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»Rød og hvid i Billedsalen«. Grundtvigs døds- og mindedigte II
Authors: Lundgreen-Nielsen Flemming
Published: September 2020

"Red and White in the Picture Gallery” Grundtvig’s memorial poems (II)By Flemming Lundgreen-NielsenIn the second and last part o f the essay three memorial poems from the 1840’s are considered in order o f their publication. “Henrich Steffens” (1845) is Grundtvig’s final appraisal o f his cousin for his role as herald o f Danish romanticism. At the end Grundtvig even suggests Steffens’ grave be moved from Berlin to Sorø Academy, the site o f Grundtvig’s proposed folk highschool, since Steffens may be declared the real father o f the popular enlightenment to come. Grundtvig probably got the idea from the tomb for Thorvaldsen in the court-yard o f the sculptor’s museum in Copenhagen. “Albert Thorvaldsen” (1844, printed 1848) was thus written partly to argue against the official funeral speeches at the state funeral in 1844. Grundtvig categorizes Thorvaldsen as a “ Lysalf” (fairy o f the light), i.e. a pagan with reverence for spirit, but not a Christian believer. “Povel Dons” (1843, printed 1867) describes the sad career o f a broken man whose ambitions far surpassed his talents. With a daring quote from Christ Grundtvig resurrects him to an after-life as faithful helper o f the Danish romantics. It is demonstrated that the close parallels between the Greek myths o f Icaros and Phaeton and Nordic mythology and Lutheran Easter metaphors have produced one o f Grundtvig’s most condensed and successful lyrical texts.In conclusion it is emphasized that Grundtvig’s hallmark as a memorial poet neither concerns details from the private existence nor an appreciation of the works o f the deceased person, but that Grundtvig boldly interprets his or her function in universal and national spiritual history. In his best memorial poems Grundtvig hardly offers Christian consolation, he rather adheres to a semi-pagan reincarnation o f the spirit-formula, as seen in Jens Baggesen’s epic “Thora from Havsgaard” and in Grundtvig’s own interpretations o f the myth about Balder’s Death and Funeral. To Grundtvig the memorial poem is mainly a secular literary genre.
Grundtvigs prædiken den 31. juli 1825
Authors: Grundtvig N. F. S.
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig’s Sermon for July 31st, 1825
Prædikenen 31.7. 1825 og dens hidtil utrykte slutning
Authors: Thaning Kaj
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig’s Sermon for July 31st, 1825 and its unpublished endingBy Kaj ThanningIn his Grundtvig selection Holger Begtrup included the Sermon for July 31st, 1825, in which Grundtvig proclaimed his “unparalleled discovery” for the first time; but the ending to the sermon was missing. During a registration o f the papers it was discovered amongst a number o f drafts for the articles in Th.M. (File 113 L), and it is published here with a brief introduction by Kaj Thaning.In the sermon several themes from his work during the previous week can be traced, and thus in the ending we find his reflections on the possible conflict between the creed and the scriptures.Both discoveries can be seen in the sermon - the matrix o f the Church and the significance o f the apostolic creed, but now they are fused into one.In one o f the drafts in File 97, written after the two discoveries, Grundtvig formulates his case concisely: the questions is, “whether the Church is built on a book or a rock, whether the scriptures derive from the Word, or the Word from the scriptures, whether the Spirit is plucked out o f the air or received in baptism, whether the head lives o ff the heart or the heart o ff the head”.
Adskillelse og vekselvirkning. Om Grundtvigs syn på folkelighed og kristendom
Authors: Jørgensen Theodor
Published: September 2020

Separateness and InteractionGrundtvig’s Ideas on the Character of the People and ChristianityBy Professor Theodor Jørgensen, DD, CopenhagenSeparateness and interaction are central concepts in Grundtvig’s definition of the relationship between the character of the people and Christianity. He makes a sharp distinction between the two to ensure that the relationship between them remains a free one. It is important for Christianity, which does not want to rule but to serve the people. But this sharp distinction does not mean that Grundtvig understands the character of the people as a purely secular quantity. He sees it as spiritual, where spiritual contains the human spirit, the spirit of truth and the Holy Spirit. Regarded in this light the character of the people constitutes the prerequisite for Christianity, because it contains, albeit in broken form, the God-created humanity that is reborn in Christianity. At the deepest level the life-source in the character of the people and in Christianity is the same, i.e. God; or rather, God the Holy Spirit. And the interaction between them is God’s meeting with Himself in His creation. It is important to insist that the interaction works both ways, a fact often forgotten through a one-sided interpretation of Grundtvig’s basic principle: First a Man, then a Christian. The character of every people adds to Christianity a new faceting of its content through the gospel being preached in the native language and becoming concrete in its natural imagery. In return, Christianity adds to the character of every people the living hope in Christ, making it through Him a reborn character. Grundtvig’s view of the relationship between the two corresponds to the relationship nowadays between life-philosophy and faith. Faith receives a concretion from lifephilosophy. On the other hand there are fundamental human values, originally existing free of Christianity, which today are best defended by faith. Here faith acquires a political perspective.
Vilhelm Grundtvig 1866-1950
Authors: Albeck Gustav
Published: September 2020

