A blog by Josh de Keijzer.
The Influence of Luther in "Act and Being"
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Deconstruction starts with the realization that all of reality is constructed. This is so because we can only...
Religious Trauma is a real thing. I know it. I feel it. I see it in others. And...
One big reason why Christianity has gotten a bad rap in post-world WWII Europe is that increasingly it...
I know this sounds outrageous, but these were the words that popped-up in my head when I heard...
Emotional and spiritual abuse in the church often results from wrong ideas about how Divine Authority functions within...
An article appeared a few days ago in the evangelical section of Patheos that really irked me. It...
Theocracy, that form of government in which God governs a nation directly through divine command, is hot again....
In this essay I attempt to make sense of the Corona crisis from a theological point of view, taking into account the harsh reality of survival of the fittest that...
On January 17, Ron Sider, an evangelical theologian famous for his insistence that rich Christians make work of addressing poverty, posted on a piece on his blog titled “STILL EVANGELICAL...
Christmas 2019. Christians around the world celebrate that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Feelings of wonder fill us and hope, perhaps, that this enfleshment will somehow materialize...
Introduction Martin Luther’s theology of the cross though central to the German Reformation did not manage to remain a big influence in the Protestant tradition. Traditions other than Lutheranism sprang...
The systemization of God leads to harm being done to people in the areas of sexual ethics, emotional dependency, and communal justice. In the previous installmentof my two-part series on...
Emotional and spiritual abuse in the church often results from wrong ideas about how Divine Authority functions within the faith community. It is often wielded as a tool to suppress,...
Deconstruction starts with the realization that all of reality is constructed. This is so because we can only see, i.e. understand, what we can place in an interpretative structure of...
I address a number of topics on this website. My main concern is to be a theologian who makes the content of the Christian faith concrete and relevant for our...
“Christenen voor Islam wil hetzelfde doen voor de Islam wat de organisatie Christenen voor Israël al jaren doet voor het land Israël. We willen de Islam ondersteunen.” Aan het woord...
I sometimes bend over backward to find ways in which faith can still be relevant in our secular post-Christian society (just as I bend over backward to understand why I...
Ik breek me soms het hoofd over hoe het geloof nog relevant kan zijn in onze seculaire post-christelijke maatschappij. (Net zoals ik me soms het hoofd breek over waarom ik...
I’ve been looking for ways to describe the current politico-economic order of Western capitalism in religious terms. The task of political theology is to bring theological thought and analysis to...
A reasonably friendly article appeared on Vox: The rise of the star-studded, Instagram-friendly evangelical church: Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, and the “cool” Christian celebrity. The article mainly discusses Pratt and...
An article appeared a few days ago in the evangelical section of Patheos that really irked me. It has the rather nasty title: ‘I Love Jesus But Not the Church’...
In anticipation of the publication of my dissertation this summer, here is a brief, albeit nerdy, summary of the argument. I set out to argue that Bonhoeffer’s “Act and Being”...