Henk Van Den Belt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henk Van Den Belt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henk Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Belt |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN BELT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9057-5822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sjoerd Hofstra's foray into the sociology of knowledge and science
In 1937 the Dutch ethnologist and sociologist Sjoerd Hofstra sketched a programme for a new sociology of knowledge and science in which he combined insights from Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, the anthropological study of "primitive" thought, and the Marxist-inspired views of leftist British natural scientists on the social role of science. Hofstra's programme looked promising at first but ultimately failed to take off. In this essay I will t…
Revelation and the Unity of the Truth
In his assessment of Paul Tillich’s theology, Dirk Martin Grube states that revelation pertains to knowledge about knowledge instead of knowledge about the world. This concept of revelation raises two interrelated questions: 1) Can revelation be restricted to an epistemological metalevel without conveying propositional content?; 2) Does knowledge based on revelation potentially conflict with other forms of knowledge? This article denies the first…
Esha Shah, Who is the Scientist-Subject? Affective History of the Gene
Lessons From the Reformation for Hermeneutics Today
Recent views of the hermeneutical process, including philosophical speech-act theories, challenge Scripture’s authority and emphasize the author’s intention rather than a historical-grammatical view. Relating theological issues to philosophical views is legitimate, provided that the results do not contradict the spiritual authority of Scripture. The following hermeneutical principles of the Reformation can help maintain this adherence: 1) Scriptu…
Synopsis Purioris Theologiae / Synopsis of a Purer Theology
This bilingual edition of the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625) provides English readers access to an influential textbook of Reformed Orthodoxy. Composed by four professors at the University of Leiden (Johannes Polyander, Andreas Rivetus, Antonius Walaeus, and Anthonius Thysius), it offers a presentation of Reformed theology as it was conceived in the first decades of the seventeenth century. From a decidedly Reformed perspective, the Christia…
Word and Spirit in the Confessions of the European Reformation
Protestant spirituality is characterized by the mutual relationship between Word and Spirit. The doctrinal formulations of this relationship in the confessions of the Reformation period show that this specific feature of Protestant spirituality originated from the opposition to Rome and the Radical Reformation. The objections by Protestants against the mediaeval view that grace was infused through the sacraments led them to emphasize that faith w…
DIY-Bio – economic, epistemological and ethical implications and ambivalences
Since 2008, we witness the emergence of the Do-It-Yourself Biology movement, a global movement spreading the use of biotechnology beyond traditional academic and industrial institutions and into the lay public. Practitioners include a broad mix of amateurs, enthusiasts, students, and trained scientists. At this moment, the movement counts nearly 50 local groups, mostly in America and Europe, but also increasingly in Asia. Do-It-Yourself Bio repre…
Restoration through Redemption
The restoration of creation offers the perspective through which Calvin's heritage is analyzed and made fruitful for contemporary Reformed theology. Restoration through Redemption shows that Calvin's theology hinges on Christology, but extends to the whole creation
The Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625) as a Disputation Cycle
The Synopsis Purioris Theologiae , a textbook in systematic theology, originated as a series of disputations held in Leiden University between 1620–1624. In presiding over a cycle of disputations, the Leiden professors Johannes Polyander, Andreas Rivetus, Antonius Walaeus, and Antonius Thysius continued a tradition from before the Synod of Dort. This article discusses the original academic setting of the disputations, shows that the cycle and its…
The Vocatio in the Leiden Disputations (1597–1631)
This article analyses the development of the concept of the divine call to salvation in Reformed theology as it was taught at Leiden University in the first decades of the seventeenth century. During this crucial period, with the Synod of Dort as a pivotal turn, twelve disputations were defended on the subject.The changes in the order of the disputations and some switches in the terminology are related to the Arminian controversy and the confessi…
Playing God in Frankenstein’s Footsteps
