Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth
Essays in Honour of Abraham van de Beek
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2011
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638 pages
978-90-04-21884-0 (ISBN)
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The title Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth (Hebrews 11:13) captures well the eschatological nature of the christology which has become so central in the theological enterprise of Prof. dr. Abraham van de Beek. At the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday in October 2011, many of his former colleagues and students honour him in this Festschrift with a contribution to one of the themes that have been central to his theology: christology, theology of Israel, eschatology, theology of the church, creation theology, and freedom of religion. The volume opens with an article providing an overview of his theological development, one probing his deepest theological intentions, and with an up to date bibliography.
Contributors include: Martien Brinkman, Johan Buitendag, Jaesung Cha, Pieter Coertzen, Ernst Conradie, Gerrit de Kruijf, Bert de Leede, Adelbert Denaux, Gerard den Hertog, Rene de Reuver, Henk de Roest, Andre Drost, Szilveszter Fuesti-Molnar, Harm Goris, Botond Gudor, John Hesselink, Jan Hoek, Gerrit Immink, Allan Janssen, Tamas Juhasz, Nico Koopman, Daniel Migliore, ChristIan Mostert, Istvan Pasztori-Kupan, Christoff Pauw, Arjan Plaisier, Ad Prosman, Bernhard Reitsma, Riemer Roukema, Frank Sawyer, Alan Sell, Matthias Smalbrugge, Gerrit Singgih, Dirkie Smit, Adrianus Cardinal Simonis, Ferenc Szucs, Eep Talstra, Wessel ten Boom, Johann Theron, Jacob van Beelen, Henk van den Belt, Gijsbert van den Brink, Leon van den Broeke, Eduardus Van der Borght, Kees van der Kooi, Paul van Geest, Sjaak van 't Kruis, Willem van Vlastuin, Amie van Wyk, Danie Veldsman, Rian Venter, Wim Verboom, Koos Vorster, Nico Vorster, Robert Vosloo, Henk Vroom, Paul Wells.
Contributors include: Martien Brinkman, Johan Buitendag, Jaesung Cha, Pieter Coertzen, Ernst Conradie, Gerrit de Kruijf, Bert de Leede, Adelbert Denaux, Gerard den Hertog, Rene de Reuver, Henk de Roest, Andre Drost, Szilveszter Fuesti-Molnar, Harm Goris, Botond Gudor, John Hesselink, Jan Hoek, Gerrit Immink, Allan Janssen, Tamas Juhasz, Nico Koopman, Daniel Migliore, ChristIan Mostert, Istvan Pasztori-Kupan, Christoff Pauw, Arjan Plaisier, Ad Prosman, Bernhard Reitsma, Riemer Roukema, Frank Sawyer, Alan Sell, Matthias Smalbrugge, Gerrit Singgih, Dirkie Smit, Adrianus Cardinal Simonis, Ferenc Szucs, Eep Talstra, Wessel ten Boom, Johann Theron, Jacob van Beelen, Henk van den Belt, Gijsbert van den Brink, Leon van den Broeke, Eduardus Van der Borght, Kees van der Kooi, Paul van Geest, Sjaak van 't Kruis, Willem van Vlastuin, Amie van Wyk, Danie Veldsman, Rian Venter, Wim Verboom, Koos Vorster, Nico Vorster, Robert Vosloo, Henk Vroom, Paul Wells.
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All those interested in christology, theology of Israel, eschatologie, ecclesiology, creation theology and freedom of religion and more specifically the theology of Abraham van de Beek
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Eduardus Van der Borght is Desmond Tutu Chair on reconciliation and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at VU University Amsterdam.
Paul van Geest is Professor of Church History and History of Theology at Tilburg University and Extraordinary Professor of Augustinian Studies at VU University Amsterdam. He is also director of the Centre for Patristic Studies at these universities.
Paul van Geest is Professor of Church History and History of Theology at Tilburg University and Extraordinary Professor of Augustinian Studies at VU University Amsterdam. He is also director of the Centre for Patristic Studies at these universities.
