Grundtvig in International Perspective

by Allchin, A. M.; Bradley, S. A. J.; Hjelm, Norman A.; Schjorring, J. H.

• ISBN13: 9788772888354
• ISBN10: 8772888350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Summary

People across the English-speaking world are often surprised to hear that 19th-century Denmark produced not one, but two figures of international significance in the field of religious thought and life, Soren Kierkegaard and N.F.S. Grundtvig. Apart from the impact of his educational ideas on some parts of the southern hemisphere, most notably India, Grundtvig's viewpoint on human nature and human society, on the relationship between national and international community, on the inner dynamic which sustains and drives forward the Christian tradition, remains remarkably little known outside his own country. In recent years, however, this situation has begun to change. Grundtvig's thought is being more widely studied and discussed in an international perspective. This varied collection of essays, mostly European and North American, illustrates this development. It suggests that in N.F.S. Grundtvig we have a 19th-century thinker with unexpected relevance to the dilemmas of the new century.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and Frequently Quoted Books	ix
Preface	1	(4)
Introduction	5	(22)
A.M. Allchin
Theology and Creation: Joseph Sittler and N.F.S. Grundtvig	27	(18)
Philip Hefner
Generous Orthodoxy: Regin Prenter's Appropriation of Grundtvig	45	(14)
Michael Root
Danish Grundtvigians in the United States: Challenges Past and Present	59	(16)
Axel C. Kildegaard
Grundtving Within the Ecclesiological Revival of 19th-Century Europe	75	(12)
R. William Franklin
``The Noble Tribe of Truth'' Etchings on Myth, Language, and Truth Speaking	87	(16)
Vitor Westhelle
Old Europe and its Aftermath: Poetry, Doctrine, and Western Culture	103	(12)
Jakob Balling
Grundtvig's View of the Bible	115	(20)
Christian Thodberg
The Holy Spirit in the Teaching of N.F.S. Grundtvig	135	(12)
A.M. Allchin
``A Truly Proud Ruin'': Grundtvig and the Anglo-Saxon Legacy	147	(16)
S.A.J. Bradley
Grundtvig's ``Education for Life'' and the Cultural Challenge Facing the Baltic and Nordic Countries Today	163	(10)
Gustav Bjorkstrand
Adult Education in India: Relevance of Grundtvig	173	(12)
Asoke Bhattacharya
Some International Varieties of Grundtvig Inspiration	185	(8)
K.E. Bugge
Education for Life or for Livelihood? Grundtving and the Third World Revisited	193	(14)
Holger Bernt Hansen
List of Authors	207