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Theologie en politiek
De discussie over de staat Israël in Kerk en Theologie 1968-1981
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Kerk en Theologie, Volume 75, Issue 2, Apr 2024,
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- 01 Apr 2024
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Abstract
Interest in the State of Israel soared during the aftermath of the Six Day-War (1967). In Kerk en Theologie, G.C. van Niftrik, A.W. Dekker and A.A. Spijkerboer took their clues from Karl Barth and F.W. Marquardt. The notion of a unique position of Israel in salvation history was however vehemently denied by those who stood up for Palestinians (Kroon, Verkuyl, Slomp, Snoek, others). Some major agents in Dutch Protestantism remained at the sidelines: especially Calvinist Orthodoxy and the Evangelicals. Their interest in the Jewish people cannot be doubted, but is hardly reflected in the pages of Kerk en Theologie.
© Gert van Klinken