Call for Submissions: Religion and Emancipation

11/02/202116/04/2021 ~ mariusvh ~ 1 reactie

The Emancipatory Promise of Inventive Theology 17-19 June 2021this event is being postponed to a date after the summer (t.b.a.) a workshop atLuxembourg School of Religion & Societyin cooperation withStrasbourg UniversityandVrije Universiteit Amsterdam(Amsterdam Mennonite Seminary andCentre for Contextual Biblical Interpretation) Argument Religions, each time in a specific manner, appear to be inhabited by contradictory doubleness. … Lees verder Call for Submissions: Religion and Emancipation

Watch: Mini-Conference Unsettling Otherness

26/01/202107/04/2021 ~ mariusvh ~ Plaats een reactie

https://youtu.be/s0kLpmx3d-8 26 February, 15:00-17:00 CET (Online) Unsettling OthernessTheopoetics and the future of interreligious encounter Catherine Keller, Paul Hedges, and Laura Schmidt Roberts in conversationwith Marius van Hoogstraten, Jean Ehret and Chris Doude van Troostwijk The Chair of Inventive Theology at the Mennonite Seminary/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society are proud … Lees verder Watch: Mini-Conference Unsettling Otherness

Religion and Emancipation: Two Encounters and a Workshop (pre-announcement)

30/10/202016/04/2021 ~ mariusvh ~ Plaats een reactie

Strasbourg, 8-9 April 2021 (Language: French)Amsterdam, 14-15 June 2021 (Language: English)Luxembourg, 17-19 June 2021 (Language: English) These events are being postponed to a date after the summer (t.b.a.) Today, traditionalist and fundamentalist movements in various religions seems to gain influence in the most retrograde and anti-democratic shapes, which push them to reject any vision on … Lees verder Religion and Emancipation: Two Encounters and a Workshop (pre-announcement)

The Anabaptist Moment

18/09/202009/11/2020 ~ mariusvh ~ Plaats een reactie

Improper Beginnings, Ecclesiopolitical Decision, and Braitmichel’s Ominous Silence On a winter night in 1525, Conrad Grebel, Georg Blaurock, Felix Mantz, and a number of others gathered in a home in Zurich, prayed, and then baptized each other. The event solidified their breach with the reformer Zwingli and was in an important sense the beginning of … Lees verder The Anabaptist Moment

About

29/07/202012/11/2020 ~ mariusvh ~ Plaats een reactie

The visiting professorship for Inventive Theology was instituted in 2015 to give substance to the possible position and role of progressive and liberal faith in a secularized time. Through research, education and public lectures, we seek the renewed conversation with tradition, science and culture. To believe freely is "non-dogmatic," but what is it affirmatively? And … Lees verder About