Johannes van Oort

Johannes van Oort (2012)

Johannes van Oort (born September 4, 1949 ) is a Dutch theologian , church and religion historian.

Life

He studied Latin and Greek and then theology at the University of Utrecht . He has been active in higher education since 1972, from 1980 to 1983 as a research assistant for church history in Utrecht and from 1983 to 1987 as a university lecturer for religious education and didactics at the same university. In 1992 he was appointed lecturer in church history and the history of Christian teaching at the University of Utrecht. In 1999 van Oort was appointed associate professor of Gnosis in Nijmegen , where he was made full professor in 2000.

Fonts (selection)

• Jerusalem and Babylon. A study into Augustine 's City of God and the sources of his doctrine of the two cities . Leiden 1991, ISBN 90-04-09323-0 .
• Augustine's confessiones. Gnostic en christelijke spiritualiteit in a diepzinnig document . Turnhout 2002, ISBN 2-503-52201-7 .
• as editor with Otto Wermelinger and Gregor Wurst : Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West. Proceedings of the Friborg-Utrecht symposium of the International Association of Manichaean Studies (IAMS) . Leiden 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-22685-2 .
• as editor with Christoph Markschies : Approaches to Gnosis. Files for the meeting of the Patristic Working Group from January 2nd to 5th, 2011 in Berlin-Spandau . Leuven 2013, ISBN 978-90-429-2717-9 .

literature

• as editors Jacob Albert van den Berg, Annemaré Kotzé and Tobias Nicklas : In search of truth. Augustine, Manichaeism, and other gnosticism. Studies for Johannes van Oort at sixty . Leiden 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-18997-3 .

Web links

• academia.edu