Showing papers by "Protestant Theological University published in 2017"
TL;DR: The Dutch Case Studies Project (CSP) as mentioned in this paper ) is a case study project for Dutch chaplaincy care that uses a set format and procedure and evaluation in research communities of chaplains and academic researchers.
Abstract: The recent surge of case studies in chaplaincy care raises challenges on the comparability of case studies and the degree to which they elucidate the relation between theory and practice. The Dutch Case Studies Project (CSP) addresses these and other issues by use of a set format and procedure and by evaluation in research communities of chaplains and academic researchers. We first place CSP in the context of Dutch chaplaincy and its recent history. The question of selection of a case for a case study then leads to a discussion of a number of methodological issues. That moves into an explanation of the following steps in the procedure: description, evaluation and finalization. Issues for further discussion and a conclusion complete the article.
10 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the author presents the understandings of joy from the perspectives of Blaise Pascal, A.A. van Ruler and Pentecostals from Ecuador and explores the implications for theological anthropology.
Abstract: The growing scholarly debate on emotions and the development of Pentecostal and Charismatic churches in the Global South are just two reasons that urge systematic theology to relate more concretely to faith experiences. Potkay and others present joy as a typical Christian emotion, but it is not a key theme in systematic theology, although it plays far more prominent a role in spiritual and practical theological works. In this paper, the author presents the understandings of joy from the perspectives of Blaise Pascal, A.A. van Ruler and Pentecostals from Ecuador and explores the implications for theological anthropology. Based on the study of these three perspectives, the author defends the thesis that joy offers a new focus in the field of theological anthropology that places different traditional theological perspectives on the human being in a fresh relation to each other and lays a foundation for a theological contribution to emotion studies.
8 citations
TL;DR: De Muynck, Pieter Vos, Jan Hoogland, and Jan Van der Stoep Driestar Christian University, Gouda, The Netherlands as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Bram de Muynck, Pieter Vos, Jan Hoogland, and Jan Van der Stoep Driestar Christian University, Gouda, The Netherlands; Theological University Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands; Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Viaa, University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, The Netherlands; VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Ede Christian University of Applied Sciences, Ede, The Netherlands
7 citations
TL;DR: The case study "Moral Injury" as discussed by the authors traces care provided by a chaplain in a mental health institution to a former military marksman named "Hans" who was in care at a specialized unit for military veterans with traumas.
Abstract: The case study “Moral Injury” traces care provided by a chaplain in a mental health institution to a former military marksman named “Hans”. Hans was in care at a specialized unit for military veterans with traumas. He sought contact with a chaplain “to set things right with God” and wanted the chaplain to perform a ritual to that end. The case study traces the care provided in conversations, in the reading of Psalms and in the construction and performance of a ritual.
6 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an alternative approach is presented, in which vocation as a particular calling from God's side can be reconnected to everyday life, including the life sphere of work and profession.
Abstract: Vocation, interpreted as the calling of every individual believer to serve God in ordinary life, has been an important feature of Protestantism. However, not only has the notion of vocation gradually disappeared from the late modern understanding of work and profession, the identification of vocation and work has also been criticized by theologians such as Karl Barth, Miroslav Volf, Jacques Ellul, and Gerrit de Kruijf. From their eschatological perspective, these theologians hold that because our true vocation is to be citizens of God's kingdom, work is a relative good or even a necessary evil. Although this criticism is in various respects justified and relevant, it tends to overlook the particularity of callings included in the Protestant conception of vocation. Therefore, an alternative approach is presented, in which vocation as a particular calling from God's side can be reconnected to everyday life, including the life sphere of work and profession. From this approach, this article explores t...
6 citations
TL;DR: The authors formulates a set of theological and missiological reflections on the issue of conversion-based asylum claims in Europe, and draws on the interactions of multiple voices addressing the issue in Europe.
Abstract: This article draws on the interactions of multiple voices addressing the issue of conversion-based asylum claims in Europe. It formulates a set of theological and missiological reflections on conve...
5 citations
TL;DR: The authors showed that informal communities of adolescents (faith tribes) can restore the individual-communal balance in faith development, and that youth ministry should encourage adolescents and tribal leaders to be aware of the faith possibilities of tribes.