Vilhelm Grundtvig: In Memoriam. By Gustav Albeck. Vilhelm Grundtvig (1866—1950), formerly Head Librarian at Aarhus, was the son of N. F. S. Grundtvig’s eldest son, the archivist Johan Grundtvig, who while taking part with his father and brother in the meeting of Scandinavian students at Christiania (Oslo) in 1851 met Vilhelmine Stenersen, who later became his wife. She was a daughter of the Norwegian Professor of Theology Stener Stenersen (d. 1835), one of the many leading personalities in Norwegian cultural life who were influenced by N. F. S. Grundtvig. Vilhelm Grundtvig was a philologist and librarian. After being in charge of the Library of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College (1892—1903), he came to the State Library at Aarhus, where he became Head Librarian in 1905. In the 31 years during which he was in charge of this Library, the largest in Denmark outside Copenhagen, its scope was greatly extended to serve a twofold aim: to be the chief centre of the Danish Municipal Libraries, and to be the Library of the University of Aarhus, which was opened in 1928. His work as a writer was chiefly concerned with bibliography and its problems. In addition to this he was interested in philological studies, espedaily with regard to the concepts expressed in language. He contributed to the study of Grundtvig’s writings as co*editor of Grundtvig’s letters from England to his wife (1920). He also brought to light and published the testimonial which the Principal of Aarhus Cathedral School gave N. F. S. Grundtvig to take with him to the Professors at Copenhagen University, and from which it appears that the teachers at the school were fully convinced that Grundtvig possessed powers which would ensure for him “a reputation which will increase as he grows older”. Vilhelm Grundtvig had not his grandfather’s fighting spirit. In his earlier years he found it difficult to understand the greatness of N. F. S. Grundtvig’s life*work; but as time went on he reached a deeper understanding of it; and the foundation of the Grundtvig Society was a great joy to Grundtvig’s grandson. He took part in the direction of the Society and was greatly interested in the plans for a definitive scholarly edition of Grundtvig’s works. To the younger research students of Grundtvig he was an unwearied helper. He will be much missed in the Grundtvig Society, which will always homour his memory.
Spørgsmål uden svar. Bent Christensen: Fra drøm til program, København 1987
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

Questions without answers. Bent Christensen: From dream to program, Copenhagen 1987.Reviewed by William Michelsen
Grundtvig-Selskabets årsberetning 28. oktober 1988.
Authors: Thodberg Christian
Published: September 2020

Report on the Grundtvig Society's companyBy Christian Thodberg
N.F.S. Grundtvig, S.T Coleridge - The Hymnwriter and the Poet
Authors: Jasper David
Published: September 2020

N.F.S. Grundtvig, S.T. ColeridgeSalmedigteren og den poetiske forfatter.Af David JasperI sin sammenligning mellem de to digtere viser David Jasper, at der er oplagte sammenligningspunkter, bl.a. i henseende til det omfattende forfatterskab og bredden af emner og stilformer. Men der er dog også åbenbare forskelle. Således omtaler Jasper, at Grundtvig fra sine tidlige år gennemgik en udvikling med brydnings- og afklaringsperioder, der førte frem mod en stadig tydeligere distance til hans romantiske udgangspunkt; mens Coleridge på sin side forblev inden for en romantisk bestemt horisont.Ligeledes finder David Jasper det afgørende, at Coleridge ikke kunne have skrevet de kirkesalmer, der udgår en s. markant del af Grundtvigs digtning. Det falder endvidere i øjnene, at Coleridge, modsat Grundtvig, ikke gik ind i aktivt politisk arbejde, ligesom han ikke blev ordineret som præst. Derimod var Coleridge gennem mange år aktiv som journalistisk skribent.Det afgørende slægtskab mellem dem beror på deres reaktion mod det 18. århundredes oplysningstradition, hvilket illustreres gennem en detaljeret sammenlignendeanalyse af Coleridges digt 'Kubla Khan'(1798) set i forhold til Grundtvigs udsagn om digterkaldet fra samlingen Saga (1811). Coleridge forener i sit digt en poetisk fantasi- og symbolverden, der har tydelige romantiske isl.t, med en rodfæstethed inden for en jødisk-kristen forståelseshorisont. Digtet handler dybest set om det tabte og genåbnede Paradis.Coleridges digt sammenlignes med Grundtvigs salme ’Kirken den er et gammelt hus’. Mens Coleridge var og blev en digterisk enegænger, ser Jasper i Grundtvigs salme et bevis for, at Grundtvig tænkte og digtede inden for en helhedsforståelse, der var afgørende bestemt af fællesskabet i menighed og kirke.
Digteren og den sandheds ånd. Grundtvigs helligåndsteologi og den engelske romantik
Authors: Wigh-Poulsen Henrik
Published: September 2020

