Basilius Jacobus Groen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Basilius Jacobus Groen (born July 22, 1953 in De Rijp ) is a Dutch liturgical scholar.

Life

After graduating from high school in the Netherlands, he spent a year as a foreign exchange student in the USA (1971/72; graduation from Jamestown High School (North Dakota)). He studied philosophy , theology and modern Greek in Nijmegen , and practical theology, hospital chaplaincy and liturgical history in Amsterdam . In Trier he specialized in liturgical studies as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , and as a fellow of the Greek state at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in orthodox liturgy and Byzantine art. He then became the founding director of the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies at the Catholic University of Nijmegen . From 1997 to 1998 he taught as visiting professor for ecumenism and the Eastern Church at the University of Münster . From 2002 to September 2018 he taught as full professor for liturgical science and sacramental theology as well as head of the institute for liturgical science, Christian art and hymnology at the University of Graz . He retired on October 1, 2018.

Fonts (selection)

  • The genezing van aims en lichaam. De viering van het oliesel in de Grieks-Orthodoxe Kerk (= theology & empiricism . Volume 11). Kok / Deutscher Studienverlag, Kampen / Weinheim 1990, ISBN 90-242-3220-1 (also dissertation, Nijmegen 1991).
  • How long it was and how far. A catholic and ecumenical view on the Arduous way to a common Easter date (= General Scientific Series. Grazer Universitätsverlag . Volume 35). Leykam, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7011-0284-6 .
  • Ascension, Struggle and Freedom. Nikos Kazantzakis, his asceticism: the saviors of God and the Greek Orthodox spiritual and liturgical tradition (= Studies on South East Europe . Volume 18). LIT, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-50697-9 .
  • De weg omhoog en de strijd om vrijheid. Nikos Kazantzakis, zijn Ascetica en de orthodoxe traditie . Uitgeverij Ta Grammata, Groningen 2017, ISBN 978-90-819370-9-2 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Groen, Basilius Jacobus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groen, Bert; Groen, Basil J .; Groen, Basil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch liturgical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH De Rijp