Jeff Cayzer
My studies have been in Switzerland, Germany, and Australia, with degrees initially in French and German language and literature and in theology. Postgraduate emphases were: firstly, a Thesis in French on Calvin’s response to an aspect of the Radical Reformation, then later on the ending of the Book of Acts. Both these studies could be summarized as fitting in with a long-standing interest in hermeneutics. I have translated and edited a number of German works: firstly, the final monograph in systematic theology by Eberhard Jüngel. This was followed by an edited translation of a book of essays on ethics by Oswald Bayer, and a further contribution to the history of biblical studies in works by Hugo Gressmann, Albert Eichhorn and Johannes Weiss. All this led in turn to an interest in the history of German scholarship in the areas of philosophy, especially as it interrelates with theology; in ethics and in philosophical theology.
Other areas of ancient history, aesthetics and architecture also intersect with those aspects already mentioned.
I continue reading the literatures of various languages. Recently, I have also been teaching in the history of ethics and on aspects of French and German history, literature and thought. I have maintained an early passion for the Franco-Belgian bande dessinée as an art form. In addition to teaching, I have practised as a translator (French, German) and interpreter (French).
Other areas of ancient history, aesthetics and architecture also intersect with those aspects already mentioned.
I continue reading the literatures of various languages. Recently, I have also been teaching in the history of ethics and on aspects of French and German history, literature and thought. I have maintained an early passion for the Franco-Belgian bande dessinée as an art form. In addition to teaching, I have practised as a translator (French, German) and interpreter (French).
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The presence within European Protestantism of a tradition of discussing systematic questions with a focus on the writings of Luther hardly needs explanation. It is as much a matter of course as a tradition organizing its questions around the writings of Thomas Aquinas. But the English-speaking reader whose expectations have been formed by earlier generations of Lutheran theology is likely to be surprised, on encountering Oswald Bayer’s writing, at the flexibility and capacity for innovation that the tradition still displays. Bayer is eager and well equipped for engagement with contemporary social philosophy. He articulates a distinctive and discriminating line of modernity-critique, drawn from the heart of the Enlightenment period itself by his rediscovery—itself an eye-opening event in intel- lectual history—of Johann Georg Hamann, Kant’s correspondent and critic and an earlier reader of Luther. The ‘speech-communicative’ understanding of the constitution of reality, developed since his earliest work on ‘promise’, places him not a thousand miles from the linguistic turn in English theology. All of which indicates a vital, active pursuit of the questions that engage British and American theolo- gians, but drawing on important and otherwise overlooked sources and
strategies.
Book Reviews by Jeff Cayzer
Papers by Jeff Cayzer
The presence within European Protestantism of a tradition of discussing systematic questions with a focus on the writings of Luther hardly needs explanation. It is as much a matter of course as a tradition organizing its questions around the writings of Thomas Aquinas. But the English-speaking reader whose expectations have been formed by earlier generations of Lutheran theology is likely to be surprised, on encountering Oswald Bayer’s writing, at the flexibility and capacity for innovation that the tradition still displays. Bayer is eager and well equipped for engagement with contemporary social philosophy. He articulates a distinctive and discriminating line of modernity-critique, drawn from the heart of the Enlightenment period itself by his rediscovery—itself an eye-opening event in intel- lectual history—of Johann Georg Hamann, Kant’s correspondent and critic and an earlier reader of Luther. The ‘speech-communicative’ understanding of the constitution of reality, developed since his earliest work on ‘promise’, places him not a thousand miles from the linguistic turn in English theology. All of which indicates a vital, active pursuit of the questions that engage British and American theolo- gians, but drawing on important and otherwise overlooked sources and
strategies.