The Poet and the Spirit of Truth. - Grundtvig’s theology of The Holy Spirit and the English RomanticismBy Henrik Wigh-PoulsenLike his English contemporary, the romantic poet William Wordsworth, Grundtvig sees himself as belonging to the elect company of poet-prophets, the gifted and visionary seers, who by means of their imagination, are capable of reading God’s signature in nature.But in spite of this shared romantic trait there is a marked difference between Wordsworth and Grundtvig in their shared predilection for the windmetaphor. Whereas Wordsworth’s inspiring, creative .gentle breeze., according to the literary critic M.H. Abrams, is a distant secularized and naturalized relative to The Holy Spirit, Grundtvig’s .spiritual waft. is the rushing wind of the Pentecost itself. It is this ‘Spirit of Truth’ that descends on nature and in nature bears witness to the paradisal; but also, at the same time, qualifies the poet as a true, Christian poet.As a poet-prophet committed exclusively to The Holy Spirit, Grundtvig becomes a rather isolated figure, vulnerable to his own doubt, whether he, in his poetry, is truly inspired or just the victim of his own private and deceitful imagination. Repeatedly he confronts himself with this doubt, repents, states his unworthiness and finally settles with the conviction, that, in his poetic vocation, he is elected by the Spirit itself.‘The Unparalleled Discovery’, however, seems to cause a growing poetic and prophetic self-confidence in Grundtvig’s writings. His newly gained sense of a real, historical foundation of the church diminishes his desperate sense of isolation and fear of haughtiness and subjectivity, and it enables him to speak louder and more freely in the service of the Spirit. Finally, as the community of Grundtvig, the poet-prophet, emerges as a real, living and visible community, his anxiety of his imagination polluting the .spiritual waft., disappears, and as a fullgrown romantic poet and hymnwriter he gives himself fully to the breath, the waft, the mighty rushing wind of the Pentecost.
Grundtvig-litteratur 1986-1990. En bibliografi
Authors: Jørgensen Aage
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig literature 1986-1990. A bibliographical overviewBy Aage Jørgensen
Grundtvig i dag. Vartovbogen 1990
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig today. The 'Vartov' book 1990.Reviewed by William Michelsen
Skrifter udgivet af Grundtvig-Selskabet
Authors: Michelsen William , Albeck Gustav , Schjørring Jens Holger , Toftdahl Hellmut
Published: September 2020

Works published by the Grundtvig Society
Treenighed og gudbilledlighed
Authors: Pedersen Kim Arne
Published: September 2020

Trinity and Man as an Image of God.By Kim Arne PedersenRegin Prenter: »Grundtvig’s Doctrine of the Trinity.  In: N.F.S. Grundtvig Theologian and Teacher of The Church«. Published by the Committee for Church and Theology, 1983 (out of sale). »The View of the Church«. Published by the Committee for Church and Theology, on commission by the publishing firm Savanne, Christiansfeld, 1983.This review compares Professor, dr. theol. Regin Prenter’s late works on Grundtvig with the Danish theological traditions of this century. Although Prenter doesn’t intend to discuss the modern interpretations of Grundtvig, he indirectly polemicizes against Kaj Thaning’s and K.E. Løgstrup’s readings of Grundtvig as separating Christianity and human life, understanding life as created and because of that free to be lived on its own conditions. Opposite this tradition, which is inspired by Secularisation theology and is an important part of Danish Creation theology, Prenter emphasizes that the true human life is a Christian life, reborn in baptism and flourishing from the Eucharist. Human life follows a Trinitarian structure and the incarnation reunites the human life with the divine Trinity. Although Prenter criticizes Danish Creation theology, he also agrees with this tradition in stressing that human life has to be based on thrust in God as Creator and Father. Prenter interprets the divine Trinity as a personal living relationship between God as Father and God as Son, which implies a dimension of knowledge. Because of this dimension of knowledge, Prenter – like the Danish Creation theology - is aware of the metaphysical theme in Grundtvig’s theology. The reviewer agrees with Prenter in stressing this theme, but at the same time criticizes him for finding the roots of Grundtvig’s Trinitarian structure in Grundtvig’s Augustine readings and not in Grundtvig’s - critical - interactions with the philosophy of Schelling. In his attack on Schelling Grundtvig develops a Trinitarian structure based on man’s faculties of knowledge and founded in the aseite'of God as Father. Being aware of this, Prenter was able to expound also the ontological motives in Grundtvig’s theology.
Grundtvigs billedverden og teologien
Authors: Bjerring-Hansen Mogens
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig's »Pictureworld« and the theology.Jens Holger Schjørring: Grundtvig's »Pictureworld« - and the church view. Works published by the Grundtvig Society, bd. XXI, 1990.  Reviewed by Moges Bjerring-Hansen
Grundtvigs bibelhistoriske sange
Authors: Høirup Henning
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig's bible historical songs.Bibel historical songs about the old and the new pact, collected and published by Jørgen Glenthøj. Forlaget BHS (Borum Byvej, Borum, 8471 Sabro). 1990. 480 sider. 150 kr.Reviewed by Henning Høirup
Grundtvig og Norge
Authors: Aarnes Sigurd Aa.
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig and Norway - Some Distinctive FeaturesBy Sigurd Aa. AamessAlthough this paper only examines the Norwegians’ relationship with Grundtvig, the author begins with a few remarks about Grundtvig’s relationship with Norway. Grundtvig only visited Norway once in his lifetime, but he always had special relations with Norway, inspired by the romantic interest in virgin mountain countries. Grundtvig was also a friend of the two founders of the theological faculty of the University of Christiania, and until 1815 he wanted to take up a post as a vicar in Norway. Gustav Albeck has written about Grundtvig’s relations with Norway until 1816, but unfortunately the correspondence between Grundtvig and Norwegians has not yet been published.Grundtvig’s influence in Norway is most distinctive in ecclesiastical and pedagogical fields. His hymns are abundantly represented in the Norwegian hymn book, but his .church-view. has not been accepted in Norway, although there was a Grundvigian fraction among Norwegian clergymen which seemed to be successful until the middle of the 19. century. Untill 1825 Grundtvig was considered an ally by the pietistic ‘Haugians’, but after 1850 the Norwegian pietistic theological and political administration, supported by the Faculty of Theology, fought down the Grundtvigian movement within the Church. At the same time Norway accepted the Danish folk high school idea in a version close to the Danish model. The first Norwegian folk high schools were founded in 1864 and 1867, at first supported by the poet Bjömstjeme Bjömson, with whom the Grundtvigian movement broke later, however. The Norwegian folk high schools were vey closely related to the .New Norse.-language movement and were hostil to the pietistic interpretation of Christianity. In 1875 the Norwegian Government discontinued financial support of the Grundtvigian folk high schools and established some county schools instead; they were also influenced by Grundtvigian ideas, however, and in 1908 the few survivors of the Grundtvigian schools regained their official financial support. The pietistic movement has founded a lot of non-Grundtvigian folk high schools in Norway, and although they are in opposition to Grundtvig’s ideas, they are inevitably influenced by his pedagogical views. In a paradoxical and ironical way, the author concludes, the Norwegian mixture of opposition against Grundtvigianism and acceptance of Grundtvigian hymns and pedagogical ideas illustrates the Grundtvig saying that ‘the word creates what it mentions’.
Hyrdeliv og paradisdrøm. Om Grundtvigs syn på hyrder
Authors: Mikkelsen Inger Lise
Published: September 2020