Content
Preface: Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth ... xiii
Paul van Geest, Eduardus Van der Borght
WORDS OF GREETING
Learned and Wise. A Word of Greeting ... 3
Adrianus Cardinal Simonis
Church and State, Particularly in the Netherlands. An Essay in Honour of Abraham van de Beek ... 7
Arjan Plaisier
PART ONE
ABRAHAM VAN DE BEEK: AN APPRAISAL
Bram van de Beek: Viator in Fide ... 17
Gerrit de Kruijf
"Alexamenos Worships His God"? An Attempt to Understand Bram van de Beek's Christology as the Heart of his Theology ... 37
Dirkie Smit
Bibliography Prof. Dr. Abraham van de Beek ... 59
PART TWO
SPEAKING OF GOD: CHRIST AND ISRAEL
Stranger on Earth and Divine Guest: Human and Divine Hospitality in the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts ... 87
Adelbert Denaux
"The Word Became Jewish Flesh": Christology and the Question of the Sufffering of God ... 101
Daniel L. Migliore
The Christology in the Heidelberg Catechism and in the Canones of Dordt ... 115
Wim Verboom
The Nature of Christ's Atonement. A Defence of Penal Substitution Theory ... 129
Nico Vorster
Nietzsche's 'The Antichrist': An anti-Christian and anti-Jewish Document ... 147
A.A.A. (Ad) Prosman
Has God Changed? An Inquiry on the Relationship between God and Israel in the Theology of A.A. van Ruler ... 161
Andre H. Drost
Church and Israel, Church and the Jews in Hungarian Reformed Theology and Practice ... 175
Ferenc Szucs
Taoistic Implications for Christology: Grand Unity, datong (??) and Valley-god, gushen (??) ... 189
Jaeseung Cha
The Reciprocal Relation between Anthropology and Christology ... 209
Martien E. Brinkman
John Calvin and Abraham van de Beek on the Church and Israel-with Special Reference to Romans 9-11 ... 223
I. John Hesselink
Israel as a Problem. The Promise of the Land by Bram van de Beek in Confrontation with the Palestinian Kairos Document and Augustine ... 237
Wessel ten Boom
Some Developments in Contemporary Protestant Christology in the Netherlands in the Light of the Schola Augustiniana. Abraham van de Beek and Harry Kuitert Evaluated ... 255
Paul van Geest
Blasphemy and the Sinlessness of Jesus. In Dialogue with Abraham van de Beek ... 265
Johann Theron
PART THREE
SPEAKING OF GOD: ESCHATOLOGY
Cicero Meets Ambrose ... 279
Gerrit de Kruijf
"It Shone with the Glory of the Lord". On Beauty and Christian Telos ... 295
Rian Venter
Text, Tradition, Theology. The Example of the Book of Joel ... 309
Eep Talstra
'Euthanasia' in the Seventeenth Century: Ars Moriendi in Dutch Reformed Perspective ... 329
Jan Hoek
Story, Eschatology and the Agnus Victor ... 343
Paul Wells
Eschatology: Some Theological, Apologetic and Pastoral Reflections ... 357
Alan P.F. Sell
Striking Similarities. The Eschatological Orientation of Calvin, Barth and Van de Beek ... 371
Cornelis van der Kooi
Ascetism Only, or Ethics as Well? Oepke Noordmans' View of Eschatological Ascetism and Ethics as a Challenge for Bram van de Beek ... 381
Gerard den Hertog
Radical Eschatology: Comparing Bram van de Beek and Wolfhart Pannenberg ... 381
Christiaan Mostert
Unio mystica cum Christo glorifijicato. In Dialogue with Van de Beek about the Consequences of His Eschatology for Soteriology ... 413
Willem van Vlastuin
PART FOUR
THEOLOGY OF THE CHURCH
No Longer Strangers or Pilgrims in the Church? Socio-cultural Identities in the Faith and Order Document: Nature and Mission of the Church ... 431
Eduardus A.J.G. Van der Borght
The Church and the Unity of Humankind ... 445
Jacobus (Sjaak M.) van 't Kruis
Two Church Fathers Review Charismatic Worship. Ambrosiaster's and Chrysostom's Comments on 1 Corinthians 11-14 ... 457
Riemer Roukema
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. Baptism of Children in the Letter to the Ephesians ... 471
Jacob van Beelen
The Welcoming Table? The Lord's Supper, Exclusion, and the Reformed Tradition ... 483
Robert R. Vosloo
The Teaching Concerning the Lord's Supper in the 1559 Hungarian Reformed Confession of Marosvasarhely (Transylvania) ... 503
Botond Kund Gudor, Istvan Pasztori-Kupan
Family-modeled Congregation ... 523
Tamas Juhasz
Preaching the Word of God ... 535
F. Gerrit Immink
Minister as Witness ... 547
Allan J. Janssen
Nearing the Brink of Death? Dying, Renewing, and Newly Born Congregations in Protestant Amsterdam ... 557
Henk de Roest
The Confessions and the Motif of the Stranger ... 573
Matthias Smalbrugge
