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On 18 February, after 203 days of flight, the US robot ‘Perseverance’ touched down on Mars. The goal of its mission is to explore the surface of the planet for the next two years. The rover’s name...

Monday 19 April 2021 Video conference organised by the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (FEET) at 2.00–5.00pm (Continental Time; 3.00–6.00pm Eastern European Time, 1.00–4.00pm GMT)...

Football fans all over the world mourned when the Argentine footballer Diego Maradona passed away on November 25th. In response a commentator at my age wrote something that stuck with me: ‘You don’...

Perhaps the most famous of the United Kingdom’s patriotic songs is ‘Rule Britannia’. Affirming that ‘Britons never will be slaves’, it declares that while other ‘tyrants’ will rise and fall,...

The first issue of the European Journal of Theology has been published in new layout under the Amsterdam University Press. Vol. 29.2, 2020.

Faith and works Among the Protestant Churches, heirs of the Reformation, good deeds have no place in the process of redemption. Indeed, salvation is a free gift of God to all those who realise that...

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...

Conference topic: “Discerning the Work of the Holy Spirit in and Through the Church” Friday, Aug 28, 2020 15:00 – 17:00 Introduction and address by the chairman of FEET, Prof. Pierre Berthoud...

An electronic FEET membership form has been installed on this website. You will find more details on About page. If you are considering joining FEET, feel free to use it.

Karol Wojtyła (1920–2005), from better known as Pope John Paul II, was one of the most influential men of the twentieth century. The centenary of his birth is a useful opportunity to reflect on his...

The coronavirus pandemic is currently affecting most countries of the world in a crisis that was hardly known until now. According to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, there are more than...

Read the Spring 2020 Newsletter with more information about FEET video conference!

I am very sorry to announce now that the FEET conference cannot take place as a present or physical conference in Prague this August due to the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This...

The World Evangelical Alliance’s Evangelical Review of Theology is becoming a free online journal, starting with its August 2020 issue. WEA leaders and other prominent Christians will address...

Dear members and friends of FEET, AlphaGraphics, the publisher of our journal, the European Journal of Theology (EJT), has decided to stop printing it. The reason for their decision is not that the...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

See attached PDF file for detailed agenda, etc. Please note, that the conference has been changed into a video online meeting. The agenda has been shortened, so this brochure is informative only.

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,...

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A couple of weeks ago, I was conducting a worship service with students and colleagues. When collecting topics for the intercessory prayer, I invited them to pray for the political leaders of the...

Present-day Evangelicalism has a strange relationship with history. On the one extreme there are those who endorse a ‘gap theory’, whereby their experience of the Christian life has little if...

Jesus gave his disciples the order to proclaim the kingdom of God: ‘As you go, proclaim this message: “The kingdom of Heaven has come near.”’ (Matthew 10:7) Just as he did and as John the Baptist...

Several years ago, when I was a young pastor serving a church in the western part of the Netherlands, a lady in the congregation asked me to preach about the wedding garment. It took me some time...

The Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (FEET) aims to advance the Christian Religion in Europe through the study of Evangelical Theology in a spirit of loyalty to the Bible. Our next...

Proselytism has become a bad word. Like fundamentalism or exclusivism, in today’s religious language, only the negative overtones of the term are retained and are used to convey a derogatory...

One of the pleasures of travel is that, one hopes, it broadens the mind; we begin to see a world through a different lens as we encounter cultures and situations very different from those we call ‘...

In Psalm 146, in between calls to “Praise the LORD”, the God who thrones on the Zion, we are given the following advice: Do not put your trust in princes, in mortals, in whom there is no help. When...

As the celebration of the descent of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost is likely to revive the old discussion between cessationism and continuationism. In sermons and meditations, many ministers of the...

Central to the Christian faith is the conviction that the Bible has primacy in all matters of faith and conduct. Scripture is the written, divinely inspired Good News of Jesus Christ and therefore...

I have been reflecting recently on a paradox. The two nations that we tend to identify as ‘super powers’ (the USA and Russia) both have avowedly Christian leaders and their power is supported, to a...

Peaceful coexistence of world religions is very important in these days and inter-religious dialogue is deeply rooted in the ground of the theology of mission. Nevertheless, it is important to...

A fundamental question Paul Gauguin has painted a famous painting entitled, “What are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?” The artist’s question relates to the origin as well as to the...

Two weeks ago, I listened to 77 psalms in one day. I had this wonderful experience in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where these psalms were performed as part of the annual Festival of Early Music. The...

Seventy years ago, in April 1947 the Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth, gave an Easter sermon in which he expressed his shame about the fact that even we as theologians have great difficulties...

Wandering the streets of Lutherstadt Wittenberg at the FEET Conference last year, I was struck by the many plaques that celebrated famous Protestants who had, at some time or another, lived in the...

The missiologist and theologian Jonathan J. Bonk wrote, ‘Theology can be liberated from cultural bounds only through mission.’ This understanding is hardly new. We can verify its validity on the...

The Western world has moved from, or is currently in transition from, an era of Christendom to an era of post-Christendom. Many theologians have presented substantial theological considerations for...

The electoral victory of Donald Trump, which many experts had not foreseen, testifies to a crisis in the democratic system of western countries. Trump won, although the leaders of the Republican...

Introduction I recently heard a sermon that helped me understand why some of the so-called historical Protestant Churches are caught up in doctrinal and ethical relativism and confusion. The pastor...

The year 2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. In some ecumenical circles the chosen word is not ‘celebration’ but ‘commemoration’. Official Roman...

By the time this blog is read the United Kingdom will have decided whether it remains within the European Union, the blood-letting within the British Conservative Party will have commenced and both...

The Czech Fellowship of Evangelical Theologians has continued the direction laid forth in the FEET 2014 Conference in Paris. Dr. Chris Wright and his explanation of Ethics, Mission and Evangelism...

n my experience, churches are often closed communities which do not easily reach outsiders with the good message about Jesus. Some recent examples: 1) After much discussion a church opened its...

I have for years had the privilege of serving in Africa. Reading the Scriptures in other languages always brings out something new and exciting. Recently some of us studied Romans 12, and let me...

According to the World-watch-list published by Open Doors, oppression of Christians increased in many countries in 2015. This is true especially for Muslim countries, due to the activities of...

‘We live in a post-Christian age.’ This is the refrain that is often heard when discussing the present-day conditions of the Christian Church in the West. Post-Christian culture, post-Christian...

For years it has been a privilege for me to be a member of FEET, the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians, and it still is. Although not a theologian, I have always felt welcome in this...

In May 2015 the first edition of Martin Luther’s treatise “De libertate christiana” from November 1520, with original handwritten notes by the Reformer himself, was discovered in a library in...

I recently had the opportunity to attend a reunion of some of my former students from the period of ten to fifteen years ago. This gathering was also accompanied by a plethora of news from those...

July 2015 has brought the 600th anniversary of Jan Hus`s martyrdom at the Church Council in Konstanz (1415). His cruel death at the stake was the beginning of prolonged wars between the Roman...

At a FEET conference, more than 20 years ago, I was struck by a paper to which I still refer from time to time. Professor Oskar Skarsaune from Oslo showed us convincingly how the first Christians...

This author is presently based in Norway, but has served for many years in East Africa since late 1970’s. Just before Easter I returned home from Kenya after teaching and guiding a group of college...

In his discussion with Nicodemus, Jesus says that he himself must be lifted up, just as Moses lifted up the snake. Obviously, Jesus refers to his future crucifixion, as part of his returning to his...

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...

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...