12/04/2014
Monday Professor of intercultural theology Benno van den Toren will give an interactive lecture about truth; how do various religions relate and perceive each other? During the next event organized by the Veritas-forum on April 14th 20:00h Benno van den Toren will discuss exclusivity and the point of view towards different religions.
Benno van den Toren studied theology in Utrecht, Oxford and Kampen where he did his doctoral research on apologetics, Karl Barth, and postmodernism. After working as a pastoral assistant and with the Dutch evangelical student movement, he moved with his family to French-speaking Africa, where he taught systematic theology for eight years at the Bangui Evangelical School of Theology. Benno publishes in Dutch, English, and French, and currently concentrates on questions relating to cross-cultural apologetic witness and to the nature of Christian doctrine and ethics in a multicultural world and on charismatic theology. Benno is also Extraordinary Professor in the Theology of Charismatic Renewal at VU University in Amsterdam. Today Benno van den Toren is professor of intercultural theology at the Protestant Theological University here in Groningen.
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