Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation

Judith Frishman occupies the Chair of Jewish Studies at the Catholic Theological University at Utrecht as well as the Special Chair for the History of Jewish-Christian relations of the Theological Faculty at Leiden University. She has published on various subjects including Christian exegesis and modern Jewish history. Her main focus of interest is the emancipation period in a comparative perspective.
Willemien Otten holds the Chair in History of Christianity at Utrecht University. Her area of expertise is Early and Medieval Church History. She has published, among others, on Tertullian, Augustine, Eriugena and Peter Abelard.
Gerard Rouwhorst is Professor in the History of Liturgy in the Catholic Theological University at Utrecht. The subject of his doctoral dissertation were the Paschal Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian (Les hymnes pascales d'Ephrem de Nisibe, Brill, 1989). He has published numerous articles, mainly on early Christian liturgy.

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Willemien Otten and Theo Salemink - Prologue: Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation
2. Charles Hallisey - The Surprise of Scripture’s Advice
PART I: IDENTITY AND MODERNITY
A. Catholicism
3. Urs Altermatt - The Ambivalence of Catholic Modernisation
4. Staf Hellemans - How Modern is Religion in Modernity?
5. Anton Houtepen - Modernity and the Crisis of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century. The Case of Papal Infallibility
6. Theo Clemens - A Textbook for Theological Formation from Mechelen. Its Importance for the Identity of the Roman Catholic Clergy in the Netherlands
B. Protestantism
7. Frits Broeyer - Reformed Notions of Identity: The Dutch Reformed Church Between 1829 and 1869
8. David Bos - University Education as a Mark of Ministerial Identity in Nineteenth Century Dutch Protestantism
9. Jan Jongeneel - Mission in a Globalizing World: Christ, Christianity and the Remaking World Order
C. Judaism
10. Judith Frishman - True Mosaic Religion. Samuel Hirsch, Samuel Holdhiem and the Reform of Judaism
11. Els Kooij-Bas - The Brunswick Rabbinical Conference and Anti-Reform Response on the Questions of Authority
12. Theo Salemink - Modernity as Neo-Paganism. A Catholic Answer to Liberalism, Socialism and National Socialism
PART II; SOURCES OF AUTHORITY FROM EARLY CHRISTIAN TO POSTMODERN TIMES
A. The Early Church
13. Jaap van Amersfoort - Pagan Sources in the Pseudo-Clementine Novel
14. Johannes van Oort - The Emergence of Gnostic-Manichaean Christianity as a Case of Religious Identity in the Making
B. The Middle Ages
15. Karla Pollmann - Re-Appropriation and Disavowal: Pagan and Christian Authorities in Cassiodorus and Venantius Fortunatus
16. Gerard Pieter Freeman - St.Francis - God’s Authority and the Pope’s Approval
17. Daniela Müller - Heretical Religious Women and the Authority of Traditional Sources
18. Willemien Otten - Authority and Identity in the Transition from Monastic to Scholastic Theology: Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
19. Marcia Colish - Authority and Interpretation in Scholastic Theology
20. Jan Hallebeek - The Roman Pontiff as Direct Judge of Appeal and the Identity of the Latin Church
C. From Reformation to Postmodernity
21. Eugène Honée - Die Autorität von Schrift und Tradition in den Religionsverhandlungen des Augsburger Reichstages vom Jahre 1530. (With an
English Summary)
22. Paul van Geest - Transformation in Order and Desire. Thomas a Kempis’ Indebtedness to St. Augustine
23. Willem van Asselt - Scholaticism Protestant and Catholic: Medieval Sources and Methods in Seventeenth Reformed Thought
24. Marcel Poorthuis - The Improperia on Trial. On a Recent Debate in the Netherlands between Jews, Protestants and Roman-Catholics
25. Gerard Rouwhorst - Historical Periods as Normative Sources. The Appeal to the Past in the Research on Liturgical History
26. Peter van Rooden - Power and Piety in Contemporary Church History and Social Science
D. Christian Origins: A Continuing Debate
27. Frances Young - Books and Their 'Aura’: the Functions of Written Texts in Judaism, Paganism and Christianity during the First Centuries CE
28. Elizabeth Clark - Creating Foundations, Creating Authorities: Reading Practices and Christian Identities