Religious identity and the problem of historical foundation : the foundational character of authoritative sources in the history of Christianity and Judaism / edited by Judith Frishman, Willemien Otten, and Gerard Rouwhorst.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious identity and the problem of historical foundation : the foundational character of authoritative texts and traditions in the history of Christianity / Willemien Otten and Theo Salemink -- The surprise of scripture's advice / Charles Hallisey -- The ambivalence of Catholic modernisation / Urs Altermatt -- How modern is religion in modernity? / Staf Hellemans -- Modernity and the crisis of spiritual authority in the nineteenth century : the case of Papal infallibility / Anton Houtepen -- A textbook for theological formation from Mechelen : its importance for the identity of the Roman Catholic clergy in the Netherlands / Theo Clemens -- Reformed notions of identity : the Dutch Reformed Church between 1829 and 1869 / Frits Broeyer -- University education as a mark of ministerial identity in nineteenth century Dutch Protestantism / David Bos -- Mission in a globalizing world : Christ, Christianity and the remaking of world order / Jan Jongeneel -- True Mosaic religion : Samuel Hirsch, Samuel Holdheim and the reform of Judaism / Judith Frishman -- The Brunswick rabbinical conference and anti-reform response on the question of authority / Els Kooij-Bas -- Modernity as neo-paganism : a Catholic answer to liberalism, socialism and National Socialism / Theo Salemink -- Pagan sources in the Pseudo-Clementine novel / Jaap van Amersfoort -- The emergence of Gnostic-Manichaean Christianity as a case of religious identity in the making / Johannes van Oort --

Re-appropriation and disavowal : pagan and Christian authorities in Cassiodorus and Venatius Fortunatus / Karla Pollmann -- St. Francis, God's authority and the Pope's approval / Gerard Pieter Freeman -- Heretical religious women and the authority of traditional sources / Daniela Müller -- Authority and identity in the transition from monastic to scholastic theology : Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux / Willemien Otten -- Authority and interpretation in scholastic theology / Marcia Colish -- The Roman pontiff as direct judge of appeal and the identity of the Latin church / Jan Hallebeek -- Die Autorität von Schrift und Tradition in den Religionsverhandlungen des Augsburger Reichstages vom Jahre 1530 (with an English summary) / Eugène Honée -- Transformation in order and desire : Thomas a Kempis' indebtedness to St. Augustine / Paul van Geest -- Scholasticism Protestant and Catholic : medieval sources and methods in seventeenth century Reformed thought / Willem van Asselt -- The Improperia on trial : on a recent debate in the Netherlands between Jews, Protestants and Roman-Catholics / Marcel Poorthuis -- Historical periods as normative sources : the appeal to the past in the research on liturgical history / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Power and piety in contemporary church history and social science / Peter van Rooden -- Books and their "aura" : the functions of written texts in Judaism, paganism and Christianity during the first centuries CE / Frances Young -- Creating foundations, creating authorities : reading practices and Christian identities / Elizabeth Clark.