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Ekstrand, Thomas, Docent
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Jonbäck, F. & Ekstrand, T. (2023). Existential suffering and hopeful theodicy in Esaias Tegner's Spleen. Studia Theologica, 77(1), 62-76
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Existential suffering and hopeful theodicy in Esaias Tegner's Spleen
2023 (English)In: Studia Theologica, ISSN 0039-338X, E-ISSN 1502-7791, Vol. 77, no 1, p. 62-76Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Poetry can contribute to theological and philosophical reflection. In this paper, we concentrate our attention on Esaias Tegner's poignant depiction of melancholy, or what we call "existential suffering" in his poem Spleen. We argue the poem can be interpreted as showing that the distinction between theoretical and existential problems of suffering is less clear-cut than often presupposed and that theorizing about the meaning of suffering can have a role to play even when people are experiencing great existential suffering and despair. Based on the speaker's existential struggles in Spleen, we also formulate the novel concept of a hopeful theodicy, a concept we think can be of use more broadly in future research on problems of suffering and theodicy.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023
National Category
Religious Studies Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-510968 (URN)10.1080/0039338X.2022.2155243 (DOI)000906656300001 ()
Funder
Swedish Research Council
Available from: 2023-09-06 Created: 2023-09-06 Last updated: 2023-09-06Bibliographically approved
Ekstrand, T. (2023). "Vredens stora dag är nära"?: Himlen, helvetet och det eviga livet. In: Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg; Lovisa Nyman (Ed.), Tro, hopp och strävan: Gudsriket som tröst och motiv för handling (pp. 56-82). Stockholm: Verbum Forlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"Vredens stora dag är nära"?: Himlen, helvetet och det eviga livet
2023 (Swedish)In: Tro, hopp och strävan: Gudsriket som tröst och motiv för handling / [ed] Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg; Lovisa Nyman, Stockholm: Verbum Forlag, 2023, p. 56-82Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Verbum Forlag, 2023
Series
Svenska kyrkans forskningsserie, ISSN 2003-6264 ; 50
Keywords
Eskatologi, individualeskatologi, dubbel utgång, universalism, himmel, helvete, kristendom
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Systematic Theology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-496631 (URN)978-91-526-3939-9 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-02-16 Created: 2023-02-16 Last updated: 2024-12-04Bibliographically approved
Jonbäck, F. & Ekstrand, T. (2022). Existentiella problem med lidande (1ed.). In: Francis Jonbäck, Lina Langby, Oliver Li (Ed.), Vidgade perspektiv på lidandets problem: . Dialogos Förlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Existentiella problem med lidande
2022 (Swedish)In: Vidgade perspektiv på lidandets problem / [ed] Francis Jonbäck, Lina Langby, Oliver Li, Dialogos Förlag, 2022, 1Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Dialogos Förlag, 2022 Edition: 1
National Category
Religious Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-492101 (URN)978-91-7504-399-9 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 201801050
Available from: 2023-01-02 Created: 2023-01-02 Last updated: 2023-06-01Bibliographically approved
Ekstrand, T. (2018). Att tänka med det förflutna. In: Stenmark, Mikael; Zackariasson, Ulf; Johannesson, Karin & Jonbäck, Francis (Ed.), Filosofiska metoder i praktiken: (pp. 85-101). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att tänka med det förflutna
2018 (Swedish)In: Filosofiska metoder i praktiken / [ed] Stenmark, Mikael; Zackariasson, Ulf; Johannesson, Karin & Jonbäck, Francis, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018, p. 85-101Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018
Series
Uppsala Studies in Philosophy of Religion ; 5
Keywords
Filosofihistoria, teologihistoria
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews; Philosophy of Religion
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-356761 (URN)978-91-513-0364-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-08-06 Created: 2018-08-06 Last updated: 2018-09-13Bibliographically approved
Ekstrand, T. (2018). Christ, Grace and Community. In: Ville Paivänsalo & Pamela Slotte (Ed.), Matters of Faith and Love: Nordic Perspectives on Transforming Social and Theological Challenges. Helsingfors: Luther-Agricola Society
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Christ, Grace and Community
2018 (English)In: Matters of Faith and Love: Nordic Perspectives on Transforming Social and Theological Challenges / [ed] Ville Paivänsalo & Pamela Slotte, Helsingfors: Luther-Agricola Society , 2018Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The disestablishment of the Church of Sweden in the year 2000 has been a catalyst for an intensified debate on the identity of the Church of Sweden and the ecclesiological heritage from one of its most important theologians of the 20th century, Einar Billing (1871–1939). This paper discusses the contemporary critique of Billing’s folk church ecclesiology. Critics tend to focus on Billing’s understanding of the church as an institution for the distribution of grace and point out that his thinking lacks a theological understanding of the church as a social reality. In a secular welfare society, describing the church as an institution might reduce the church to an actor of the welfare market. In this paper it is argued that while an ecclesiology that understands the church as a service provider is problematic, the best alternative is not to forward an ecclesiology focussing on the community of believers as a social body, since it makes the authenticity of the church dependent on the qualities of a social community. From a Lutheran point of view, both perspectives do not take the idea of the church as the creatura verbi seriously enough. The major problem with contemporary folk church ecclesiology is rather to be found in the inherent hegemonic claims of the concept folk church.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Helsingfors: Luther-Agricola Society, 2018
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-377145 (URN)978-952-7259-09-2 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-02-14 Created: 2019-02-14 Last updated: 2019-09-11Bibliographically approved
Ekstrand, T. (2018). Kommentar till CA Art. 1-4 (2ed.). In: Kjell O. Lejon; Torbjörn Larspers; Tomas Nygren (Ed.), Augsburgska bekännelsen: nyöversatt och kommenterad av Rune Söderlund. (pp. 175-195). Uppsala: EFS Budbäraren
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kommentar till CA Art. 1-4
2018 (Swedish)In: Augsburgska bekännelsen: nyöversatt och kommenterad av Rune Söderlund. / [ed] Kjell O. Lejon; Torbjörn Larspers; Tomas Nygren, Uppsala: EFS Budbäraren , 2018, 2, p. 175-195Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: EFS Budbäraren, 2018 Edition: 2
Series
Acta Johannelundensia ; 1b
Keywords
Augsburgska bekännelsen, kristologi, arvsynd, rättfärdiggörelse, treenighetslära
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-369315 (URN)978-91-984337-3-9 (ISBN)
Note