Pastoral Life and Paradise DreamBy Inger Lise MikkelsenIn »The World Chronicle«, 1814, Grundtvig writes that the people of poetry, the ancient Hebrews, were a race of shepherds. The shepherds are not tied to material things, but live a life in freedom. On the plains, tending his flock, the shepherd experiences everything that is alive and growing as images of God’s creative power. Thus, he intuitively perceives his position as a creature facing his Creator.With this basic view as a point of departure, Grundtvig rewrites the Biblical stories of the shepherds Abraham and Jacob, Moses and David. They are all in an immediate, intimate contact with God, but as they live at different times, God endows them with different abilities appropriate for their concrete historical situation. Abraham and Jacob are the shepherds of faith, Moses is the shepherd of fight and hope, and David is the shepherd of love. They are all models, not because they are heroes, but because they recognize their own fragility.In the church texts, the shepherds of Christmas night play a particularly important role. In the hymn .The Christmas Chimes are sounding now. (Det kimer nu til julefest) from 1817, it is a main thought that the singers must remember pastoral life and come along into the field to hear the angel’s message together with the shepherds. To people who have a sense of the miraculous as the shepherds do, the field at Bethlehem is the centre of interest. Today only children possess a genuine shepherd’s mind. The adult can learn from them. The essential thing is to learn how to regain the child’s mind.In connection with the child theme, as shown by Chr. Thodberg, Grundtvig develops, through the 1820s, his understanding of baptism as the occasion when the adult may re-enter the dreamland of his childhood. Here Grundtvig uses Jacob’s ladder as an image of the adult’s return to his hitherto forgottem baptism.Another theme that Grundtvig makes frequent use of is the dilapidated cottage of the shepherd, his hut. He uses it as an image of man’s heart, which to Grundtvig is God’s dwelling on earth. The hut and the ladder become recurring images in Grundtvig’s hymns.Frequently the two images supplement each other so that the shepherds and Bethlehem may now move into the church. It is no longer the field, but the heart that rings with the angels’ song. Here, in the shepherd’s hut, is raised Jacob’s ladder, which reminds the singer of the childhood life under God’s care.In Grundtvig’s eyes every Christian is therefore a shepherd like the patriarchs. But above all the one baptized is like the good shepherd himself, renewing the paradise life that God created man for.
Et prægtigt erindringsværk
Authors: Pedersen E. Thestrup
Published: September 2020

A splendid memorial workHenning Høirup: »Så fjern og dog så nær. Erindringer«. Poul Kristensens forlag, 1991. 276 sider. Kr. 168.Reviewed by E. Thestrup Pedersen
Kan grundtvigsk folkelighed eksporteres?
Authors: Toftdahl Hellmut
Published: September 2020

Can grundtvigian folksiness be exported?Poul Engberg: Grundtvig between east and west. (Grundtvig mellem øst og vest). Mellem Sofia og Ratio. 88 sider - 128 kr. Poul Kristensens forlag 1993.Reviewed by Hellmut Toftdahl
Folkehøjskoletraditionen og det internationale perspektiv
Authors: Havrehed Karen Helene
Published: September 2020

The tradition of folk high schools and the international perspectiveBy Karan Helene Havrehed
Den nordiske mytologi, folkehøjskolen og livsoplysningen
Authors: Pedersen Kim Arne
Published: September 2020

The nordic mythology, folk high school and the information of lifeBy Kim Arne Pedersen
Hvad er elementær moral i dag?
Authors: Michelsen William
Published: September 2020

