Articles by Susanne Yngvesson
Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson is the Associated Professor in Ethics at Uppsala University and Senior Lecturer at Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden. Her main research areas are Perceptions of Gaze, Religion and Surveillance, Freedom of Religion and Conscience, and Media Ethics. Current publications in English are: “To See the World as it Appears: Vision, the Gaze and the Camera as Technological Eye" and “‘He Bound His Son Isaac and Laid Him on the Altar.´ Reading the Akedah through Kierkegaard and Stagnelius.”
by Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson
A common belief among Christians is to imagine the creation of the world as an historical point at an end of a linear timeline; when God separated light from darkness and heaven from earth. The risk of describing creation as an historical point is to reduce it, to make it mechanical (cause and effect), as if everything was completed and perfect once upon a time and has to be restored.
