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Degrees of Faith? Interpreting Doctrine for TodayIn Anne Runehov & Michael Fuller (eds.), Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope: Essays in Honour of Willem B. Drees, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 47-61. 2024.In this chapter I discuss a project on the enduring significance of liberal Protestantism that was initiated and completed by Wim Drees. In this project, Dr3ees rejected the all-or-nothing approaches to Christian theology that are often endorsed by ‘orthodox’ Christians and atheists alike, and argues in favor of a liberal approach that is open to scientific developments and changing moral intuitions. Drees also argues against the prejudice that liberal Christians believe less, and argues that th…Read more
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5In Bijdragen 59 Rudi te Velde argued that our appeal to St. Anselm in elucidating the tenets of the ‘Utrecht school’ in philosophical theology is unjustified, because of a presumed anti-realist tendency in our thinking. In our reply we point out that this accusation is the result of a confusion between the disciplines of philosophical theology and religious epistemology. Philosophical theology accepts from an insiders-perspective belief claims which are not directly accessible to reason or obser…Read more
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5Een geloofsbelijdenis als een trouwbelofteAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112 (4): 448-452. 2020.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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8‘A Barricade across the High Road’: C.S. Lewis on the theology of his timeHTS Theological Studies 75 (4): 1-7. 2019.In this article, I analyse C.S. Lewis’s attitude towards the theology and the theologians of his time. Lewis often emphasised that he was not a theologian. Sometimes he does so out of modesty, to excuse minor errors that a specialist in the field would not have made. More often than not, however, something else plays a role: Lewis’s dislike of the theology and the theologians of his time. Although he intended not to become a party in theological controversies, Lewis occasionally took sides. He e…Read more
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17The ultimate miracle? The historicity of the Resurrection of JesusHTS Theological Studies 70 (1). 2014.
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18Believing in God the Father: Interpreting a phrase from the Apostle’s CreedHTS Theological Studies 72 (4): 1-4. 2016.In our days, the creedal phrase 'I believe in God the Father almighty' is interpreted primarily along Trinitarian lines: It is applied to God as the Father of Jesus Christ. Here I argue that it has a dual background: in Jesus' prayer practice, in which He consistently addressed God as 'Father', and in the Hellenistic habit of referring to the Creator as 'Father'. I discuss Jesus' use of the term 'Father' against its Old Testament background, and argue that it primarily points to the intimacy of …Read more
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12Vincent Brümmer and Marcel Sarot (eds.) Revelation and Experience [Proceedings of the 11th Biennial European Conference on the Philosophy of Religion]International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 46 (2): 119-122. 1999.
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10Logica en het berouw van GodPhilosophia Reformata 63 (2): 155-163. 1998.In een tweetal artikelen in dit tijdschrift heeft Henk Geertsema aandacht besteed aan de Utrechtse wijsgerige theologie. In het eerste artikel concentreerde hij zich op de bundel Hoe is Uw Naam?, terwijl hij in het tweede vooral ingaat op het werk van Vincent Brümmer. De scheiding is echter niet zo strikt; ook in het artikel over Brümmer komt Geertsema veelvuldig over Hoe is Uw Naam? te spreken. In deze reactie wil ik ingaan op Geertsema’s kritiek op de wijze waarop Gijsbert van den Brink en ond…Read more
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Does God Suffer?: A Critical Discussion of Thomas G. Weinandy's Does God Suffer?'Ars Disputandi 1 1-9. 2001.The author argues that Thomas G. Weinandy in his book Does God Suffer? starts from the axiom of divine apathy, rather than that he argues for it. He criticizes the hermeneutic implicit in Weinandy’s interpretation of 1 Samuel 15, and proposes an alternative approach. Moreover, he criticizes Weinandy’s appeal to agreement among the church fathers and his appeal to the doctrine of the Trinity
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31Almighty God:A study of the Doctrine of Divine Omnipotence by Gijsbert van den Brink (review)Sophia 34 (1): 277-278. 1995.Studies in Philosophical Theology [7] Kampen, Kok Pharos, 1993
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22Sisyphus revisited. Reflections on the analogy between linguistic meaning and the meaning of lifeNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 38 (2): 219-231. 1996.
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In this article, I apply the theory of tradition Karl Popper developed in an article on the rationalist tradition to Christianity. Popper helps us to distinguish between four functions of the Christian tradition. The Christian tradition helps people to order their perceptions by suggesting distinctions between what is important and what is less important. The Christian tradition provides people with guidelines for their behaviour. The Christian tradition provides a framework that helps us to und…Read more
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77Omniscience and experienceInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 30 (2). 1991.My conclusions are the following:We can distinguish between two sorts of kowledge: intellectual knowledge (knowledge of true propositions) and experiential knowledge (knowledge of how certain experiences feel).If we want the doctrine of divine omniscience to be theologically relevant, we will have to assert that divine omniscience involves experiential as well as intellectual omniscience.In order to be omniscient, God does not need to share all the feelings of His creatures with them. However, i…Read more
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9Transformative Poetry. A Case Study of W. H. Auden’s Musée Des Beaux Arts and General ConclusionsPerichoresis 14 (2): 81-97. 2016.This article situates Auden’s poem Musée des Beaux Arts in the process of his conversion to Christianity. The author argues for the layered intertextuality of the poem, in which allusions to Bruegel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, The Census at Jerusalem, and The Massacre of the Innocents can be recognised. Moreover, Philippe de Champaigne’s Presentation in the Temple and Peter Paul Rubens’s The Martyrdom of St Livinus seem also to have influenced the poem. Finally, there is reason to suppo…Read more
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9Logica en het berouw van GodPhilosophia Reformata 63 (2): 155-163. 1998.In een tweetal artikelen in dit tijdschrift heeft Henk Geertsema aandacht besteed aan de Utrechtse wijsgerige theologie. In het eerste artikel concentreerde hij zich op de bundel Hoe is Uw Naam?, terwijl hij in het tweede vooral ingaat op het werk van Vincent Brümmer. De scheiding is echter niet zo strikt; ook in het artikel over Brümmer komt Geertsema veelvuldig over Hoe is Uw Naam? te spreken. In deze reactie wil ik ingaan op Geertsema’s kritiek op de wijze waarop Gijsbert van den Brink en ond…Read more
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Philosophy of Religion |