Research Profile

Ecumenics, Intercultural Theology and Hermeneutics.

Teaching Profile

Hermeneutics (esp. the relation between scripture, tradition, and culture) and Intercultural Theology

Selected Publications

Progress in Unity? Fifty Years of Theology within the World Council of Churches: 1945-1995 (Louvain/Grand Rapids, 1995).

Justification in Ecumenical Dialogue: Central Aspects of Christian Soteriology in Debate (Zoetermeer, 1996).

Sacraments of Freedom: Ecumenical Essays on Creation and Sacrament – Justification and Freedom (Zoetermeer, 1999).

The Tragedy of Human Freedom: The Failure and Promise of the Christian Concept of Freedom in Western Culture, Currents of Encounter 20. (Amsterdam-New York, 2003).

The Non-Western Jesus (a translation of the Dutch original is being prepared).

Contact

Vrije Universiteit The Netherlands
Email: me.brinkman@th.vu.nl

Phone: 0031302201161