What is elementary moral today?By William Michelsen
Grundtvig og Geijer
Authors: Pedersen Kim Arne
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig and Geijer - Two Meetings and a PartingBy Kim Arne PedersenThe point of departure of the article is partly a seminar, held in the spring of 1996 at Karlstad H.gskola, entitled Grundtvig, Geijer and Their Impact, partly the fact that this year it is 150 years since the first real meeting between Grundtvig and the Swedish historian, Erik Gustav Geijer, took place. This meeting came about in connection with the celebration of Geijer in Copenhagen in 1846. Prior to the personal meeting between the two, Geijer had attended Grundtvig’s church service in Our Saviour’s Church in Christianshavn in 1825.The article begins with a description of similarities and differences between Grundtvig and Geijer. Among other things, the similarities consist in the inspiration from Romanticism, shared by both of them, their emphasis on the Nordic tradition of freedom, and their meeting, in both cases, with the freedom224 loving England. Whereas Grundtvig became isolated in his early years, among other things because he dissociated himself from German Idealism, Geijer never broke with that Idealism, and only late did he experience an isolation from his former conservative-romantic environment. It was precisely in the years when Grundtvig’s isolation is broken that Geijer embraces the ideas of liberty (1838). The article goes on to present Geijer’s desciption of Grundtvig’s church service in 1825. Geijer likes Grundtvig’s sermon, but does not care much for his unmusical chanting of the Mass or the Danish church service customs. The article contains two further references to Grundtvig’s chanting.The article then reproduces two draughts for toast speeches to Geijer, given by Grundtvig in connection with the celebration in 1846, followed by an analysis of the speeches.In the first draught Grundtvig points out that he and Geijer were bom in the same year. In that connection Grundtvig mentions that the movements towards national liberty at the end of the 18th century found a peaceful reflection in Scandinavia. He proceeds to describe the historical interest common to himself and Geijer and sees their appraisal of the North as an indication of the flourishing Nordic life that Grundtvig expects.The other draught begins with Grundtvig’s version of the Greek poet Pindar. He uses Pindar’s poem as an image of the link between Ancient Greek and Nordic culture that he sees as his goal, and he makes it clear that the North today surpasses Greece.In conclusion, the article refers to the last hours of Grundtvig’s life when Geijer’s .Svenska Folkets Historia. was read aloud to him.
Salmen at sige Verden ret Farvel - belyst ved Grundtvigs samtidige prædikener
Authors: Holm Jette
Published: September 2020

The Hymn To Say the World a Right Farewell - in the Light of Grundtvig 's Contemporary SermonsBy Jette HolmGrundtvig wrote the hymn At sige verden ret farvel (To Say the World a Right Farewell) for himself.The first 5 stanzas and the final stanza were composed in Easter 1843 (2 drafts). Stanzas 6-8 were added around Advent 1844.In Easter 1843 Grundtvig felt immensely moved by the sound of His voice saying: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; And whosoeverr liveth and believeth in me shall never die (John 11). The sermon on Easter morning ends by quoting 2 stanzas and the final stanza of the hymn To say the World a Right Farewell. The version of these three stanzas varies slightly compared with Grundtvig’s hymn manuscript and has not previously been known to Grundtvig scholars.It is argued that Grundtvig probably composes the two new stanzas in connection with his sermons for Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, and these sermons help to throw light on the content of the hymn.In the spring of 1843 Grundtvig is preparing a hymn book supplement: Psalm-Leaves for Church-Use (or Unprinted Psalm Leaves) in reply to Mynster’s A Proposal for a Supplement to the Evangelical-Christian Hymn Book, 1843. The issue of the hymns takes a new turn when the Clerical Conference of Copenhagen sets up a committee in February-March 1844 with Grundtvig as a member. The task of the committee is to attempt to put together a new hymn book to replace the Evangelical-Christian Hymn Book. In the spring of 1844 Grundtvig is ill and in a deep crisis; but in the autumn of 1844 he begins work in the committee. When Mynster criticizes the work on a complete hymn book, Grundtvig decides to edit his Unprinted Psalm Leaves. The first two sheets of Printed Psalm Leaves have left the printers in November 1844, but the Hymn Committee persuades Grundtvig to have the supplement published as a specimen copy: Church Hymns Published on Trial by the Hymn Committee of the Clerical Conference of Copenhagen, January 1845.In the specimen copy the hymn To say the World a Right Farewell has 3 stanzas added to it. These stanzas reflect Grundtvig’s crisis in the spring of 1844. The content of the new or altered stanzas of the hymn is discussed and elucidated through Grundtvig’s contemporary sermons.In the autumn of 1844 Grundtvig often preaches about faith, hope and charity. As Christianity is always and everywhere three-fold, embracing faith, hope and charity, so is Grundtvig’s own hymn, too. With a certain caution it may be said that the three stages in the development of the hymn correspond to faith, hope and charity: the two first drafts corresponding to faith and hope, and the third in 1844 to charity.
Grundtvigs betydning for voksenundervisning i Tyskland
Authors: Schjørring Jens Holger
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig's importance for adult education in GermanyNorbert Vogel: Grundtvigs Bedeutung für die deutsche Erwachsenenbildung. Ein Beitrag zur Bildungsgeschichte. Verlag Jullius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 1994.Reviewed by Jens Holger Schjørring
Grundtvig och Geijer - Två nordiska giganter
Authors: Nilsson Gert
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig and Geijer - Two nordic giantsReviewed by Gert Nilsson
Magnus Stevns: Fra Grundtvigs salmeværksted
Authors: Møller Niels
Published: September 2020

Magnus Stevns: Fra Grundtv igs Salmeværksted (From the hymnstudio of Grundtv ig) . Udgiv e t af H enning Høirup og Steen Johansen. København 1950. Re v iewed b y Nie l s Møller. This collection of essays on Grundtvig’s hymns by Magnus Stevns, whose work as an editor of the hymns was cut short by his untimely death, is to be regarded as a monument in honour both of Grundtvig and of Stevns himself, who was richly endowed with the qualities required in the ideal interpreter of Grundtvig, especially a strong spiritual affinity with him. Stevns begins as an essentially aesthetic critic, but ends as a convinced preacher of the peculiar Grundtvigian views and principles of Christianity and humanity. Two special theses seem characteristic of Stevn’s investigations: 1) that Gr. belongs to the type of poets who tend to react against their predecessors and models rather than to imitate them; 2) that Gr. in his hymns fixes his eye on the path of victory beyond the Cross towards the glory of Heaven, while his predecessors in Danish hymnody look mostly at the path of obedience and self-sacrifice leading towards the Cross. Lastly, some minor mistakes in the essays are demonstrated. But even where such errors occur, the main drift of the several essays and the many valuable observations which they contain will make the studying of them really worth while.
Om Bent Christensens disputats: Omkring Grundtvigs Vidskab
Authors: Thyssen A. Pontoppidan
Published: September 2020

