René Erwich

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René Erwich

René Erwich

@ErwichRene

Dean of Theology & Social Work @Viaa - Professor of Practical Theology - @UniDivinity Melbourne

Zwolle, The Netherlands Katılım Mart 2019
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René Erwich
René Erwich@ErwichRene·
Proud to be the father of one of them! ❤️
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And then the book finally arrives! Happy 😎
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Done! Our book will be available from Wipf&Stock in the next few days and of course from other platforms (e.g Amazon).
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Elsbeth Gruteke@ElsbethGruteke·
Zondag gaan er Duitse vrienden mee naar de kerk. Hoe kan ik preek en orde van dienst zo makkelijk en goed mogelijk door een vertaalprogramma laten vertalen?
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Kanaän Courant
Kanaän Courant@kanaancourant·
De kettingredenering van ds. Klaassen heeft een kettingreactie tot gevolg. Middels zijn favoriete medium reageert de HHK-predikant op de kritiek van @ReinaWiskerke Almatine Leene en @ErwichRene
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OPINIE | Maarten Klaassen maakt aan de hand van de biologie korte metten met ‘ideologisch betogen over mannen en vrouwen’. Almatine Leene en René Erwich (@ErwichRene) vinden het vreemd dat dominee Klaassen niet in gaat op wat de Bijbel zegt. nd.nl/opinie/opinie/… #NDnl
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@DennyBurk I am not sure it is over at all! Depends on your perspective and your type of normative discourse! Read more in ‘Unquenchable Love’. Soon to be published with Wipf&Stock. #ThinkingSpace
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Denny Burk
Denny Burk@DennyBurk·
I am deeply grieved by this. Richard Hays had penned one of the most important New Testament ethics books ever written and had held the line on what the Bible teaches concerning sexuality. Apparently, that is over. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030027…
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@Praxeas @RobertAJGagnon1 I agree. Points taken and good to discuss but not with this as a starting point. I hope the coming book will help us to reflect further. Please also read my forthcoming ‘Unquenchable Love. Gender, sexuality and theology in conversation’ (Wipf&Stock).
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Andrew McGowan
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@RobertAJGagnon1 “Until his work was eclipsed by my own…” I’d go a bit easier on the narcissistic introduction before attempting to look serious here.
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Robert A. J. Gagnon
Robert A. J. Gagnon@RobertAJGagnon1·
amazon.com/Widening-Gods-… Sadly, Richard Hays (professor emeritus of Duke Divinity School) has backslidden into heresy, reneging on his decades-old published rejection of homosexual practice as immoral. He used to be the main go-to person on the issue until his work was eclipsed by my own more extensive work in 2001. In late September Yale University Press will be publishing a book entitled, The Widening of God's Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story (272 pgs), written by Hays and by his son Christopher, who is an OT scholar and chair at supposedly evangelical Fuller Seminary. This will likely lead to an acceleration of evangelical capitulation on the scripture's (and Jesus') male-female foundation for sexual ethics. It will also likely signal Fuller Seminary's capitulation on sexual ethics. The two Hays argue that God, who is ever "changing his mind" to "broaden," "widen," and "expand" his "grace" and "mercy" in order to "include more and more people," "has already gone on ahead of our debates and expanded his grace" to embrace "full inclusion of LGBTQ people in Christian communities." They contend that the arguments about the so-called "handful of specific passages" dealing with homosexual practice and transgenderism (it is really the entire matrix of biblical texts dealing with human sexuality) "have reached an impasse" and are "missing the forest for the trees." This is a nonsense claim. There is no exegetical (or hermeneutical) impasse. The texts that speak directly to the issue of homosexual practice and transgenderism, understood in their ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman contexts and taking into consideration the flaws of "new knowledge" arguments, decisively demonstrate a strong biblical witness against these behaviors from ancient Israel through early Christianity. Nor is discussion of these texts "missing the forest for the trees." They are part of a larger matrix where every narrative, law, proverb, exhortation, and poetry having anything to do with sexual ethics, from Genesis to Revelation, including the teaching of Jesus, always presuppose a male-female foundation and thus exclude the implosion of that foundation that would come about by embrace of homosexual practice or transgenderism. The position being espoused by the two Hays is akin to claiming that arguments against adult-consensual incest or polyamory that are based on biblical texts directly indicting these practices "miss the forest for the trees." Hays had previously defended the orthodox scriptural position in a journal article in 1986 ("Relations Natural and Unnatural: A Response to John Boswell's Exegesis of Romans 1," Journal of Religious Ethics 14 (1):184-215) and a book chapter in 1996 (ch. 16, pp. 379-406, in: The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics [HarperSanFrancisco]). Even then his work had problems. He dismissed the relevance of the Sodom text (and the related Levite at