Strangers and pilgrims on earth essays in honour of Abraham van de Beek / [edited] by E. van der Borght and P. van Geest.

Other author Beek, A. van de.
Other author Van der Borght, Ed. A. J. G., 1956-
Other author Geest, Paul van, 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2012]
Descriptionxxii, 911 pages ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Beek, A. van de.
Theology, Doctrinal.
Theology.

SeriesStudies in Reformed theology, 1571-4799 ; volume 22
Contents Preface: Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth / Paul van Geest, Eduardus Van der Borght -- Words of Greeting. Learned and Wise. A Word of Greeting / Adrianus Cardinal Simonis -- Church and State, Particularly in the Netherlands. An Essay in Honour of Abraham van de Beek / Arjan Plaisier -- pt. 1. Abraham van de Beek: An Appraisal. Bram van de Beek: Viator in Fide / Gerrit de Kruijf -- "Alexamenos Worships His God"? An Attempt to Understand Bram van de Beek's Christology as the Heart of his Theology / Dirkie Smit -- Bibliography Prof. Dr. Abraham van de Beek.
Contents pt. 2. 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 / Adelbert Denaux -- "The Word Became Jewish Flesh": Christology and the Question of the Suffering of God / Daniel L. Migliore -- The Christology in the Heidelberg Catechism and in the Canones of Dordt / Wim Verboom -- The Nature of Christ's Atonement. A Defence of Penal Substitution Theory / Nico Vorster -- Nietzsche's 'The Antichrist': An anti-Christian and anti-Jewish Document / 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 / André H. Drost -- Church and Israel, Church and the Jews in Hungarian Reformed Theology and Practice / Ferenc Szucs.
Contents Taoistic Implications for Christology: Grand Unity, datong and Valley-god, gushen / Jaeseung Cha -- The Reciprocal Relation between Anthropology and Christology / Martien E. Brinkman -- John Calvin and Abraham van de Beek on the Church and Israel, with Special Reference to Romans 9-11 / 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 / 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 / Paul van Geest -- Blasphemy and the Sinlessness of Jesus. In Dialogue with Abraham van de Beek / Johann Theron.
Contents pt. 3. Speaking of God: Eschatology. Cicero Meets Ambrose / Gerrit de Kruijf -- "It Shone with the Glory of the Lord". On Beauty and Christian Telos / Rian Venter -- Text, Tradition, Theology. The Example of the Book of Joel / Eep Talstra -- 'Euthanasia' in the Seventeenth Century: Ars Moriendi in Dutch Reformed Perspective / Jan Hoek -- Story, Eschatology and the Agnus Victor / Paul Wells -- Eschatology: Some Theological, Apologetic and Pastoral Reflections / Alan P.F. Sell -- Striking Similarities. The Eschatological Orientation of Calvin, Barth and Van de Beek / 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 / Gerard den Hoertog -- Radical Eschatology: Comparing Bram van de Beek and Wolfhart Pannenberg / Christiaan Mostert -- Unio mystica cum Christo glorificato. In Dialogue with Van de Beek about the Consequences of His Eschatology for Soteriology / Willem van Vlastuin.
Contents pt. 4. 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 / Eduardus A.J.G. Van der Borght -- The Church and the Unity of Humankind / Jacobus (Sjaak M.) van 't Kruis -- Two Church Fathers Review Charismatic Worship. Ambrosiaster's and Chrysostom's Comments on 1 Corinthians 11-14 / Riemer Roukema -- One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. Baptism of Children in the Letter to the Ephesians / Jacob van Beelen -- The Welcoming Table? The Lord's Supper, Exclusion, and the Reformed Tradition / Robert R. Vosloo -- The Teaching Concerning the Lord's Supper in the 1559 Hungarian Reformed Confession of Marosvásárhely (Transylvania) / Botond Kund Gudor, István Pásztori-Kupán -- Family-modeled Congregation / Tamás Juhász -- Preaching the Word of God / F. Gerrit Immink.
Contents Minister as Witness / Allan J. Janssen -- Nearing the Brink of Death? Dying, Renewing, and Newly Born Congregations in Protestant Amsterdam / Henk de Roest -- The Confessions and the Motif of the Stranger / Matthias Smalbrugge -- "As a Deer Longs for Flowing Streams ..." The Challenges of Postmodern Spirituality for Protestant Theology and the Church / Szilveszter Füsti-Molnár -- Strange People. Toward a Realistic Ecclesiology / René de Reuver -- Rome or Jerusalem? Bram van de Beek on the Unity of the Church / Henk van den Belt -- Living Law: Karl Barth, Bram van de Beek and the 2004 Protestant Church Order / 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 / H. (Bert) de Leede.
Contents pt. 5. Creation Theology. No Creation Stories in Holy Scripture. Von Rad's View on the Relation between Covenant and Creation Revisited / Harm Goris -- An Alternative Creation Belief: An Interpretation of Job 36:26-37:13 / 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 / J.H. (Amie) Van Wijk -- To Which the Whole Creation Moves. Creation Theology in Tennyson's In Memoriam / Frank Sawyer -- The Ebb and Flow of Creation Theology at Stellenbosch University: A Story in Six Chapters / Ernst M. Conradie, J. Christofff Pauw -- Should We Drop the Fall? On Taking Evil Seriously / Gijsbert van den Brink -- Epistemology, Ontology and Reciprocity. Bringing Bram van de Beek into Dialogue with John Polkinghorne / 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 / Daniël P. Veldsman.
Contents pt. 6. Freedom of Religion. A Christian Perspective on Human Dignity / J.(Koos) M. Vorster -- Religious Freedom and a South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms / Pieter Coertzen -- Divinely Approved Suicide-Terrorism? A Christian Critique of the Death of Samson / Bernard Reitsma -- Simul justus ac peccator and Non-Self and/or Non-Self. A Buddhist-Christian Dialogue / Hendrik M. Vroom -- Public Theology in a Suffering World / Nico Koopman.
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