Knut Alfsvåg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4866767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Knut Alfsvåg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Knut |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfsvåg |
| SIGNATURE | ALFSVÅG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1School of Mission and Theology Stavanger Norway, Email: [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4385-209X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
God Does Not Work in Us Without Us
Roman-Catholic scholars tend to interpret Luther’s emphasis on the exteriority of salvation as a critique of the goodness of creation. Through an analysis of De servo arbitrio, this article shows this to be wrong. While emphasizing the unconditionality of God’s work in both creation and salvation, Luther still insists that humans are created in God’s image as his co-operators, thus repeating the divine lordship over creation. This is further emph…
Luther on Necessity
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 December 1520, Luther goes one step further. Here he not only declares “free will” to be a concept without factual reference, he even insists that there is no one in the position even to think on one's own, either good or bad, a…
«Av motsatt eller samme kjønn» – om sekularismens ekteskapsforståelse som kirkelig og teologisk utfordring
Postmodern Epistemology and the Mission of the Church
A Christian missionary has traditionally been understood as one who stands for and represents truth. Is this a claim that can be defended within the context of postmodern epistemology? According to Derrida, there is an irreducible difference between sign and signified; all historical religions are therefore limited to the realm of the contingent and the deconstructible. Caputo develops this idea further in his understanding of the endlessly trans…
God's fellow workers
The question whether the concept of cooperation is a relevant description of the relation between the human and the divine is here investigated through an interpretation of some key texts by Maximus Confessor and Martin Luther. Maximus consistently maintains the theocentricity of restored humanity, emphasizing that it is manifested by humans relinquishing what is incompatible with the divine. In a similar way Luther explores the notion of the Chr…
Bokmeldinger
Troens fundament
Virtue, Reason and Tradition. A Discussion of Alasdair MacIntyre’s and Martin Luther’s Views on the Foundation of Ethics
Alasdair MacIntyre criticises the ethics of modernity as fallacious, and wants it replaced by Aristotelian virtue ethics. He is particularly critical concerning modernity’s non-contextual understanding of reason, and wants to renew the ethical significance of concepts like tradition and context. According to MacIntyre, the modern secularization of ethics starts with the understanding of original sin in the Lutheran Reformation and its destruction…
Kirkehistorie
Tradisjon og modernitet. En vurdering av argumentasjonen for endring av det kirkelige standpunkt til homofili
Hvem kjente herrens tanke, eller hvem var hans rådgiver
Reformers, the Preacher and Skepticism
The Furthest Goal
Reformation and Latin Literature in Northern Europe
Martin Luthers Kreuzestheologie
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Martin Luthers Kreuzestheologie
The Furthest Goal
Reformation and Latin Literature in Northern Europe
Reformers, the Preacher and Skepticism
Hvem kjente herrens tanke, eller hvem var hans rådgiver
Kirkehistorie
Tradisjon og modernitet. En vurdering av argumentasjonen for endring av det kirkelige standpunkt til homofili
Virtue, Reason and Tradition. A Discussion of Alasdair MacIntyre’s and Martin Luther’s Views on the Foundation of Ethics
Alasdair MacIntyre criticises the ethics of modernity as fallacious, and wants it replaced by Aristotelian virtue ethics. He is particularly critical concerning modernity’s non-contextual understanding of reason, and wants to renew the ethical significance of concepts like tradition and context. According to MacIntyre, the modern secularization of ethics starts with the understanding of original sin in the Lutheran Reformation and its destruction…
Bokmeldinger
Troens fundament
God's fellow workers
The question whether the concept of cooperation is a relevant description of the relation between the human and the divine is here investigated through an interpretation of some key texts by Maximus Confessor and Martin Luther. Maximus consistently maintains the theocentricity of restored humanity, emphasizing that it is manifested by humans relinquishing what is incompatible with the divine. In a similar way Luther explores the notion of the Chr…
«Av motsatt eller samme kjønn» – om sekularismens ekteskapsforståelse som kirkelig og teologisk utfordring
Postmodern Epistemology and the Mission of the Church
A Christian missionary has traditionally been understood as one who stands for and represents truth. Is this a claim that can be defended within the context of postmodern epistemology? According to Derrida, there is an irreducible difference between sign and signified; all historical religions are therefore limited to the realm of the contingent and the deconstructible. Caputo develops this idea further in his understanding of the endlessly trans…
Luther on Necessity
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 December 1520, Luther goes one step further. Here he not only declares “free will” to be a concept without factual reference, he even insists that there is no one in the position even to think on one's own, either good or bad, a…
God Does Not Work in Us Without Us
Roman-Catholic scholars tend to interpret Luther’s emphasis on the exteriority of salvation as a critique of the goodness of creation. Through an analysis of De servo arbitrio, this article shows this to be wrong. While emphasizing the unconditionality of God’s work in both creation and salvation, Luther still insists that humans are created in God’s image as his co-operators, thus repeating the divine lordship over creation. This is further emph…
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)