailed studies have inquired into the emergence of scientific theology ( wissenschaftliche Theologie ) in the nineteenth century and its uneasy relationship with the shifting intellectual culture of the modern research university. This volume presents …
Theology, History, and the Modern German University
The contributors of this volume inquire into the contested concept of scientific theology ( wissenschaftliche Theologie ), the rise and fall of historicism, and the role of historical and critical theological methods in the modern research university in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
People Doing Things
This article considers a common theoretical mood within the discipline of religious studies, one that is skeptical about the reality of religion but confident about the reality of people doing things. Analyzing this mood within the context of recent discussions surrounding realism, I argue that this mix of anti-realism with respect to religion and realism with respect to people doing things testifies to the lingering effects of a subject philosop…
Transcendence
Scholars of religion who make use of the concept of transcendence are likely to encounter objections that this concept is too vague, too metaphysical, and too theological for use in Religious Studies. This article develops a differential-phenomenological concept of transcendence that is not susceptible to these charges and that, thanks to its complex logical structure, is potentially fruitful for use in Religious Studies
We Have Been Modern After All
We survey recent scholarship on magic that rejects the disenchantment narrative about modernity for drawing boundaries between magic and science as well as between the modern West and its Others. This scholarship denies that magic is differentiated in modernity and, indeed, challenges the reality of modernity itself. We draw from theories of societal differentiation to argue for an alternative account of modernity that implies neither disenchantm…
Beyond the Eurocentrism of the Claim That Religion Is Western
There is now broad consensus in the academic study of religion that religion is Western. This article challenges that thesis by reframing it through a second widespread claim, namely, that religion is modern. If modernity is not Western, we would have reason to doubt that religion is Western. Indeed, global historians and sociologists challenge the Eurocentrism of the claim that modernity is Western, while global religious historians similarly ch…
Philosophy (14 works) · Theology (10 works) · History (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biblical studies (4 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)