NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 60, Issue 1, 2006

This contribution is written on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift in 1946. It sketches the vicissitudes of the journal over this period, the policy of the editorial board, the relationship to the more ‘popular’ journal Vox Theologica, and the importance of Forschungsberichte and reviews of theological literature. The Dutch Theological Journal, originally, w Read More

The Gnostics claimed for themselves a special knowledge of God. They believed that the creator of heaven and earth was not identical with the supreme deity. This article examines the language that the Gnostics used to speak about the supreme God. One of the most frequent expressions applied to God was ‘The One Who Is’ or ‘You Who Are’: we will ask about the possible origins of these expressions in Exodus 3:13-14 and Read More

In this article it is argued that the idea of the ‘Good’ presupposes that it is taken in an absolute, contentless sense. In line with G.E. Moore’s open question argument, a position is adopted that envisages ‘good’ as transcending any description or intuition. The idea of the Good, it is further argued, manifests itself phenomenologically in the experience of the question of the Good. This question cannot be matched with any d Read More

The Acts of John contains two autobiographical speeches of the apostle in which he narrates his call as Jesus’ disciple. The first account is found in the context of a gospel narrative (cc. 88-105), which concentrates on the apostle’s exclusive experiences about his Master. Jesus appears in multiple forms, a phenomenon that has been labelled ‘polymorphy’ by previous scholarship. This article proposes that the epistemology Read More