The emergent new science of synthetic biology is challenging entrenched distinctions between, amongst others, life and non-life, the natural and the artificial, the evolved and the designed, and even the material and the informational. Whenever such culturally sanctioned boundaries are breached, researchers are inevitably accused of playing God or treading in Frankenstein's footsteps. Bioethicists, theologians and editors of scientific journals f…
The Authority of Scripture in Reformed Theology
The authority of Scripture is the cornerstone of Reformed theology. Calvin introduced the term autopistos from Greek philosophy to express that this authority does not depend on the church or on rational arguments, but is self-convincing. After dealing with Calvin's Institutes, the development of Reformed orthodoxy, and the positions of Benjamin B. Warfield and Herman Bavinck, the author draws theological conclusions, advocating a renewed emphasi…
Networking nature, or serengeti behind the dikes
Nowadays, wildlife has no chance to be conserved and maintained without the helping hand of man. Ambitious plans to adopt an offensive rather than defensive approach to conservation by creating ‘new nature’ led to initiatives to build ecological networks, from the local, through the regional and the national to the European level. Nature policy in the Netherlands aims to realize a National Ecological Network that is linked up with a projected Pan…
Regulating Functional Foods in the European Union
Ludwik Fleck and the causative agent of syphilis
Between Precautionary Principle and “Sound Science”
Born to be Wild
The Precautionary Principle and Pesticides
Why monopoly failed
Historians are invariably wiser after the event. Their approaches to the subject of this paper, the Société La Fuchsine, make no exceptions to this rule. That company was formed in December 1863 with the participation of the Crédit Lyonnais bank to exploit the patent monopoly on the synthetic dyestuff known as fuchsine, and its derivatives, of the Lyons firm of Renard frères et Franc. No one could have foreseen that before the close of the decade…
Specificity in the era of Koch and Ehrlich
Playing God in Frankenstein’s Footsteps
The emergent new science of synthetic biology is challenging entrenched distinctions between, amongst others, life and non-life, the natural and the artificial, the evolved and the designed, and even the material and the informational. Whenever such culturally sanctioned boundaries are breached, researchers are inevitably accused of playing God or treading in Frankenstein's footsteps. Bioethicists, theologians and editors of scientific journals f…
Born to be Wild
Between Precautionary Principle and “Sound Science”
DIY-Bio – economic, epistemological and ethical implications and ambivalences
Since 2008, we witness the emergence of the Do-It-Yourself Biology movement, a global movement spreading the use of biotechnology beyond traditional academic and industrial institutions and into the lay public. Practitioners include a broad mix of amateurs, enthusiasts, students, and trained scientists. At this moment, the movement counts nearly 50 local groups, mostly in America and Europe, but also increasingly in Asia. Do-It-Yourself Bio repre…
Regulating Functional Foods in the European Union
Specificity in the era of Koch and Ehrlich
Specificity in the era of Koch and Ehrlich
Why monopoly failed
Historians are invariably wiser after the event. Their approaches to the subject of this paper, the Société La Fuchsine, make no exceptions to this rule. That company was formed in December 1863 with the participation of the Crédit Lyonnais bank to exploit the patent monopoly on the synthetic dyestuff known as fuchsine, and its derivatives, of the Lyons firm of Renard frères et Franc. No one could have foreseen that before the close of the decade…
The Precautionary Principle and Pesticides
Ludwik Fleck and the causative agent of syphilis
Between Precautionary Principle and “Sound Science”
Born to be Wild
Regulating Functional Foods in the European Union
Networking nature, or serengeti behind the dikes
Nowadays, wildlife has no chance to be conserved and maintained without the helping hand of man. Ambitious plans to adopt an offensive rather than defensive approach to conservation by creating ‘new nature’ led to initiatives to build ecological networks, from the local, through the regional and the national to the European level. Nature policy in the Netherlands aims to realize a National Ecological Network that is linked up with a projected Pan…
The Authority of Scripture in Reformed Theology
The authority of Scripture is the cornerstone of Reformed theology. Calvin introduced the term autopistos from Greek philosophy to express that this authority does not depend on the church or on rational arguments, but is self-convincing. After dealing with Calvin's Institutes, the development of Reformed orthodoxy, and the positions of Benjamin B. Warfield and Herman Bavinck, the author draws theological conclusions, advocating a renewed emphasi…
Playing God in Frankenstein’s Footsteps