"As a Deer Longs for Flowing Streams..." The Challenges of Postmodern Spirituality for Protestant Theology and the Church ... 591
Szilveszter Fuesti-Molnar
Strange People. Toward a Realistic Ecclesiology ... 609
Rene de Reuver
Rome or Jerusalem? Bram van de Beek on the Unity of the Church ... 623
Henk van den Belt
Living Law: Karl Barth, Bram van de Beek and the 2004 Protestant Church Order ... 635
Leon van den Broeke
And They Recognized Him in the Breaking of the Bread: Van de Beek's Contribution to the Necessary Rethinking on the Protestant Eucharistic Practice ... 651
H. (Bert) de Leede
PART FIVE
CREATION THEOLOGY
No Creation Stories in Holy Scripture. Von Rad's View on the Relation between Covenant and Creation Revisited ... 669
Harm Goris
An Alternative Creation Belief: An Interpretation of Job 36:26-37:13 ... 683
E. Gerrit Singgih
"What was God Doing before Making Heaven and Earth?" Theological Reflections on the Doctrine of God in Traditional African Religion and the North African Theologian Aurelius Augustine ... 697
J.H. (Amie) Van Wijk
To Which the Whole Creation Moves. Creation Theology in Tennyson's In Memoriam ... 717
Frank Sawyer
The Ebb and Flow of Creation Theology at Stellenbosch University: A Story in Six Chapters ... 739
Ernst M. Conradie and J. Christofff Pauw
Should We Drop the Fall? On Taking Evil Seriously ... 761
Gijsbert van den Brink
Epistemology, Ontology and Reciprocity. Bringing Bram van de Beek into Dialogue with John Polkinghorne ... 779
Johan Buitendag
With a Little Help from Our Friend! A Systematic-Theological Appreciation of Bram van de Beek's Theology of Creation as Contribution to the Contemporary Theology-Science Dialogue ... 797
Daniel P. Veldsman
PART SIX
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
A Christian Perspective on Human Dignity ... 817
J.(Koos) M. Vorster
Religious Freedom and a South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms ... 833
Pieter Coertzen
Divinely Approved Suicide-Terrorism? A Christian Critique of the Death of Samson ... 853
Bernard Reitsma
Simul justus ac peccator and Non-Self and/or Non-Self. A Buddhist-Christian Dialogue ... 867
Hendrik M. Vroom
Public Theology in a Sufffering World? ... 887
Nico Koopman
List of Contributors ... 897
Index ... 905
Paul van Geest, Eduardus Van der Borght
WORDS OF GREETING
Learned and Wise. A Word of Greeting ... 3
Adrianus Cardinal Simonis
Church and State, Particularly in the Netherlands. An Essay in Honour of Abraham van de Beek ... 7
Arjan Plaisier
PART ONE
ABRAHAM VAN DE BEEK: AN APPRAISAL
Bram van de Beek: Viator in Fide ... 17
Gerrit de Kruijf
"Alexamenos Worships His God"? An Attempt to Understand Bram van de Beek's Christology as the Heart of his Theology ... 37
Dirkie Smit
Bibliography Prof. Dr. Abraham van de Beek ... 59
PART TWO
SPEAKING OF GOD: CHRIST AND ISRAEL
Stranger on Earth and Divine Guest: Human and Divine Hospitality in the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts ... 87
Adelbert Denaux
"The Word Became Jewish Flesh": Christology and the Question of the Sufffering of God ... 101
Daniel L. Migliore
The Christology in the Heidelberg Catechism and in the Canones of Dordt ... 115
Wim Verboom
The Nature of Christ's Atonement. A Defence of Penal Substitution Theory ... 129
Nico Vorster
Nietzsche's 'The Antichrist': An anti-Christian and anti-Jewish Document ... 147
A.A.A. (Ad) Prosman
Has God Changed? An Inquiry on the Relationship between God and Israel in the Theology of A.A. van Ruler ... 161
Andre H. Drost
Church and Israel, Church and the Jews in Hungarian Reformed Theology and Practice ... 175
Ferenc Szucs
Taoistic Implications for Christology: Grand Unity, datong (??) and Valley-god, gushen (??) ... 189
Jaeseung Cha
The Reciprocal Relation between Anthropology and Christology ... 209
Martien E. Brinkman
John Calvin and Abraham van de Beek on the Church and Israel-with Special Reference to Romans 9-11 ... 223
I. John Hesselink
Israel as a Problem. The Promise of the Land by Bram van de Beek in Confrontation with the Palestinian Kairos Document and Augustine ... 237
Wessel ten Boom
Some Developments in Contemporary Protestant Christology in the Netherlands in the Light of the Schola Augustiniana. Abraham van de Beek and Harry Kuitert Evaluated ... 255
Paul van Geest
Blasphemy and the Sinlessness of Jesus. In Dialogue with Abraham van de Beek ... 265
Johann Theron
PART THREE
SPEAKING OF GOD: ESCHATOLOGY
