In 2020 gebeurde alles in onderwijs corona-proof en dus vaak online. Ook de Logos-studiedag kende in 2020 een digitale editie. Het thema, scheppingsgeloof en ecologie, was bijzonder boeiend. De organisatoren nodigden me uit om een bijdrage te schrijven. In deze blogpost geef ik een ingekorte versie van die tekst. Ik probeer wat we weten over…
Tag: elisabeth johnson
Waarom identiteit verschil nodig heeft
Dit citaat is kan je op elke religie, op elke levensbeschouwing toepassen. Verschil ontmoeten geeft je dieper inzicht in hoe je zelf naar mens en wereld kijkt, of je nu christen, moslim, atheïst, … bent. “At times claims do conflict, and the dialogue of theological exchange requires that the truth of one’s own tradition cannot…
Gelezen: pluralisme als deel schepping
“Religious pluralism can be seen as part of God’s single, rich, intricate design for the salvation of the human race, one divine love working itself out through a multifaceted plan. This positive assessment of pluralism is profoundly theological. It rests not on the value of diversity in general as seen in biology and culture, but…
Gelezen: een wereld in evolutie, een godsbeeld in evolutie
“When people begin to think about God in relation to this world, the stunning natural world opened up to our wonder but being destroyed by our wasting leads to a whole new approach. In former times, the basic conception of the world was that it was created in the beginning and remained a static entity;…
Gelezen: Schepping is (veel) meer dan de mens
“Seeing the living God as Creator not just of human beings but of the whole world in which we humans are embedded, ecological theology finds warrant to cross the species line and extend this divine solidarity to all creatures. It proposes that the Creator Spirit dwells in compassionate solidarity with every living being that suffers,…
Theology and Science: Practical Cooperation for a Better Education
My research in education is interdisciplinary. I want to bring together perspectives from pedagogy, theology, and evolutionary studies of culture in order to understand what it might mean for humans to educate and to be educated, to teach and to learn. This implies that I need to establish some kind of relation between different perspectives,…