Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft

Biographic Data

ID6251088
NAMERuth Jackson Ravenscroft
GIVEN NAMESRuth Jackson
FAMILY NAMERavenscroft
SIGNATURERAVENSCROFT R J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0002-0924-2802
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity

    Open AccessSimon Goldhill, Ruth Jackson RavenscroftEDITORBOOKVictorian Engagements with the…2023

    The nineteenth century was a period in which ideas of history and time were challenged as never before. This is the first book to explore how the study of classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed an image of the past which became central to Victorian self-understanding. These specially commissioned, multi-disciplinary essays brilliantly reveal the richness of Victorian thinking about the past and how important these models o…

  • Genderealogy

    Open AccessChristine Helmer, Ruth Jackson RavenscroftARTICLEModern Theology2023

    This essay addresses the problem of the sexed and gendered subject of genealogy, and the binary central to the fixing of male agents in the self‐narration of disciplines in genealogy. Feminist and womanist theories are considered for their strategies of repair, such as the retrieval of women erased from genealogy, the repositioning of women as transgressive subjects from an hermeneutical perspective, and the task of changing the imaginary around …

  • Response to Constanze Güthenke

    Ruth Jackson RavenscroftARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2022

  • Theology and politics in the German imagination, 1789–1848

    Ruth Jackson RavenscroftARTICLEGlobal Intellectual History2020

    This piece introduces a special issue of Global Intellectual History, on the theme of Theology and Politics in the German Imagination, 1789–1848. The essays in the issue proceed from a conference of the same name, held in Cambridge at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), in July 2017, which was supported by funds from the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub. The event was primed to consider the distinctive relatio…

  • Photography, Finitude, and the Human Self through Time

    Ruth Jackson, Ruth Jackson RavenscroftARTICLETelos2017

    I. Introduction In 1931, Walter Benjamin wrote an explosive little essay on the history of photography. He opened it by citing a nineteenth-century editorial from a German newspaper, which in his view represented the “ludicrous” and “anti-technological” attitude to photography that persisted even in his own day. “To try to capture fleeting images is not just an impossible undertaking,” said the editorial, “the very wish to do such a thing is blas…

  • Creation, temporality and the Lord's Supper in Friedrich Schleiermacher's dogmatic theology

    Open AccessRuth Jackson, Ruth Jackson RavenscroftARTICLETheology2013

    Friedrich Schleiermacher's dogmatic project The Christian Faith is shaped by a powerful doctrine of eternal divine creation. Furthermore, it is characterized not only by a sensibility for the historical nature of the theological task but also by an emphasis upon the Incarnation as the temporal fulfilment of God's will. This article seeks to demonstrate how these three points about Schleiermacher's system play out in his depiction of Eucharistic p…

  • "Our Plan," Program 1 in The Prize

    Glenn Porter, Jonathan Taplin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    “Our Plan,” program 1 in The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. Prod. by Jonathan Taplin and Ruth Jackson. InVision Productions for Majestic Films in association with BBC-TV, MICO, and WGBH-TV, 1993. 58 mins. (Public Media Video, 5547 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL 60640) Get access Glenn Porter Glenn Porter Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…