Cicero Meets Ambrose ... 279
Gerrit de Kruijf
"It Shone with the Glory of the Lord". On Beauty and Christian Telos ... 295
Rian Venter
Text, Tradition, Theology. The Example of the Book of Joel ... 309
Eep Talstra
'Euthanasia' in the Seventeenth Century: Ars Moriendi in Dutch Reformed Perspective ... 329
Jan Hoek
Story, Eschatology and the Agnus Victor ... 343
Paul Wells
Eschatology: Some Theological, Apologetic and Pastoral Reflections ... 357
Alan P.F. Sell
Striking Similarities. The Eschatological Orientation of Calvin, Barth and Van de Beek ... 371
Cornelis van der Kooi
Ascetism Only, or Ethics as Well? Oepke Noordmans' View of Eschatological Ascetism and Ethics as a Challenge for Bram van de Beek ... 381
Gerard den Hertog
Radical Eschatology: Comparing Bram van de Beek and Wolfhart Pannenberg ... 381
Christiaan Mostert
Unio mystica cum Christo glorifijicato. In Dialogue with Van de Beek about the Consequences of His Eschatology for Soteriology ... 413
Willem van Vlastuin
PART FOUR
THEOLOGY OF THE CHURCH
No Longer Strangers or Pilgrims in the Church? Socio-cultural Identities in the Faith and Order Document: Nature and Mission of the Church ... 431
Eduardus A.J.G. Van der Borght
The Church and the Unity of Humankind ... 445
Jacobus (Sjaak M.) van 't Kruis
Two Church Fathers Review Charismatic Worship. Ambrosiaster's and Chrysostom's Comments on 1 Corinthians 11-14 ... 457
Riemer Roukema
One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. Baptism of Children in the Letter to the Ephesians ... 471
Jacob van Beelen
The Welcoming Table? The Lord's Supper, Exclusion, and the Reformed Tradition ... 483
Robert R. Vosloo
The Teaching Concerning the Lord's Supper in the 1559 Hungarian Reformed Confession of Marosvasarhely (Transylvania) ... 503
Botond Kund Gudor, Istvan Pasztori-Kupan
Family-modeled Congregation ... 523
Tamas Juhasz
Preaching the Word of God ... 535
F. Gerrit Immink
Minister as Witness ... 547
Allan J. Janssen
Nearing the Brink of Death? Dying, Renewing, and Newly Born Congregations in Protestant Amsterdam ... 557
Henk de Roest
The Confessions and the Motif of the Stranger ... 573
Matthias Smalbrugge
"As a Deer Longs for Flowing Streams..." The Challenges of Postmodern Spirituality for Protestant Theology and the Church ... 591
Szilveszter Fuesti-Molnar
Strange People. Toward a Realistic Ecclesiology ... 609
Rene de Reuver
Rome or Jerusalem? Bram van de Beek on the Unity of the Church ... 623
Henk van den Belt
Living Law: Karl Barth, Bram van de Beek and the 2004 Protestant Church Order ... 635
Leon van den Broeke
And They Recognized Him in the Breaking of the Bread: Van de Beek's Contribution to the Necessary Rethinking on the Protestant Eucharistic Practice ... 651
H. (Bert) de Leede
PART FIVE
CREATION THEOLOGY
No Creation Stories in Holy Scripture. Von Rad's View on the Relation between Covenant and Creation Revisited ... 669
Harm Goris
An Alternative Creation Belief: An Interpretation of Job 36:26-37:13 ... 683
E. Gerrit Singgih
"What was God Doing before Making Heaven and Earth?" Theological Reflections on the Doctrine of God in Traditional African Religion and the North African Theologian Aurelius Augustine ... 697
J.H. (Amie) Van Wijk
To Which the Whole Creation Moves. Creation Theology in Tennyson's In Memoriam ... 717
Frank Sawyer
The Ebb and Flow of Creation Theology at Stellenbosch University: A Story in Six Chapters ... 739
Ernst M. Conradie and J. Christofff Pauw
Should We Drop the Fall? On Taking Evil Seriously ... 761
Gijsbert van den Brink
Epistemology, Ontology and Reciprocity. Bringing Bram van de Beek into Dialogue with John Polkinghorne ... 779
Johan Buitendag
With a Little Help from Our Friend! A Systematic-Theological Appreciation of Bram van de Beek's Theology of Creation as Contribution to the Contemporary Theology-Science Dialogue ... 797
Daniel P. Veldsman
PART SIX
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
A Christian Perspective on Human Dignity ... 817
J.(Koos) M. Vorster
Religious Freedom and a South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms ... 833
Pieter Coertzen
Divinely Approved Suicide-Terrorism? A Christian Critique of the Death of Samson ... 853
Bernard Reitsma
Simul justus ac peccator and Non-Self and/or Non-Self. A Buddhist-Christian Dialogue ... 867
Hendrik M. Vroom
Public Theology in a Sufffering World? ... 887
Nico Koopman
List of Contributors ... 897
Index ... 905