Texten utgör en kommentar till de första fyra artiklarna i den Augsburgska bekännelsen.

Available from: 2018-12-12 Created: 2018-12-12 Last updated: 2019-04-05Bibliographically approved
Ekstrand, T. (2018). Teodicéproblemet och Guds fördoldhet. In: Erik Blennberger; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Anders Jeffner (Ed.), Gudstro: Existentiella och intellektuella perspektiv (pp. 185-198). Stockholm: Verbum
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Teodicéproblemet och Guds fördoldhet
2018 (Swedish)In: Gudstro: Existentiella och intellektuella perspektiv / [ed] Erik Blennberger; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Anders Jeffner, Stockholm: Verbum , 2018, p. 185-198Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Verbum, 2018
Keywords
teodicéproblemet, Luther, deus absconditus
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-351308 (URN)978-91-526-3748-7 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-05-22 Created: 2018-05-22 Last updated: 2018-09-19Bibliographically approved
Ekstrand, T. (2015). Den gudomliga historien: Profetism, messianism och andens utveckling. [Review]. Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, 91(4), 184-185
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Den gudomliga historien: Profetism, messianism och andens utveckling.
2015 (Swedish)In: Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, ISSN 0039-6761, Vol. 91, no 4, p. 184-185Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Abstract [sv]

Recension av Svenungson, Jayne: Den gudomliga historien - profetism, messianism och andens utveckling. Göteborg: Glänta produktion, 2014.

National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-287236 (URN)
Available from: 2016-04-22 Created: 2016-04-22 Last updated: 2017-11-30
Ekstrand, T. (2013). Kyrkohandboksförslaget och de kyrkliga handlingarna. Svensk kyrkotidning, 109(2), 27-30
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kyrkohandboksförslaget och de kyrkliga handlingarna
2013 (Swedish)In: Svensk kyrkotidning, ISSN 0346-2153, Vol. 109, no 2, p. 27-30Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Svensk kyrkotidning AB, 2013
Keywords
Kyrkohandbok, kyrkliga handlingar, handboksförslag
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Ecclesiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-192409 (URN)
Available from: 2013-01-20 Created: 2013-01-20 Last updated: 2017-12-06Bibliographically approved
Ekstrand, T. (2012). Förslag till ny kyrkohandbok. Svensk kyrkotidning, 108(19), 353-356
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Förslag till ny kyrkohandbok
2012 (Swedish)In: Svensk kyrkotidning, ISSN 0346-2153, Vol. 108, no 19, p. 353-356Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Keywords
Kyrkohandbok, handbok, gudstjänstordning, gudstjänst
National Category
Religious Studies
Research subject
Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-181155 (URN)
Note

Artikeln är en diskussions- och debattartikel om förslaget till ny kyrkohandbok för Svenska kyrkan.

Available from: 2012-09-17 Created: 2012-09-17 Last updated: 2017-12-07Bibliographically approved
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