The work of the Spirit of God is a vibrant and much discussed topic in many contemporary Christian communities worldwide. Apparently, the Spirit is moving. Theological reflection on this phenomenon has even given rise to what is often called a ‘pneumatological renaissance’. This volume not only takes stock of these remarkable developments, but also probes some of their hidden aspects and highlights avenues for future exploration. It contains a wide-ranging but coherent assortment of essays, covering the five relations of the Holy Ghost distinguished already in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed: how does the Spirit of God relate to the Bible, to the Christ, to the human person, to the church and to the world?
These essays are written as a tribute to the many inspiring theological contributions of prof. Cornelis van der Kooi on the occasion of his retirement as Professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he taught from 1992 until 2018.
Contributors are: Henk A. Bakker, Abraham van de Beek, Erik A. de Boer, Carl J. Bosma, Gijsbert van den Brink, Martien E. Brinkman, Gerard C. den Hertog, Arnold Huijgen, Gerrit C. van de Kamp, Miranda Klaver, Akke van der Kooi, Margriet van der Kooi-Dijkstra, Bruce L. McCormack, Richard J. Mouw, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman, Eep Talstra, Benno van den Toren, Jan Veenhof, Willem van Vlastuin, Pieter Vos, Michael Welker, Cory Willson, Maarten Wisse.
Author Biography:
Gijsbert van den Brink is Professor for Theology and Science at the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has held teaching positions at the universities of Groningen and Utrecht respectively before becoming a full-time lecturer in 2001 in Amsterdam. He spent the academic year 2010-21011 as Houston Witherspoon Fellow in Theology and Science at the Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton NJ. His latest work is on Reformed theology and evolutionary theory.
Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman is professor of Reception History of the Hebrew Bible in Antiquity at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She investigated Targum Samuel in her dissertation, The Targum of Samuel (Leiden: Brill, 2002). In recent years she has focused on the reception history of the Targum within Christian scholarship of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. This is concluded with the publication of Justifying Christian Aramaism (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
Maarten Wisse Ph.D. Utrecht University (2003), Habil. University of Tübingen (2011), taught systematic theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2009-2017) and is now Professor of Dogmatics at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam. He has published in the areas of theological hermeneutics, Trinitarian theology and Reformed systematic theology. His most recent book is Trinitarian Theology beyond Participation: Augustine’s De Trinitate and Contemporary Theology (T&T Clark International, 2011).