About Bent Christensen’s Dissertation for the Doctorate, »About Grundtvig ’s Vidskab «By Anders Pontoppidan Thyssen
Sangværket som udviklingsroman. Om Randi Habersaat Rodes bog Barneglad og engleklog
Authors: Auken Sune
Published: September 2020

The Song-Work as Bildungsroman About Randi Habersaat Rode’s book Barneglad og engleklog (1996)By Sune AukenThe article recognizes that with the book Barneglad og engleklog Randi Rode has made a significant contribution to Grundtvig research. The book is important for two reasons, partly because it is the first major work in literary scholarship on Grundtvig for a very long time, and partly because in its attempt to conceive of the first 146 hymns in Grundtvig’s Song-Work to the Danish Church as a coherent whole, it provides a thorough study of a text corpus which in previous Grundtvig scholarship has never been dealt with as a series of connected texts.At the same time, however, the article takes a doubtful look at the fundamental approaches in the book. Two features are questioned in the article: the method of the book and its treatment of the ma-terial. Barneglad og engleklog subscribes to the intertextual method which examines the connections between different texts, but the article argues that the book overlooks a series of important distinctions relating to intertextuality, and that consequently a number of the conclusions drawn in the book on the background of its method become dubious. Furthermore, the article questions the attempt made in the book to point out a sequential pattern in the first 146 hymns of the Song-Work to the Danish Church. A few of the interpretations contained in the book are taken up, and in each case it is concluded that the connections which Barneglad og engleklog professes to see are more than doubtful.The article concludes with regret that if the Song-Work to the Danish Church is carefully composed, that composition is different from the one presented in Barneglad og engleklog.
Om højskole og kristendom
Authors: Aronson Harry
Published: September 2020

About Folk High School and ChristianityReviewed by Harry Aronson
Den liturgiske eksegese og Grundtvig
Authors: Thodberg Christian
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig and Liturgical ExegesisBy Christian ThodbergLiturgical exegesis is defined as the way in which the Church re-actualised the words and deeds of Jesus in the service of worship in trying to answer the need of the congregation for being simultaneous with the biblical events. In the Western Church this liturgical exegesis received an emphatic exposition in connection with the old series of pericopes in the roman mass and in most of protestant churches as well.Many modem preachers do not like the old lectionary because it is crammed with the stories of Jesus’ miracles which - as they say - have no relevance to churchgoers of today. Grundtvig, however, always met those stories with pleasure, because in his opinion, they dealt with Jesus’ strong deeds in the worship today in baptism and communion. And essentially the biblical readings are worked out on the Sundays before and after the old baptismal terms, either at Easter time, or on the sixth of January, or at Whitsun. Thus baptism is defined in three ways by the three old baptismal terms: on January sixth as a birth with Christ, at Easter as death and resurrection with Christ and at Pentecost as the reception of the gift of the Holy Spirit.The Western system of gospel readings in general survived the Reformation, but in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the account of Christ’s acts of power came under critical scrutiny. They were understood as magical elements, which obscured the character of the bible as the teaching of Christianity. Parallel with this, in the context of the liturgy, the renunciation and the naming of the Devil and the word Hell was removed from the Apostles’ Creed in the baptismal rite and the Annunciation, the Resurrection and the Ascension were understood as images.As an old-fashioned believer, Grundtvig protested against all this. Christianity depended on Christ’s works of power. But despite his faith that the bible was literally God’s word, his problem was this: When and how did God’s word and Christ’s deeds of power touch him personally? Theologically, the question about the presence of God was a problem for Grundtvig throughout his life. In simple terms: Where does God speak to mel Grundtvig’s problem was solved by his famous »unparalleled discovery«, which became the hermeneutic key to his sermons. The thesis of liturgical history scholarship is that liturgical exegesis has its place already in the New Testament, and that the secondary epistles of St. Paul in connection (Ephesians, Colossians) can be rehabilitated, since they give us the key to the understanding of Jesus’ miracles in relations to baptism. In the end it points to Grundtvig’s persistent attempt to find the place where God speaks to him, where he intuitively rediscovers the early church’s understanding of the connection between Jesus’ works of power and baptism, and which thus becomes a contemporary challenge to New Testament scholarship and preaching today.
Grundtvig and the War that changed Danish Identity
Authors: Kuhn Hans
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig og den krig, som ændrede den danske identitetAf Hans KuhnGrundtvig var længe, som Kierkegaard, en outsider i sin tids København. Hans vision af en kristeligt inspireret national og social fornyelse vandt ringe genklang hos guldalderens æsteter (som parret Heiberg), hvor teatret var den centrale kulturelle institution, og hos de liberale aktivister (som Lehmann og Ploug), for hvilke enevældens afskaffelse var hovedmålet. Den nationalistiske bølge, som Treårskrigen fremkaldte, gav ham en chance for at nå et publikum i alle regioner og samfundslag, ikke fordi hans ugeblad »Danskeren« spredtes så vidt, men fordi mange af de mere end 150 tidsdigte, han publicerede i det, blev optaget i svigersønnen P. O. Boisens Nye og gamle Viser af og for det Danske Folk, som ikke kun blev en stor succes som soldatervisebog, men var meget udbredt i de følgende decennier (ca 7.000 trykte eksemplarer) og blev forbillede for mange andre sangbøger, bl.a. Folkehøjskolesangbogen. Disse sange tog deres udgangspunkt ikke i landsoldatens, sømandens eller den borgerlige frivilliges psykologiske situation og praktiske problem, som f. eks. Fabers, Reckes og H.C. Andersens krigssange gjorde, men i syner af dansk historie og danskernes bestemmelse i verden, som Grundtvig havde formuleret langt tidligere: danskerne som Guds udvalgte folk og som en nordisk bastion mod Syden, modersmålet som nationens vigtigste integrationsmoment, almuen som det sande ‘folk’, en åndelig og politisk dansk-tysk modsætning fra arilds tid. Billedverdenen i disse digte kom fra Bibelen (f.eks. »den gamle af dage« eller »danskerne som offerlam«), heraldikken (den danske løve mod den tyske ørn eller lindorm, den holstenske nælle), den nordiske mytologi (Thors hammer, Mimers brønd, Baldersbålet, skjoldmøer) eller mytisk historie (Uffe hin Spage, Niels Ebbesen).Kun i den udstrækning, der fandtes kendte eller blev skrevet gode nye melodier, kunne disse (alt andet end ‘folkelige’) digte få succes som sange. Melodien til tidens efter »Kong Christian« mest udbredte patriotiske sang, »Danmark dejligst Vang og Vænge«, blev brugt til »Danmarks Løve, ryst din Manke«, melodien til en krigssang fra århundredets begyndelse, »Saa kæmped de Helte af Anden April« til »Kong Vermund den gamle, af Alderdom blind«, melodien til »Moders Navn er en himmelsk Lyd« til »Dannemark er det gamle Navn«, Weyses melodi til Willemoessangen »Kommer hid, I Piger smaa« til »Kommer, alle Moders Børn«, mens »Fædemeland ved den bølgende Strand« måtte vente til Nutzhorns melodi, førend den blev udbredt som sang i 1860erne, i tiden for den anden slesvigske krig. Artiklen koncentrerer sig om de første digte fra marts/april 1848, som allerede indeholdt hele Gmndtvigs program eller vision for en ny dansk identitet.
To Grundtvig-biografier
Authors: Kelstrup Erik
Published: September 2020

