NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 53, Issue 1, 1999

Abstract Point of departure are the uses of the verb ‘to be’ in Greek. The author investigates the syntaxis of the statement in Exod. 3:14 LXX, the translation method used in it and the theology of the Greek Exodus (status of other gods; character of revelation, this as appearing particularly from the translation of the divine names). He concludes that the participle does not mean true or supreme being nor (real) existence bu Read More

Abstract There is still unclarity about the people against whom the first two Epistles of John are directed. The article presents a case to regard them as adherents of a specific Christology which saw Christ as a non-human, merely divine being. Historical evidence for the existence of this view can be found in the Acts of John, which must de dated before 150, as well as in Ignatius’ polemics against this view. An exegesis of the relev Read More

Abstract This article gives a survey of recent developments in the field of practical theology in Western Europe, with special attention to the situation in the Netherlands. Key issue in the chosen approach is modernity. Practical theology can be understood as a discipline of crisis. The changing situation since the sixties came into view in phenomena like secularization and the decline in the participation in worship, confe Read More

Abstract This article first presents a Dutch translation of the first atheist manifesto in world history, written by the Athenian scholar and despot Kritias at the end of the fifth century BCE, and then sketches the cultural background against which this surprising text has to be understood.