Texts and blog posts in English by Bengt Rasmusson

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Det finns ingen väg till fred på säkerhetens väg

21 Sep 2023 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, fredsarbete 0 comments
Fanö 2023

"Fred måste vågas, den är en stor risk och kan aldrig säkras. Fred är motsatsen till säkerhet."

Radical Orthodoxy on Catholicism, Protestantism and Liberalism/Liberality

13 Feb 2020 Bengt Rasmusson *English, Radical Ortodoxy, liberalism, political theology, politics, quantitative methods 0 comments
The Politics of Virtue

Arne Rasmusson on the use of historical narratives and quantitative methods in political theology, with special reference to Radical Orthodoxy, catholicism, protestantism, and liberalism/liberality.

Sätta upp Bibeln likt en Shakespearepjäs

1 Jul 2017 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, bibeln, församlingen 0 comments
Kroborgs Slott

Anton Johnsson samtalar med Arne Rasmusson om Bibeln, bibelbruk, församlingspraktiker, om hans tid som församlingsplanterare med mera.

"And he chooses us"

22 Mar 2016 Bengt Rasmusson *English, Samuel Wells, being with, kärlek, love, vara med 0 comments
Samuel Wells about "being with" and the very definition of love

"At the central moment in history, Jesus, the incarnate Son of God, has to choose between being with the Father and being with us. And he chooses us. At the same time the Father has to choose between letting the Son be with us and keeping the Son to Himself. And he chooses to let the Son be with us."

What is the difference between a hero and a saint?

31 Oct 2015 Bengt Rasmusson 0 comments

A hero fears failure, flees mistakes, and knows no repentance: the saint knows that light only comes through cracks, that beauty is as much (if not more) about restoration as about creation.

The hero's story is always about the hero. The saint is always at the periphery of a story that is really about God.

Corpus Christianum or Corpus Christi?

22 Jun 2015 Bengt Rasmusson *English, John H Yoder, Lesslie Newbigin, church, culture, kultur, kyrka, samhälle, society 0 comments
Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen, The Distinctive Identity of the Church

 The task that lies before the church in the Western world is to recapture a profound understanding of its own distinctive identity ... Mission must determine the life of the church in the world.

Church as a Politics of Friendship

2 Mar 2015 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, church, friendship, virtue 0 comments
The Trinity, Andrei Rublev

This thesis studies how two contemporary theologians – the German reformed systematic theologian Jürgen Moltmann and the American catholic moral theologian Paul Wadell – relate and contribute to the broad Christian tradition of friendship when it comes to friendship theology in general and friendship and church in particular.

William Cavanaugh on Theopolitical Imagination

1 Mar 2015 Bengt Rasmusson *English, William Cavanaugh, civilsamhälle, kyrka-stat, post-secular, postsekulär, samhälle 0 comments
William Cavanaugh, Theopolitical Imagination

Is a theologically informed vision of politics, a vision that can help the church to break out of its captivity to myths of modernity, possible? The Catholic and Radical Orthodoxy theologian William Cavanaugh believes so.

John Milbank and the Deconstruction of the Secular

1 Mar 2015 Bengt Rasmusson *English, John Milbank, post-secular, postsekulär 0 comments
John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory

Even if not quite an Barthian bombshell, John Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason did really chock its audience when it first appeared more than one and half decade ago.

Jacques Ellul, 6 januari 1912 - 19 maj 1994

19 May 2014 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, Jacques Ellul 0 comments
Jacques Ellul

"Det största problemet för en kristen idag är inte att veta hur han ska handla. ... Det som betyder något är att leva, inte handla."

Logga: Inmedit

Some friends sharing thoughts and reflections concerning Christian theology, and therefore also about such things as history, society, and culture.

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Det finns ingen väg till fred på säkerhetens väg

21 Sep 2023 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, fredsarbete 0 comments
Fanö 2023

"Fred måste vågas, den är en stor risk och kan aldrig säkras. Fred är motsatsen till säkerhet."

Church as a Politics of Friendship

2 Mar 2015 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, church, friendship, virtue 0 comments
The Trinity, Andrei Rublev

This thesis studies how two contemporary theologians – the German reformed systematic theologian Jürgen Moltmann and the American catholic moral theologian Paul Wadell – relate and contribute to the broad Christian tradition of friendship when it comes to friendship theology in general and friendship and church in particular.

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Ett fulltonigt evangelium

14 Aug 2021 Roland Spjuth *svenska, ekumenik, frikyrka 0 comments
Ett fulltonigt evangelium

Genom att lära sig av varandra erhålles därför en större bredd och en helhetsförståelse av den kristna spiritualiteten.

Radical Orthodoxy on Catholicism, Protestantism and Liberalism/Liberality

13 Feb 2020 Bengt Rasmusson *English, Radical Ortodoxy, liberalism, political theology, politics, quantitative methods 0 comments
The Politics of Virtue

Arne Rasmusson on the use of historical narratives and quantitative methods in political theology, with special reference to Radical Orthodoxy, catholicism, protestantism, and liberalism/liberality.

Jesus Christ, Religious Pluralism and the Oneness of God

13 Mar 2019 Arne Rasmusson *English, kristologi 0 comments
Jesus Christ in stained glass

A strongly Christological Trinitarianism dominated much of twentieth-century theology. In current academic theology, however, there is more talk about God and religion than about Jesus Christ as such.

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Kalle Carlstein

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Arne Rasmusson

Bengt Rasmusson

Roland Spjuth

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