Two Grundtvig-biographies By Erik Kelstrup
Formandes årsberetning
Authors: Balslev-Clausen Peter
Published: September 2020

Report on the Grundtvig Society's companyBy Peter Balslev-Clausen
Fortegnelse over forfatternes adresser
Authors: Lundgreen-Nielsen Flemming , Michelsen William , Bradley S. A. J. , Pedersen Kim Arne , Schjørring Jens Holger
Published: September 2020

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Voksenutdannelse, folkeopplysning og demokrati. Aktuelle og omfangsrike antologier
Authors: Klonteig Olav
Published: September 2020

Voksenuddannelse, folkeoplysning og demokrati. Aktuelle og omfangsrige antologier.Adult education, public awareness and democracy. Current and comprehensive anthologies. By Olav Klonteig
Kend dig selv: Om det sociale individ og det sunde samfund
Authors: Birkelund Regner
Published: September 2020

Kend dig selv: Om det sociale individ og det sunde samfund[Know yourself: On the social individual and the healthy society]By Regner BirkelundOn the basis of a speech Gr held at Marielyst Highschool in 1862, the significance of the ancient Greek ideal of enlightenment, embodied in the Latin maxim Nosce te ipsum [Know yourself], is explored, which can be taken back to the Oracle at Delphi but which was also a central turning-point in both Plato’s and Aristotle’s pedagogic and social thinking. Partly by introducing the Greek ideal of enlightenment into his speech, Gr reveals a Greek dimension to his ideas on lifeenlightenment and social communality which has hitherto been only sporadically focussed upon in Grundtvig scholarship. This perception, that the expression ‘Know yourself simultaneously refers itself to an act of cognition and to the development of an innate potential for ethical engagement, is substantiated and placed in relationship to Gr’s concept of the divine image in humanity.
Grundtvig and the abolition of slavery
Authors: Bugge K. E.
Published: September 2020

Grundtvig and the abolition of slavery[Grundtvig og ophævelsen af slaveriet]Af K. E. BuggeI efteråret 1839 indtrådte N. F. S. Grundtvig i en lille komite, hvis formål var at arbejde for slaveriets endegyldige ophør på de dansk vestindiske øer. Grundtvig deltog i arbejdet gennem alle de år, komiteen eksisterede, dvs. til og med 1848. Komiteen var blevet til efter opfordring fra engelske “abolitionister”, dvs. kredse og enkeltpersoner, der arbejdede for slaveriets ophævelse.Dermed indledes en næsten ukendt fase af Grundtvigs liv og virke. Formand for slavekomiteen var Grundtvigs mangeårige ven, botanikeren professor J. F. Schouw. I årene op mod forfatningsændringen i 1849 ansås han for en af landets førende politikere. Endvidere førte slavesagen til et samarbejde ikke blot med den siden så berømte statsmand D. G. Monrad, men indirekte også med Grundtvigs tidligere teologiske modstander, professor H. N. Clausen, en af tidens mest indflydelsesrige liberale politikere. Arbejdet i slavekomiteen indgik således blandt de personlige erfaringer, der i 1848 motiverede Grundtvig til at lade sig vælge til den grundlovgivende rigsforsamling. (Bugge 2003, bagsidetekst).
Alive and well in Eastern Europe: A review
Authors: Bron Agnieszka
Published: September 2020

