J Wentzel van Huyssteen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Wentzel van Huyssteen |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Wentzel |
| FAMILY NAME | van Huyssteen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HUYSSTEEN J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is there any hope for ‘truth’ and ‘progress’ in theological thinking today
To provide the historical-theological background to his own intellectual pursuit of interdisciplinary theology, Wentzel van Huyssteen tells his story that was prompted in his student days at Stellenbosch by the then young, newly appointed lecturer Johan Heyns. It sprung from the basic understanding and confrontation with the question: How is theology to be understood as a science? The very question became Van Huyssteen’s most basic research quest…
A response to my colleagues
In November of 2014, Princeton Theological Seminary honored me with an outstanding academic Retirement Symposium to celebrate my 23 years of tenure there. In this article I respond to various challenging and exciting themes and issues raised by colleagues Niels Henrik Gregersen, Michael Welker, Agustin Fuentes, Celia Deane-Drummond, and David Fergusson. My colleagues raised a surprisingly rich series of challenging questions covering a wide range…
The Historical Self
For a philosophical theologian deeply committed to interdisciplinary discourse with the sciences, the remarkable privilege of being involved in Ian Hodder’s Çatalhöyük project has indeed been enriching as well as an extraordinary challenge. Most importantly, I have learned that archaeology presents us with a very unusual problem of semantic innovation: in looking back to the distant past, how does new meaning come to be, and, in doing so, how doe…
Religion in the Emergence of Civilization
This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines Çatalhöyük as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, Çatalhöyük was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic …
Ethics and Christology - Rediscovering Jesus in Evolutionary History
Ethics and Christology - Rediscovering Jesus in Evolutionary HistoryThe rather perplexing issue of whether and how Christology should relate to Ethics can, for me at least, only be resolved by first asking how exactly, in the case of Jesus, God’s revelation is located not just in history, but specifically in evolutionary history itself. The evolutionary history of our species, as well as those characteristics that we normally see as defining the …
Tradition and the Task of Theology
Is the Postmodernist Always a Postfoundationalist
“In critical realism, the epistemic purpose of metaphorical language is not to transcend the world of human experience but indeed to set limits to the range and scope of our theological and scientific language. Such limits establish a domain for human knowledge. A weak form of critical realism—also one that would take the realist assumptions of the Christian faith seriously—claims that one's subjective encounter of the world is of the same order …
Ethics and Christology - Rediscovering Jesus in Evolutionary History
Ethics and Christology - Rediscovering Jesus in Evolutionary HistoryThe rather perplexing issue of whether and how Christology should relate to Ethics can, for me at least, only be resolved by first asking how exactly, in the case of Jesus, God’s revelation is located not just in history, but specifically in evolutionary history itself. The evolutionary history of our species, as well as those characteristics that we normally see as defining the …
Is there any hope for ‘truth’ and ‘progress’ in theological thinking today
To provide the historical-theological background to his own intellectual pursuit of interdisciplinary theology, Wentzel van Huyssteen tells his story that was prompted in his student days at Stellenbosch by the then young, newly appointed lecturer Johan Heyns. It sprung from the basic understanding and confrontation with the question: How is theology to be understood as a science? The very question became Van Huyssteen’s most basic research quest…
Is the Postmodernist Always a Postfoundationalist
“In critical realism, the epistemic purpose of metaphorical language is not to transcend the world of human experience but indeed to set limits to the range and scope of our theological and scientific language. Such limits establish a domain for human knowledge. A weak form of critical realism—also one that would take the realist assumptions of the Christian faith seriously—claims that one's subjective encounter of the world is of the same order …
Tradition and the Task of Theology
Ethics and Christology - Rediscovering Jesus in Evolutionary History
Ethics and Christology - Rediscovering Jesus in Evolutionary HistoryThe rather perplexing issue of whether and how Christology should relate to Ethics can, for me at least, only be resolved by first asking how exactly, in the case of Jesus, God’s revelation is located not just in history, but specifically in evolutionary history itself. The evolutionary history of our species, as well as those characteristics that we normally see as defining the …
Religion in the Emergence of Civilization
This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines Çatalhöyük as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, Çatalhöyük was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic …
The Historical Self
For a philosophical theologian deeply committed to interdisciplinary discourse with the sciences, the remarkable privilege of being involved in Ian Hodder’s Çatalhöyük project has indeed been enriching as well as an extraordinary challenge. Most importantly, I have learned that archaeology presents us with a very unusual problem of semantic innovation: in looking back to the distant past, how does new meaning come to be, and, in doing so, how doe…
A response to my colleagues
In November of 2014, Princeton Theological Seminary honored me with an outstanding academic Retirement Symposium to celebrate my 23 years of tenure there. In this article I respond to various challenging and exciting themes and issues raised by colleagues Niels Henrik Gregersen, Michael Welker, Agustin Fuentes, Celia Deane-Drummond, and David Fergusson. My colleagues raised a surprisingly rich series of challenging questions covering a wide range…
Is there any hope for ‘truth’ and ‘progress’ in theological thinking today
To provide the historical-theological background to his own intellectual pursuit of interdisciplinary theology, Wentzel van Huyssteen tells his story that was prompted in his student days at Stellenbosch by the then young, newly appointed lecturer Johan Heyns. It sprung from the basic understanding and confrontation with the question: How is theology to be understood as a science? The very question became Van Huyssteen’s most basic research quest…
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Ancient Near East History (2 works) · Christology (2 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 works) · History (2 works)