Marion Grau
Biographic Data
| ID | 8754271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Grau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Grau |
| SIGNATURE | GRAU M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Considering Hermeneutics, Method, and Cultural Diversity in Anglican and Episcopal Contexts
The history and continuing presence of British colonialism are inseparable from the past and present shape of the Anglican world. This has meant the spreading of a localized, specific form of Reformation Christianity in domains of the former British Empire, and the negotiation of how its local theology would interact with the multitude of local languages, cultures, and socio-religious practices. The reality of geopolitical, religio-cultural conte…
Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics
Grau reconsiders the relationship between "logos" and "mythos" as a precondition to opening theological hermeneutics to discourse from other cultures and genres, other modes of telling and retelling.
Theological Hermeneutics as Pattern Recognition
Traveling the crossroads of colonial encounters involves decoding the scrambled signals lost in the translations of bodies and lands. Times of travel necessitate increase in interpretive skills and practices. An understanding of how deeply religious questions informed colonial relations and continue to be present in contemporary quests for understanding—all too often in order to dominate—the other, while also rethinking the self, can be enhanced …
Fool’s Errand
I grew up in a town that included persons often labeled as "village idiots." One of them was Lina, a simple elderly woman, who lived a few houses up the hill. A few decades ago, it was still possible for people like her, who neither had an education nor were able to hold down a full-time job, to more or less live on their own without being institutionalized or homeless. She took care of horses in a stable in the back of a farmhouse that had belon…
Reframing Mythos and Logos
What myth means and how myth means something can be very differently perceived and manifested, especially across religious and cultural differences. Consider the following conversation that was part of a colonial encounter in Bali. Each person in the conversation manifests particular assumptions about the connection between mythological narrative and the ways in which it expresses truth, history, and invention:KeywordsFairy TaleChristian Theology…
Einleitung in Die Systematische Theologie – By Konrad Stock
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Einleitung in Die Systematische Theologie – By Konrad Stock
Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics
Grau reconsiders the relationship between "logos" and "mythos" as a precondition to opening theological hermeneutics to discourse from other cultures and genres, other modes of telling and retelling.
Theological Hermeneutics as Pattern Recognition
Traveling the crossroads of colonial encounters involves decoding the scrambled signals lost in the translations of bodies and lands. Times of travel necessitate increase in interpretive skills and practices. An understanding of how deeply religious questions informed colonial relations and continue to be present in contemporary quests for understanding—all too often in order to dominate—the other, while also rethinking the self, can be enhanced …
Fool’s Errand
I grew up in a town that included persons often labeled as "village idiots." One of them was Lina, a simple elderly woman, who lived a few houses up the hill. A few decades ago, it was still possible for people like her, who neither had an education nor were able to hold down a full-time job, to more or less live on their own without being institutionalized or homeless. She took care of horses in a stable in the back of a farmhouse that had belon…
Reframing Mythos and Logos
What myth means and how myth means something can be very differently perceived and manifested, especially across religious and cultural differences. Consider the following conversation that was part of a colonial encounter in Bali. Each person in the conversation manifests particular assumptions about the connection between mythological narrative and the ways in which it expresses truth, history, and invention:KeywordsFairy TaleChristian Theology…
Considering Hermeneutics, Method, and Cultural Diversity in Anglican and Episcopal Contexts
The history and continuing presence of British colonialism are inseparable from the past and present shape of the Anglican world. This has meant the spreading of a localized, specific form of Reformation Christianity in domains of the former British Empire, and the negotiation of how its local theology would interact with the multitude of local languages, cultures, and socio-religious practices. The reality of geopolitical, religio-cultural conte…
Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Hermeneutics (3 works) · Literature (3 works)