Gibeah), failing to grasp the ancient Near Eastern context and think analogically. In fact, Sodom and the Levite at Gibeah are both stories that present homosexual practice as an egregious offense within stories about multiple offenses (similar to a story about a man raping his father as not indicting only coercive forms of incest). He also wrongheadedly critiqued Boswell for allegedly thinking that Paul operated with a view of sexual orientation when (Hays claimed) such is a modern idea unknown to Paul. In fact, Hays was agreeing with Boswell that Paul allegedly understood homosexual behavior to be the result of insatiable lust seeking novel forms of self-gratification. Not realizing it, Hays was undermining his own attempt to support Paul's view by giving the Left a "new knowledge" argument for dismissing Paul's witness. Hays failed to understand that rudimentary but real notions of "sexual orientation" already existed in the ancient world, including by some Greco-Roman moralists and physicians who still rejected the behavior arising from said orientation. I look forward to critiquing their book in depth when it is released in late September. But this isn't the first time I have been to the dance. I have been researching this issue for thirty years, and have encountered similar arguments before. This manner of reasoning is rubbish. Some additional considerations: 1. Jesus didn't "widen God's mercy" on sexual ethics by approving of egregious sin and canceling the need for repentance. He intensified God's demand for sexual purity and reached out to the biggest violators of that demand to call people to repentance. 2. Most importantly, Jesus viewed a male-female prerequisite for sexual ethics as the foundation for all sexual ethics, including the limitation of two persons to a sexual bond (monogamy). In this his witness was consistent with the witness of his Hebrew Scriptures and carried forward by the faithful apostolic witness to Christ. 3. The widening of the sphere of God's mercy to include Gentiles is a poor analogical basis for widening it to include homosexual practice and transgenderism, which (unlike being a Gentiles) are direct moral offenses. Nor do analogies to slavery, women, and divorce justify an embrace of homosexual practice and transgenderism, as I have repeatedly shown (and as Hays once knew). 4. Sooner should the church embrace adult-consensual polyamory and adult-consensual incest, both of which are prohibited on the basis of a male-female foundation for sexual ethics grounded in creation. God hasn't changed his mind. Hays and son have. They are now swimming in the sea of heresy, rejecting the clear and overwhelming witness of Scripture (including Jesus) for its antithesis in today's misguided world, and in the process encouraging the embrace of behavior that leads to exclusion from the Kingdom of God. That can't be loving by any stretch of the imagination.
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Jurgen van den Herik
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Ik heb een kind verloren dat slechts 18 dagen oud werd, omdat er iets mis was met de embryonale vorming van geslachtsklieren en geslachtsorganen. Misvormde cloaca, heette het. Zijn of haar hele buik bleek bij de geboorte één grote chaos. Zeldzaam en dodelijk. Maar daar gaat het niet om. Ik wil daar niet zielig over doen. We waren bijna twee weken met het jongetje, of meisje, in Sophia kinderziekenhuis in Rotterdam Het team van artsen onder leiding van professor Tibboel maakte ons duidellijk dat er wel een analyse van de X-Y chromosomen gemaakt kon worden, maar dat dat lang niet alles zei over het werkelijke geslacht van ons kind wanneer het in leven zou blijven. Als meisje zou het een kans van overleven hebben, zij het klein. Als jongetje was de overlevingskans vrijwel nihil. Die weken in het ziekenhuis heb ik gemerkt en gezien en gehoord dat het idee dat een kind óf een jongetje óf een meisje is, niet strookt met de veel grilliger werkelijkheid. Binair denken kan ik dus niet meer. En alle geleuter dat je nu eenmaal twee geslachten (en dus twee genders) hebt, ervaar ik als onnozel gezwatel van mensen die geen idee hebben van wat er allemaal speelt op het gebied van seksualiteit, opgroeien, en gender. Dus een uitspraak als van Pieter Omtzigt "Het moet niet te gemakkelijk" vind ik een grote schande. Alsof er iets "gemakkelijk" zou zijn op dat gebied. Ik ben volledig solidair met alle non-binaire mensen. Als mijn kind het overleefd had zou ik dat namelijk ook met hem zijn geweest, of met haar, of met het. @PieterOmtzigt ad.nl/politiek/nsc-t…
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Verheugd met zoveel vertrouwen en de mogelijkheid het werk in een tweede mandaat voort te zetten; voor heel goed theologisch onderwijs en onderzoek. etf.edu/jos-de-kock-kr…
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Hendro Munsterman
Hendro Munsterman@HendroM·
Iedereen snapt toch dat @PThU_NL , @UtrechtTU en @TUApeldoorn samen in Utrecht een goede stevige faculteit voor protestantse theologie moeten gaan neerzetten? Wellicht als onderdeel van de gereformeerde @VUamsterdam (zoals de katholieke theologie in Utrecht bij @TilburgU hoort).
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Herman Oevermans
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Wat er dit jaar bij ons toch op het toilet hangt..? Maar goed, na de Donald Duck een keertje stevige kost is natuurlijk prima. En, zeg ik erbij, voor de huisgenoten, dit is WO-theologie, HBO is wat eenvoudiger..😉
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Cocky Drost
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Volgens mij is God een stuk minder bijbelvast dan veel mensen denken
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