Albert Jan Rasker

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Albert J. Rasker, 1982

Albert Jan Rasker (born February 10, 1906 in Zwolle , † June 23, 1990 in Enschede ) was a Dutch Protestant theologian of the Dutch Reformed Church and university professor .

Life

After receiving his university entrance qualification, Rasker studied Protestant theology at the Imperial University of Groningen . After passing the examination at the Reich University on the subject of "Godgeleerdheid", he was awarded his diploma in 1935 . With his dissertation on Kant's philosophy of religion , he became the doctor of theology doctorate . He later completed his habilitation with systematic-theological work and was appointed professor .

Rasker was one of the founding fathers of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK). He already participated in the second preliminary conference for the convening of an “ All-Christian Peace Assembly ”. He was also elected to a committee to continue work.

Sculpture by the Soviet sculptor Wuchetsch on the United Nations building in New York

In the discussion at the Third CFK in 1960, he addressed the meaning of the symbol " swords to plowshares ":

“ In the United Nations building in New York there is a large bronze picture depicting this promise from Isaiah . There you see a big, strong blacksmith who is forging a sword into a plow. And there is something like this below: Let us forge the swords to plow. It is very strange that this picture is a gift from the Soviet Union , that it was not given to the United Nations by Christian churches. I think that is a shameful thing for us Christians. Now, of course, one can say that the communists took it up, instead of God's promise just written a human plan underneath it and thus secularized the whole thing . Isn't that also our fault as Christians that such a promise has been secularized to humanistic ideals? "

Publications

  • The ethic en het problem van het booze. Een study naar aanleiding van de ethische en godsdienstphilosophische Geschriften van Immanuel Kant (diss.), Assen 1935
  • The power of reconciliation and the powerlessness of violence , Zurich: Vereinigg "Friends of New Ways", [around 1959]
  • Theology and Revolution , Hamburg: Reich, 1969
  • We choose the dangerous life , Munich: Kaiser, 1961, [by the author exp., Neubearb. u. trans. Output]
  • Letter to Milan Machovec = (Mistr dialogu Milan Machovec: sborník k nedožitým osmdesátinám českého filosofa / [editoři Kamila Jindrová, Pavel Tachecí, Pavel Žďárský], pp. 226–233)
  • De Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk vanaf 1795. Geschiedenis, theologische ontwikkelingen en de verhouding dead hair zusterkerken in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw , Kampen 1986
  • Calvinus oecumenicus, = In de waagschaal , 15 (1), 11-13, 1959

literature

  • Johannes Jacobus Poortman: Repertorium der Nederlandse wijsbegeerte , Verlag Wereldbibliotheek, 1948
  • KE Biezeveld: RASKER, ALBERT JAN . In: Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme. Uitgeverij Kok, Kampen 2001, ISBN 90-435-0384-3 , Vol. 5, pp. 416-418

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Only future. Documents of the third session of the Christian Peace Conference , Prague 1960, p. 110
personal data
SURNAME Rasker, Albert Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasker, Albert J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch evangelical reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwolle
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1990
Place of death Enschede