The emergent new science of synthetic biology is challenging entrenched distinctions between, amongst others, life and non-life, the natural and the artificial, the evolved and the designed, and even the material and the informational. Whenever such culturally sanctioned boundaries are breached, researchers are inevitably accused of playing God or treading in Frankenstein's footsteps. Bioethicists, theologians and editors of scientific journals f…
The Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625) as a Disputation Cycle
The Synopsis Purioris Theologiae , a textbook in systematic theology, originated as a series of disputations held in Leiden University between 1620–1624. In presiding over a cycle of disputations, the Leiden professors Johannes Polyander, Andreas Rivetus, Antonius Walaeus, and Antonius Thysius continued a tradition from before the Synod of Dort. This article discusses the original academic setting of the disputations, shows that the cycle and its…
The Vocatio in the Leiden Disputations (1597–1631)
This article analyses the development of the concept of the divine call to salvation in Reformed theology as it was taught at Leiden University in the first decades of the seventeenth century. During this crucial period, with the Synod of Dort as a pivotal turn, twelve disputations were defended on the subject.The changes in the order of the disputations and some switches in the terminology are related to the Arminian controversy and the confessi…
Restoration through Redemption
The restoration of creation offers the perspective through which Calvin's heritage is analyzed and made fruitful for contemporary Reformed theology. Restoration through Redemption shows that Calvin's theology hinges on Christology, but extends to the whole creation
Synopsis Purioris Theologiae / Synopsis of a Purer Theology
This bilingual edition of the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625) provides English readers access to an influential textbook of Reformed Orthodoxy. Composed by four professors at the University of Leiden (Johannes Polyander, Andreas Rivetus, Antonius Walaeus, and Anthonius Thysius), it offers a presentation of Reformed theology as it was conceived in the first decades of the seventeenth century. From a decidedly Reformed perspective, the Christia…
Word and Spirit in the Confessions of the European Reformation
Protestant spirituality is characterized by the mutual relationship between Word and Spirit. The doctrinal formulations of this relationship in the confessions of the Reformation period show that this specific feature of Protestant spirituality originated from the opposition to Rome and the Radical Reformation. The objections by Protestants against the mediaeval view that grace was infused through the sacraments led them to emphasize that faith w…
DIY-Bio – economic, epistemological and ethical implications and ambivalences
Since 2008, we witness the emergence of the Do-It-Yourself Biology movement, a global movement spreading the use of biotechnology beyond traditional academic and industrial institutions and into the lay public. Practitioners include a broad mix of amateurs, enthusiasts, students, and trained scientists. At this moment, the movement counts nearly 50 local groups, mostly in America and Europe, but also increasingly in Asia. Do-It-Yourself Bio repre…
Lessons From the Reformation for Hermeneutics Today
Recent views of the hermeneutical process, including philosophical speech-act theories, challenge Scripture’s authority and emphasize the author’s intention rather than a historical-grammatical view. Relating theological issues to philosophical views is legitimate, provided that the results do not contradict the spiritual authority of Scripture. The following hermeneutical principles of the Reformation can help maintain this adherence: 1) Scriptu…
Esha Shah, Who is the Scientist-Subject? Affective History of the Gene
Revelation and the Unity of the Truth
In his assessment of Paul Tillich’s theology, Dirk Martin Grube states that revelation pertains to knowledge about knowledge instead of knowledge about the world. This concept of revelation raises two interrelated questions: 1) Can revelation be restricted to an epistemological metalevel without conveying propositional content?; 2) Does knowledge based on revelation potentially conflict with other forms of knowledge? This article denies the first…
Sjoerd Hofstra's foray into the sociology of knowledge and science
In 1937 the Dutch ethnologist and sociologist Sjoerd Hofstra sketched a programme for a new sociology of knowledge and science in which he combined insights from Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, the anthropological study of "primitive" thought, and the Marxist-inspired views of leftist British natural scientists on the social role of science. Hofstra's programme looked promising at first but ultimately failed to take off. In this essay I will t…
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