https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt <p><span class="First">D</span>anmarks førende fagteologiske tidsskrift. Udgives af Forlaget eksistensen i samarbejde med Det Teologiske Fakultet i København og Afdeling for Teologi på Aarhus Universitet.</p> <p>Tidsskriftet modtog til og med årgang 2021 støtte fra Det Frie Forskningsråd.</p> <p>Årgang 2023 støttes af FOF og Tænketanken Prospekt.</p> <p> </p> Eksistensen Akademisk da-DK Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 0105-3191 https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/156157 Kasper Bro Larsen Copyright (c) 2025 Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2025-03-20 2025-03-20 88 1 1 2 10.7146/dtt.v88i1.156157 https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/156159 <p>Paul’s interpretation of Genesis 2-3 as a story about Adam’s “fall” and the universal origins of sin and death (Romans 5:12) has had an immense impact on Christian theology. Even though biblical researchers have long recognized that this interpretation is by no means self-evident in the Old Testament text, some have continued even in recent years to read Genesis 2-3 through the lens of Romans 5. In this article, I examine both the interpretational traditions that led Paul to his reading of Genesis 2-3 and those that tend to inspire contemporary academic interpretations of the same text. I conclude with my own reading of the Garden of Eden story as an etiology for why human lives in ancient Syria-Palestine tended to be short and full of hardship, discussing how the narrative functions as a fitting introduction to the Pentateuch. The purpose is not to argue for one “correct” understanding of Genesis 2-3, but to demonstrate how different motivations underlie different interpretations—and that it is important to be explicit about what those motivations are.</p> Rosanne Liebermann Copyright (c) 2025 Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2025-03-20 2025-03-20 88 1 3 22 10.7146/dtt.v88i1.156159 https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/156160 <p class="Abstract"><span lang="EN-GB">This article, “The Apostle Paul: A Jewish Integrationist Thinker and Practitioner,” examines Paul’s acculturation strategy of integration (“togetherness in diversity”) in comparison with competing strategies within the early Christ movement, for example the assimilation model (“togetherness in similarity”) represented by Paul’s various opponents in Galatians and Romans, and the segregation model (“separateness in diversity”) endorsed by the Apostolic Council. Contrary to prevailing views in contemporary scholarship, the study argues that some of Paul’s Christ groups, including the Corinthian one, were interethnic, consisting of both Gentile and Jewish members. Paul regarded this diversity as a foreshadowing of the imminent, eschatological events: the Messiah’s return to unite Jews and Gentiles before the God of Israel. This gospel of interethnic integration emerges consistently throughout Paul’s letters. However, the ultimate success of his Gentile mission contributed to a growing Gentile-dominated trajectory within the Christ movement, which led it in a more segregationist direction over time.</span></p> Kasper Bro Larsen Copyright (c) 2025 Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2025-03-20 2025-03-20 88 1 23 46 10.7146/dtt.v88i1.156160 https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/156161 <p>“The righteous will live by faith.” With this quote from Hab. 2:4, Paul concludes his summary of the gospel in Romans 1:17. To Paul, living by faith means trusting God’s promise of salvation and faithfully following his commandments, which express the norms of the community. In this article, I analyse Paul’s vision of a universal, trust-based community and its influence on Luther’s theology which underlines trust as the hallmark of a sound community – with God and fellow human beings. Meditating on Romans 1:17, Luther realised that rather than being a vindictive judge, God is a loving giver who initiates a mutually obliging trust relation with humans through his self-giving in Christ. Nuancing 20th century Lutheran theology’s one-eyed focus on individual righteousness, I claim that this reformatory discovery entails a new understanding of community as built around trust in God and God-given authority rather than punishment and reward. Moreover, I argue for the potential impact of this Pauline-Lutheran trust-centered notion of community on the historic development of a Danish trust culture, pointing to Grundtvig and Løgstrup as two influential Lutheran theologians who promote trust as a defining characteristic of Danish society.</p> Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa Copyright (c) 2025 Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2025-03-20 2025-03-20 88 1 47 75 10.7146/dtt.v88i1.156161 https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/156162 <p>This study examines Paul’s concept of the will through Hannah Arendt’s phenomenological perspective. In The Life of the Mind, Arendt identifies Paul not only as a founder of Christianity but as the first to articulate volition as an experience. She considers volition as the most reflective of the mind’s three faculties: thinking, willing, and judging, which together constitute the life of the mind. Arendt suggests that the mind’s reflexivity is less about self-orientation and more about being directed toward the “web” of human relationships, forming the “subjective in-between” (Arendt 1958, 183) that binds us together, even in solitude. Just as with the world of things, the presence of others influences thinking, willing, and judging, which sustains our moral imagination and reminds us of our shared existence. Drawing on Augustine’s concept of natality and Paul’s idea of volition, Arendt proposes that the will transcends the moral choice between good and evil, providing freedom in the form of spontaneous action. This freedom is realized most fully in acts of forgiveness and in the process of understanding, which is essential to reconciliation.</p> Anne Marie Pahuus Copyright (c) 2025 Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2025-03-20 2025-03-20 88 1 76 95 10.7146/dtt.v88i1.156162 https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/156163 René Falkenberg Copyright (c) 2025 Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2025-03-20 2025-03-20 88 1 96 98 10.7146/dtt.v88i1.156163 https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/156164 Troels Engberg-Pedersen Copyright (c) 2025 Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2025-03-20 2025-03-20 88 1 99 100 10.7146/dtt.v88i1.156164 https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/156165 Mads Peter Karlsen Copyright (c) 2025 Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2025-03-20 2025-03-20 88 1 101 104 10.7146/dtt.v88i1.156165