Polydox Eschatology: Relating Systematic and Everyday Theology in a Cancer Context
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Polydox Eschatology : Relating Systematic and Everyday Theology in a Cancer Context. / Johannessen-Henry, Christine Tind.
I: Studia Theologica, Bind 66, Nr. 2, 2012, s. 107-129.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Polydox Eschatology
T2 - Relating Systematic and Everyday Theology in a Cancer Context
AU - Johannessen-Henry, Christine Tind
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Individuals who have lived through a serious disease like cancer often have a variety of ideas about life after death. These “polydox” eschatologies often seem far from systematic theology. On the basis of quantitative and qualitative data collected among Danish cancer survivors, this article proposes a positive theological description of the relation between two different repertoires of theological practice: systematic theology (an academic, normative practice) and everyday theology (an individual, lived practice). I argue that everyday theology may contribute to expand the systematic theological understanding of eschatology. In the eschatological practice among cancer survivors, the issue of place appears central, thus complementing the focus on time in traditional systematic theology. I conclude that taking the polydoxy of everyday life into systematic-theological consideration does not debase the matrix of the Christian tradition, but allows different theological interpretations thereof to appear
AB - Individuals who have lived through a serious disease like cancer often have a variety of ideas about life after death. These “polydox” eschatologies often seem far from systematic theology. On the basis of quantitative and qualitative data collected among Danish cancer survivors, this article proposes a positive theological description of the relation between two different repertoires of theological practice: systematic theology (an academic, normative practice) and everyday theology (an individual, lived practice). I argue that everyday theology may contribute to expand the systematic theological understanding of eschatology. In the eschatological practice among cancer survivors, the issue of place appears central, thus complementing the focus on time in traditional systematic theology. I conclude that taking the polydoxy of everyday life into systematic-theological consideration does not debase the matrix of the Christian tradition, but allows different theological interpretations thereof to appear
KW - Faculty of Theology
KW - eskatologi
KW - kræft
KW - dogmatik
KW - kristendom
M3 - Journal article
VL - 66
SP - 107
EP - 129
JO - Studia Theologica
JF - Studia Theologica
SN - 0039-338X
IS - 2
ER -
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