I live og okay i Østeuropa: En anmeldelseAf Agnieszka Bron
Paul Röhrig in memoriam
Authors: Vogel Norbert
Published: September 2020

Paul Røhrig in memoriamAf/by Norbert VogelNorbert Vogels nekrolog over Paul Røhrig, professor i almen pædagogik ved Kölns Universitet, fremhæver hans organisering og ledelse af den store internationale Grundtvig-kongres i 1988 i anledning af universitetets 600-.rs jubil.um som et udtryk for hans livslange humanistiske indsats for voksenoplysning og arbejderuddannelse.Han erhvervede sig gentagne indtryk, b.de praktiske og teoretiske, fra den danske højskolebevægelse og søgte som den bedste tyske kender p. feltet at udbrede viden om Grundtvigs pædagogiske tanker i Tyskland.Norbert Vogel’s obituary for Paul Røhrig, professor of education in the University of Cologne, emphasises his organization and leadership of the major international Grundtvig-congress in 1988 in connection with the university’s 600th anniversary, as an expression of his lifelong humanistic engagement with adult education and workers’ education. He drew his constant inspiration, both practical and theoretical, from the Danish high school movement and, as the German most familiar with the territory, he sought to disseminate knowledge of Grundtvig’s educational thinking in Germany.
Third Grundtvig International Conference on Education, Communication and Development, India 2007
Authors: Bhattacharya Asoke
Published: September 2020

Third Grundtvig International Conference on Education, Communication and Development, India 2007[Den tredje Grundtvig konference om uddannelse, kommunikation og udvikling, Indien 2007]Af Asoke BhattacharyaI januar 2007 blev der afholdt to Grundtvig konferencer i Indien, den første i Calcutta, den anden i Mitraniketan, Kerala. Konferencen i Calcutta var den tredje i løbet af 8 år. Interessen og forståelsen for Grundtvig er blevet uddybet, og flere personer er i løbet af perioden blevet inddraget, b.de fra andre indiske delstater og fra andre lande i Indien. Konferencen i Kerala foregik på folkehøjskolen i Mitraniketan, der drives i nært samarbejde med danske højskoler.
Den norske avdeling av Grundtvig-Selskabet af 8. september 1947: Årsrapport 2006-2007
Authors: Heggem Synnøve Sakura
Published: September 2020

Report on the Grundtvig Society's company from the norwedian departmentBy Synnøve Sakura Heggem
Om N. F. S. Grundtvig og G. P. Brammer
Authors: Eskedal Anders
Published: September 2020

Om N. F. S. Grundtvig og G. P. Brammer[Concerning N. F. S. Grundtvig and G. P. Brammer]By Anders EskedalThe hitherto unprinted letter here transcribed and commented was found among the works and papers left by Professor A. P. Thyssen. Dated 1824, it reveals a small and otherwise unknown correspondence concerning matters of business between Grundtvig and Gerhard Peter Brammer (1801-1884) who was to become (1830) principal of Snedsted pastoral college of education and (1845) Bishop of Aarhus. In his early years Brammer was acquainted with Grundtvig and much influenced by his theology. The article argues that despite disagreements and incompatibilities of temperament between Brammer and both Grundtvig and the Grundtvigians this influence was sustained throughout Brammer’s life. The whole of their correspondence in the years 1821-1825 is accounted for, in order to document both the context of the transcribed letter and the early relationship between Grundtvig and Brammer.The article then analyses the incident in 1824 which started the conflicts between Brammer and Grundtvig and the theological disagreements which finally led the two men into very different paths.
Spænding, samspil og frisættelse: En undersøgelse af forholdet mellem inkarnation og eskatologi i Grundtvigs salme “Midt iblandt os er Guds Rige”
Authors: Schiøler Aage
Published: September 2020

Spænding, samspil ogfrisættelse: En undersøgelse afforholdet mellem inkarnation og eskatologi i Grundtvigs salme “Midt iblandt os er Guds Rige”, 1853 (GSVlIV, 344-345)[Tension, interplay, and release: An analysis of the relation between incarnation and eschatology in Grundtvig 's hymn “Midt iblandt os er Guds Rige” (The Kingdom of God is in our midst)]By Aage SchiølerThe article analyses the hymn’s composition and its vocabulary with special reference to its biblical background and its relation to Christian traditions. Its distinctive character is determined as a suspenseful interplay between a dynamic way of thinking and a meditative mode of expression. In consequence of this interplay, even the hymn’s final statement is marked by openness, not termination.A comparison between the composition of the hymn and the structure of examples from Japanese Haiku-poetry reveals that, although invisible, the Kingdom of God, the hymn’s main topic, is not to be perceived as a mere figment of the brain, the content of which would depend on the reader’s fortuitous ideas or personal preferences. It stands forth as the coordinating fellow player within the total context of the hymn, and as such it is defined as a liberating intervention in human life that opens its basic qualities: faith, hope, and charity, towards the future, as well in communal life as in individual existences. The force and contents of this authentic human existence, as it could be called, are the life and destiny of Jesus from Nazareth. It is seen as carried down through history by means of the preaching of the Gospel, Baptism, and Holy Communion in Christian congregations, exerting influence within communal life, and being accepted by the individual through faith.As the essence of this freedom and openness, The Kingdom of God forms the connexion between incarnation, seen as the crucial, liberating event in history in day-to-day matters in the present time, and eschatology, seen as an incessant, new opening towards the future both in chronological meaning, ‘earthly’, and in existential significance, ‘eternally’.