European Journal of Theology

The present issue is a themed issue about the study of revivalist Protestantism. Some of its articles are based on papers read at the conference of the European Academy of Religion on Religion from the inside in 2023. The opening editorial by...

I was born in 1967 in the small Palatinate town of Kusel in Germany. The first years of my life were characterised by constant moves – from Düsseldorf to the greater Frankfurt area and a stay near London until in 1972 our family left for Sumatra...

This issue of the European Journal of Theology opens with a contribution by Wolfgang Köhler, who shows how the theme of hardening the people’s hearts is important in the various parts of the Book of Isaiah. Tracing how the theme develops, Kohler...

I was born in 1961, in the harbour city of Constanța, Romania, in a Baptist family. Living in a Communist country, I knew from youth what it meant to be followed by the secret police, to be denied social and professional promotion, and yet to...

This issue of the European Journal of Theology contains two papers read at FEET’s online conference on Karl Barth. Romanian Octavian Baban offers a detailed and critical aassessment of Barth’s exegesis in the Römerbrief after 100 years. Baban...

Yannick Imbert is professor of apologetics at Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence, France. He earned his doctorate at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia (USA) studying J.R.R. Tolkien’s theory of imagination. Dr Imbert has published...

This issue of the European Journal of Theology contains two of the papers from the 2022 conference of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians in Prague: Christian Stettler investigates biblical texts that speak of the resurrection of...

The recent article ‘The Invisible Women. Female Participation in Church Leadership in the Dutch Evangelical Movement’ by Laura Dijkhuizen is now available for free on the website of the Journal’s publisher:

...

Laura Dijkhuizen is the Academic Dean of the School of Theology within the Foundation Academy of Amsterdam, an institution focusing on people with a migration background. She is also the vice-president of the Jethro Foundation and teaches basic...

Dr. Robert Lilleaasen, head of research and associate professor in Practical Theology at Fjellhaug International University College in Oslo, Norway, introduces himself.

In the current issue of EJT I have written an article on religious freedom in...

In this issue of the European Journal of Theology you will find an article on a current issue in Norway by a Norwegian and an article on an Italian from the past by an Italian. Robert Lilleaasen provides background to the recent Norwegian law on...

Featured author: Professor Geert Lorein An interview

Why did you study theology?

Well, I started with Classics at the Katholieke Universiteit (Catholic University) Leuven, because being a teacher of Greek and Latin seemed to me an interesting and...

European Journal of Theology Issue 30.2 (October 2021)

This issue of the European Journal of Theology has the smell of the Low Countries. It so happens that most articles are somehow connected to The Netherlands and Belgium, and two even interact...

Uniquely, this issue of the European Journal of Theology contains not one but two editorials. The first is a response to the pandemic which is holding Europe in its grip: what does this mean for the church?, asks Johannes Reimer. Our second...

Dr Meiken Buchholz is assistant professor of Missiology at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Giessen, Germany, and at Fjellhaug International University College, Oslo, Norway. She regularly visits the China Lutheran Seminary, Taiwan, as guest...

This is the first issue of the European Journal of Theology which has been produced by the new publisher, Amsterdam University Press (AUP). The journal looks very different indeed, both inside and outside, yet the editorial board, aims and...

Issue 29.1 of the European Journal of Theology contains six major articles and the usual book reviews. Svetlana Khobnya offers a missionary reading of 1 Peter, arguing that even the instructions to slaves, husbands and wives (the household codes)...

The new issue contains no fewer than eight articles, written by authors from many different European countries. The Editorial is by the Dane Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen, a member of the editorial board. The issue then opens with two articles on Paul:...

Dr Klaus Vibe is assistant professor in New Testament at Fjellhaug International University College, Aarhus, Denmark. His article on Paul and Greek paideia is published in the October 2019 issue of the European Journal of Theology.

I was born in...

Rev. Pavel Černý, ThD is a Pastor, seminary tutor, missiologist and ecumenical worker. He teaches at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Prague, Czech Republic and lectures at the various missiological and ecumenical conferences. His article...

Dr. Svetlana Khobnya is Lecturer in Biblical Studies, with specialisms in New Testament, Biblical Languages and Theological German, at the Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. She is a member of the Tyndale Fellowship, the British New...

Ad de Bruijne is professor of Ethics and Spirituality at the Reformed Theological University Kampen (The Netherlands). This institute is one of the birth places of Dutch Neocalvinism (Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck, Klaas Schilder, Jochem Douma)....

Dr Walter Hilbrands was born in the area of East Frisia, Germany, in 1965. He grew up in a reformed church and studied theology in Krelingen (Germany), at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Giessen and at the Protestant Theological University...

Dr. Helge Stadelmann is professor of Practical Theology at the Freie Theologische Hochschule Giessen / Germany and at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven / Belgium. He was born in Nürnberg, Germany, in 1952 and studied Theology and...

Professor Dr Ján Liguš is chairperson of the Department of Practical Theology, Ecumenism and Communication at the Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague. His article “Master Jan Hus – Obedience or Resistance” appears in the April...

Bård Eirik Hallesby Norheim (* 1973) is associate professor of practical theology and Head of Department for Theology, Religion and Philosophy at NLA University College in Bergen, Norway. He serves as the President of the IASYM (International...

Featured Author - Professor Dr Christoph Stenschke Since 2001, I have been living and teal’ching at a seminary in Germany, some 50 km east of Cologne, called the Biblisch-Theologische Akademie Wiedenest (see ...

Dr Bernhard J.G. Reitsma is professor by special appointment at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and professor at the Christian University of Applied Science in Ede, the Netherlands. He is guest lecturer at the ETF in Leuven, Belgium, and at...

Dr. Markus Zehnder is professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California, visiting professor at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven, Belgium, and professor II at Ansgar University...

Free article

Dr. Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen is assistant professor at the Lutheran School of Theology in Aarhus, Denmark, adjunct professor at MF Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo, Norway, and chief editor of Danish Journal of Theological Studies. His article “...

Dr Roland Deines is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Nottingham. His articles, Did Matthew Know He was Writing Scripture? Part 1, and Part 2, were published in the October 2013 and April 2014 issues of European Journal of...