Protestant Theological University

About: Protestant Theological University is a education organization based out in Kampen, Netherlands. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Religious education & Protestantism. The organization has 86 authors who have published 188 publications receiving 889 citations.

Theology-missiology on the Move: Loving and One Another, Back to Basics

Abstract: The present article, with a special attention to migration dynamics, envisions a theology-missiology relevant to both academic and non-academic settings by means of a quest to place theology at the heart of the definition of missiology. The article argues that a theology-missiology defined through ‘love God’ and ‘love your fellow human being’ reboots the agenda for theology’s engagement with migration studies. The article seeks to demonstrate that the ‘hermeneutic of love’ in the Great Commandment leads us to accentuate a theology of ‘creation out of love’ ( creatio ex amore ), and this hermeneutic further questions the framework of common theological approaches to migration studies, urgently asking for more awareness when building a theological vocabulary of contemporary manifestations of human mobility. The discussion on ‘migrant churches’ points to some problems of the migration terminology used currently. The article ends by spelling out interdisciplinarity in terms of intradisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, and infradisciplinarity.

Vroom en daarom rechtzinnig. Brümmer over het primaat van de geloofsbeleving

Abstract: Pious and therefore orthodox. Brummer on the primacy of faith experience In a new (as yet unpublished) manuscript Vincent Brummer’s academic work takes a surprising turn, in that he moves from philosophical theology to historical theology. This paper shows that behind Brummer’s recent historical work (a sample of which has already been published in Brummer 2010) a strong systematic concern can still be discovered: Brummer wants to show how the theology of Nicolaas Hofmeyr (1827-1909), Andrew Murray (1828-1917) and their followers was largely determined by their spirituality (which focused on the experience of a personal relationship with God through Christ in the Spirit) rather than the other way around. As mystical theologians, and contrary to the contemporary (Kuyperian and Princetonian) confessionalists, piety was more important to them than orthodoxy – and this is indeed what we should learn from them. In response to this, I suggest that the relation between piety and orthodoxy is more of a synthetical than of an antithetical nature.

GIS as a heuristic tool to interpret ancient historiography: A case study to reconstruct what could plausibly have happened according to the accounts in New Testament texts.

Abstract: This article examines how GIS can be used as a heuristic tool to reconstruct spatial–temporal events from narratives in order to examine whether a scenario is conceivable within the narrative world. The narrative about Paul's escape from Berea (Acts 17:14–15) is used as a case study. Several interpretive issues related to spatial and temporal questions surround these texts. In the case study, three methods are applied: (a) least-cost path analysis on elevation data to construct journeys and travel times for Roman roads; (b) network analysis to find seafaring routes valid for ancient times; and (c) the integration of spatial and temporal data in a space-time cube. Our main finding is that the method yields insights into the spatial–temporal dynamics of the narrative. This helps a modern reader to better understand the narrative conceivability of a story in the mind of a first-century reader.