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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Nygren Corpus: Annotations to the Major Works of Anders Nygren of Lund
Contributor:
Hall, Thor
imprint:
American Academy of Religion, 1979
Published in:Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Language:
English
ISSN:
0002-7189;
1477-4585
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>The published works of Anders Nygren -for 50 years or more one of Europe's leading theologians and undoubtedly Scandinavia's best known theologian in the twentieth century-form an impressive literary corpus of some 370 items. Among them are some seventeen monographs and collections of essays published in book form, representing the core of Nygren's works, and therefore indispensable to the analysis of his thought. Many of these works are unavailable except in the Swedish language, and most are now out of print as well. The purpose of the present essay is to provide a quick overview of these seventeen books, with annotations designed to help the reader orient himself to the major contributions in Nygren's works and the leading ideas in Nygren's thought. The approach is reportorial rather than analytical or critical. No attempt is made to enter into the debate among Nygren's interpreters, and only in one or two instances do we relate to the secondary literature, now increasing both in volume and quality. The essay is organized around the following four periods in Nygren's career: the early period, marked by extensive philosophical and methodological endeavors; the period of mature theological scholarship, marked by historical-critical "motif research" and biblical theology; the period of his episcopacy, marked by a turn toward more churchly theological concerns; and his retirement, marked by a return to philosophical and methodological interests.</p>