Abstract: This article describes how communal aspects of faith find their way back into the lives of adolescents. The communal aspects of faith within individualized societies need more attention. It seems that with the current emphasis on individual faith, the intrinsic power of communal aspects of faith has been lost. This study shows that informal communities of adolescents—faith tribes—can restore the individual–communal balance in faith development. Youth ministry should encourage adolescents and tribal leaders to be aware of the faith possibilities of tribes.
4 citations
TL;DR: Thematic issues of the Thematic Issue as discussed by the authors have been used to discuss Hellenism and Hellenisation and the changes taking place in scholarship in the Hellenistic period.
Abstract: This introduction aims at situating the contributions of the Thematic Issue into wider debates on Hellenism and Hellenisation and changes taking place in scholarship. Essentialist notions of Hellenism are strongly rejected, but how then to study the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran site during the Hellenistic period? Each contextualisation depends on the (comparative) material selected, and themes here vary from literary genres, textual practices, and forms of producing knowledge, to material culture, networks, and social organizations. All contributors see some embeddedness in ideas and practices attested elsewhere in the Hellenistic empires or taking place because of changes during the Hellenistic period. In this framework, similarities are overemphasized, but some differences are also suggested. Most importantly, the question of Hellenism is a question of relocating Jewish and Judaean evidence in the study of ancient history.
3 citations
01 Mar 2017
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TL;DR: This article argued that the original meaning of the apprenticeship model is challenged by an emphasis in youth ministry practices on the individual relationship between youth ministers and youngsters and on finding individual forms of religious sense in life in favor of the ideal to acculturate a new generation in faith communities.
Abstract: In 2012, I proposed the apprenticeship model as a promising catechetical model for church communities in which catechists might be hope generators, and the church community becomes a community of hope. This article argues that the original meaning of the apprenticeship model is challenged by an emphasis in youth ministry practices on the individual relationship between youth ministers and youngsters and on finding individual forms of religious sense in life in favor of the ideal to acculturate a new generation in faith communities. The article discusses the implications for religious education practices that teach young people to learn to hope.
1 citations
22 Mar 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the supracelestial powers Micheus and Michar are involved in the baptism of those wishing to be initiated into the salvation that would enable them to ascend to a higher spiritual level.
Abstract: In five Sethian texts, the supracelestial powers Micheus and Michar are involved in the baptism of those wishing to be initiated into the salvation that would enable them to ascend to a higher spiritual level. The provenance of these two names is unknown. This paper proposes two hypotheses: first, that Micheus and Michar are corruptions of the name of the biblical prophet Micah the Morasthite (Μιχαίας in the Septuagint and מיכה in Hebrew), and second, that Micheus and Michar may be considered Micah’s supracelestial archetype. In favour of the first hypothesis, other examples of such corruptions in Sethian documents are given: Iesseus Mazareus Iessedekeus for Jesus Ναζωραῖος and δίκαιος, and Setheus for Seth. For the second hypothesis this paper refers to Melchizedek, Jacob, Jezebel, Joel, Malachi, and John the Baptist as other contemporaneous examples of heavenly or supracelestial archetypes of biblical persons. That Micah’s archetype was involved in baptism may have been inspired by the final verses of the book of Micah on casting sins into the depths of the sea, which was interpreted as a reference to baptism.
17 May 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that togetherness is important through undirected being-together, based on emotional and affectual bonds and that being together precedes formal organizing.
Abstract: Adolescence can be characterised as the process of finding the balance between the questions about identity (‘Who am I?’) and togetherness (‘Who am I with?’) The social environment of adolescents has a significant influence on this process This environment, however, is in transition: from organisations to open networks with new forms of relationships and connections for adolescents This transition also influences the field of youth ministry This article considers the role small groups of adolescents can play in youth ministry in this changing social context Based on qualitative research conducted amongst five small groups of adolescents, this article argues that togetherness is important through undirected being-together, based on emotional and affectual bonds The results of this research are related to Maffesoli’s theory of tribalisation: being-together precedes formal organising Being-together is a basic given and an important factor to consider in youth ministry