Bas Leenman

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Bas Leenman (actually: Bastiaan Leenman ; born September 4, 1920 in Oud-Beijerland , South Holland ; † April 6, 2006 in Arnhem ) was a Dutch reformed industrial pastor .

Life

Leenman studied Protestant theology after graduating from college . After his ordination as a pastor, he worked as an industrial pastor and took care of help finding the meaning of the people involved in technical processes of industrialization .

While looking for directions in this previously undeveloped area, he came across a guest lecture by the sociologist and philosopher Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy , which he held in 1958 in Münster , Westphalia . The encounter with this work philosopher ushered in a new stage in his life. Bas moved to the United States . On April 18, 1969, he set up a " Half-Way " house in Vermont State , a house for those released from psychiatry who were granted institutional protection for a transitional period "halfway through". The house called FortySeven Main Street, Inc. is now run by his son Willem Leenman.

Leenman was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and participant of the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly in Prague in 1961 . From 1992 to 1997 he lived with his wife Teuna in the offensive young Christians ecumenical community in Reichelsheim . During this time the idea of ​​a multi-week traveling university in Ireland was born, where Leenman gave teaching units.

Bas Leenman was one of the best connoisseurs and most creative students of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. He also lived in Vermont and was a professor at the neighboring Dartmouth College in Hanover ( New Hampshire ). Leenman published his own texts and was the editor of Rosenstock's works and those of his circle of friends.

Publications

  • The breath of the spirit (Frankfurt a. M .: Verlag der Frankfurter Hefte, 1951; reprint, with foreword and index by Bas Leenman, Moers: Brendow Verlag / Vienna: Amandus, 1991), 293 pp.
  • Healing power and truth. Concordance of political and cosmic time (Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagswerk GmbH, 1952; reprint, with foreword and index by Bas Leenman, Moers: Brendow Verlag / Vienna: Amandus, 1991), 215 pp.
  • Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1938; reprint, London: Jarrolds, 1939; Norwich, Vt .: Argo Books, 1969, with introductions by Page Smith, Bastian Leenman, and Col. AA Hanbury Sparrow, xxii pp .; Providence: Berg Publishers, 1993, with an introduction by Harold Berman), 795 pp. {A different version of: The European Revolutions. People's Characters and State-Building (1931), The European Revolutions and the Character of Nations (1951), The European Revolutions and the Character of Nations (revision, 1961; reprint, 1987)
  • As God stukloopt, de maatschappij as erfgenaam van de kerk. Edited by Otto Kroesen, et al. Selected letters and essays by Bas Leenman. Published by Skandalon 2016.

As editor

  • series texts from history, volume 2: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, The Daughter - The Book of Rut, translated into German by Martin Buber 1988, ISBN 3-89376-006-7
  • Stimmstein 3 - Yearbook of the Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Society, Bas Leenman, Lise van der Molen, Eckart Wilkens (eds. :) Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy - For the hundredth birthday. With contributions from Wolfgang Ullmann, Andreas Möckel, Raymond Huessy, Harold J. Berman, Piet Blankevoort, Gertrud Weismantel u. a. and texts by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 1990, ISBN 3-89376-010-5
  • "Hitler and Israel or Vom Gebet" - "Hitler and Israel, or On Prayer" - "Hitler en Israel of Over het gebed" - "Hitler i Izrael albo O modlitwie," supplement Wahlstein, ed. The Eugen Rosenstock- Huessy Society, with introductions by Cynthia Harris; Jochen Lübbers; Bas Leenman; Adam Zak (SJ) (1992), 100 pp. {= "Hitler and Israel, or On Prayer," Journal of Religion (1945) and translation (1987) ISBN 3-89376-023-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominik Klenk (ed.): Risk your heart: Miracles and dares - experienced with God / Young Christians offensive , Brunnen Verlag Gießen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7655-1909-3 , pp. 99-103.
  2. ^ Andreas Möckel, employee of the Eugen-Rosenstock-Huessy-Gesellschaft in a letter dated February 22, 2010 to the editor
personal data
SURNAME Leenman, Bas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leenman, Bastiaan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch reformed industrial pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Oud-Beijerland , South Holland
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2006
Place of death Arnhem , Netherlands