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Waar raakt Gods heil de mens? Over fragmenten van het heil
No full textThe salvation of God always touches that one, unique person. Therefore, we want to hear from a concrete life, a contemporary, where and how the salvation of God touches this one person. We deliberately chose a source outside the Reformed tradition: Meditation of a Modern Believer, tellingly titled My Bright Abyss.We use this book to see if, and if so, how, thinking from Reformed theology, we can learn from this ‘modern believer’. Four aspects that emerge from Wiman’s work pass the review. Four salvific fragments are mentioned: the fragmentary, human life, despair and atonement
Focus. De theologische nalatenschap van ds. G. Boer
No full textN.a.v.: G. Boer, Tijdbetrokken vreemdelingschap. Verzameld werk van Ds. G. Boer. Deel I. Verzameld en geannoteerd door J. van der Graaf, De Banier uitgeverij, Apeldoorn 2016, 849 p., € 59,95 (ISBN 9789462786431); G. Boer, Gegronde troost. Uitleg van de Heidelbergse Catechismus. Onder redactie van G.H. Kruijmer en G.M. Breugem, De Banier uitgeverij, Apeldoorn 2019, 746 p., € 59,95 (ISBN 9789087180591); G. Boer, Verkondiging met volmacht. Verzameld werk van Ds. G. Boer. Deel II. Verzameld door J. van der Graaf, De Banier uitgeverij, Apeldoorn 2020, 332 p., € 44,95 (ISBN 9789087183004).
Bewegen in het boek der natuur: buitensport als heilzame spirituele discipline
No full textHuman beings seek wild places to reflect upon ourselves and understand our place within creation. In outdoor sports, we experience the natural world through physical exertion as an expression of God’s majesty. This essay evaluates the ‘outdoor’ theologically as a spiritual discipline aimed at admiring the ‘beautiful book’ of nature, based on the experiences of students during a course, a theological exploration of Psalm 8, an aesthetic-doxological interpretation of the book metaphor, and the concept of resonance in Hartmut Rosa
The various networks of the Catholic gentry in early modern England
No full textReview of: Susan M. Cogan, Catholic social networks in early modern England. Kinship, gender and coexistence (Amsterdam: AUP, 2021, 296 pp., index
The Refugee (Tale) Paradox: Narratives of Vulnerability and Aspirationality
No full textThe global refugee regime can be characterized by central paradoxes, similarly to how our societal narratives around displacement and refuge are fundamentally contradictory, yet immanent to the system they help to maintain. Following Hannah Arendt’s notion of the ‘aporia of human rights’, I discuss one particular salient set of contradictions as the ‘refugee paradox’. It describes a set of policy expectations and narratives around the figure of the refugee as vulnerable and hence deserving of protection, yet self-sufficient and self-reliant; one who must be happy to have survived and not aspire to much more, but, once the asylum status is approved, must display agency and aspirations for upward mobility; a victim of their circumstances, yet a role model of integration and economic success in the host society. I analyse the discursive charging and real-life consequences of the refugee paradox with a particular view to discourses of ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’, or ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ refugees in the present geopolitical landscape. Existing interventions, be they local aid, humanitarian intervention or political activism, necessarily move within the narrow confines of this paradox and therefore seldom accomplish more than symptom control. Thus, at its core, the refugee paradox is naturalized and serves to legitimate the status quo
A Difficult Passage to Navigate: From Asylum Story to Refugee Tale
No full textThis article draws on the results of a life writing initiative, ARENA (Archive of Refugee Encounter Narratives), developed at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. It involves students of English collaborating with refugees over periods of three months to write down the latter’s stories. Like other storytelling ventures spawned by the perceived European refugee crisis of 2015, ARENA aims to enable a better understanding of the situation of refugees in Europe than the dominant asylum discourse allows. To this end, students arrange regular encounters with participating refugees and encourage them to tell whatever they consider to be their stories. The texts the students craft from these exchanges capture not only the refugees’ stories but also their own experience of hearing them. I will examine the embodied act of narration thus recorded in the ARENA corpus and contest critical claims that, too indebted to the rigid veracity standards defining official refugee testimonials, refugee life writing is unable to augment new ways of thinking about refugee experience and forced migration at large. My argument is that such criticism does not apply where the dialogic nature of live telling is consciously experienced and given due expression in the life writing it eventually becomes
The impact of personality traits on interpersonal dynamics at zero acquaintance
No full textThe current study aimed to examine the relationship between personality traits and interpersonal states. Eighty undergraduate participants were administered personality trait inventories, then 40 dyads were video recorded doing collaborative tasks. These video recordings were coded for moment-to-moment communion and agency using Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics. Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling was used to understand the impact of personality traits on interpersonal dynamics (average, variability, slope, complementarity on agency and communion). The results showed that there were no relationships between personality traits and dynamics. There were two main limitations that may explain these results. First, behavior may have been influenced more by social norms to be friendly and take turns than personality traits, especially in this “strong situation”. Second, it may be useful to aggregate behavior over multiple situations to capture variance attributable to traits. Future studies should aggregate behavior over multiple situations and/or change the situational constraints on behavior in order to determine the relationship between states and traits
Waarom is de Liturgische Beweging nooit een zelfstandige “modaliteit” geworden in het Nederlandse protestantisme? Historische en systematisch-theologische beschouwingen
No full textLike many other churches, Protestantism in the Netherlands had its own Liturgical Movement during the twentieth century. Unlike some churches, for example the Anglican Communion, the liturgical identity of parts of Dutch Protestantism never led to the formation of a “modaliteit” – a distinctive, organized party within the church. This article first argues that the Protestant Liturgical Movement initially possessed enough distinctive neo-patristic theological and spiritual potential to form such a party. Subsequently, the article explores why the formation of such a “modaliteit” did not take place. The reason is found in an implosion and restart of the Liturgical Movement in Dutch Protestantism, which took place during the 1950s and which changed the theological and spiritual profile of the Movement. By losing its neo-patristic theology, the Movement lost both the opportunity and the necessity of forming a distinctive party within the church
Flowing Liquids behind Solid Façades: Water in Nineteenth-Century Stage Technology
No full textAs theatre became a mass medium in nineteenth-century Germany, theatre buildings needed to fulfil the needs of the new civil spectatorship in terms of safety, comfort, and artistic demands. Water-based technologies like heating systems, hydraulics, and fire prevention became essential components of stage technology. As a result, more and more water pipes permeated the prestigious buildings of bourgeois theatre art and allowed new, centralised, and economically efficient working structures. The flexible and fluid transmission of power and energy through water stood in apparent contradiction to the increasing fixity and control of workers, machinists, and engineers in the theatres. In fact, fluid infrastructures, centralised work processes, and standardised control formed an efficient complement. Behind the representative façades of bourgeois theatres, a new, industrialised working reality was established that efficiently employed the alleged contradiction between fluid technology and controlled workflows and became a central principle of nineteenth- century stage technology