Religion without fear: Plutarch on superstition and early Christian literature

dc.contributor.authorKlauck, H-J.
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dc.date.issued1997
dc.descriptionContinued 2001 as 'Verbum et Ecclesia'en_US
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dc.description.abstractAfter some introductory remarks on the role of fear in religious discourse and on the vocabulary, Plutarch's treatise On Superstition is analysed according to its rhetorical outline. Questions of authenticity are discussed and answered by locating The essay in Plutarch's early career. Then we ask for the place of ''fear of God" in biblical teaching and theology, compare it to Plutarch and show some limits in Plutarch's youthful thinking, which doesn't yet pay due respect to the life values of myth. We conclude with two New Testament passages, Romans 8:15, masterfully interpreted by Martin Luther, and 1 John 4:17f, excellently explained by 20th century's Swiss theologian and psychologian Oskar Pfister, and we show that these texts are propagating "belief without fear".en
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dc.format.extent16 pagesen_US
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dc.identifier.citationKlauck, H-J 1997, 'Religion without fear: Plutarch on superstition and early Christian literature', Skrif en Kerk, vol. 18, no.1, pp 111-126.en
dc.identifier.issn0257-8891 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2074-7705 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/20865
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFaculty of Theology, University of Pretoriaen
dc.rightsFaculty of Theology, University of Pretoriaen
dc.subjectPlutarchen
dc.subject.lcshLuther, Martin, 1483-1546en
dc.subject.lcshSuperstitionen
dc.subject.lcshPlutarchen
dc.titleReligion without fear: Plutarch on superstition and early Christian literatureen
dc.typeArticleen

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