Knut Alvsvåg - Bibelen uten filter. Tilbake til en førmoderne lesning av Bibelen.

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Knut Alvsvåg questions whether it's possible to read the Bible without the filters of our modern worldview.

["The lecture, titled 'Bibelen uten filter. Tilbake til en f\u00f8rmoderne lesning av Bibelen,' questions whether reading the Bible without filters is possible.", "Knut Alvsv\u00e5g clarifies the goal is not to remove all conditions but to test our modern premises against the Bible's own.", "He identifies the disruptive filter as modernity, beginning with the Enlightenment in the 18th century.", "Alvsv\u00e5g states we cannot simply adopt a pre-modern worldview because we are modern people with accumulated knowledge.", "The core pre-modern premise is faith in God as Creator, who is always present and active in everything.", "He cites Acts 17:28 and 1 Corinthians 12 to support God's immanence.", "This belief means the world is meaningful and communicates God's message.", "Alvsv\u00e5g notes this creator faith was society's foundation in Europe through the Middle Ages until the 18th century.", "He details Norway's secularization through legal changes: the 1736 Confirmation Law, 1845 church monopoly break, 1911 voluntary confirmation, 1970s abolition of compulsory Christian education, 1975 abortion law, and 2009 same-sex marriage.", "These changes moved faith from public foundation to private sphere.", "Alvsv\u00e5g argues the biblical creator faith is not a conclusion from reasoning but a given premise.", "Modernity, starting in the 14th century via the 'via moderna,' demanded justification for all claims, making human reason the center.", "This led to interpreting the world as a machine describable by mathematical laws.", "In this model, only quantifiable aspects matter, and individual events lose existential meaning.", "Alvsv\u00e5g claims this mechanistic view reduces God to a distant watchmaker.", "Modern Bible reading thus treats the Bible as historical source or confirmation of timeless truths, not as existentially decisive.", "He critiques Protestant theological adaptations (Schleiermacher, Ritschel, Bultmann) as projecting modern human-centered ideals onto the text.", "Alvsv\u00e5g suggests postmodernity allows a critical view of modernity's rationality, though human-centeredness persists.", "He posits two undeniable traits: the world exists and gives meaning, which the Bible interprets as God's creation and human imaging of God.", "Denying creator faith is irrational, exemplified by modern struggles with biological sex realities.", "True Bible reading accepts God's self-revelation as Creator present in all events.", "Alvsv\u00e5g concludes by highlighting Lutheran theology, especially its view of God's presence in the Eucharist, as a place where creation-based Bible reading is clear.", "He references Luther's critique of Zwingli's spiritualization as an early form of modern deism."]

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