Karel Adriaan Deurloo

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Karel Adriaanus Deurloo (born January 25, 1936 in Valkenswaard ; † June 1, 2019 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Reformed theologian , Old Testament scholar, author, speaker and belongs to the second generation of the Amsterdam theological school .

Live and act

Deurloo studied Reformed theology at the University of Amsterdam . From 1966 to 1985 he was theological advisor at the interdenominational broadcaster IKON , where he worked with Karel Eijkman and Nico Bouhuijs . There he became known nationally through the television program " Closer ", a series with biblical themes. From 1967 to 1971 he was a youth pastor in Eindhoven . In 1971 he went to the " Amstelkerk ", which is located in the center of Amsterdam , as a student pastor . This Reformed parish was old and a bit sleepy. Under Deurloo it became the lively center of the Amsterdam liturgical school.

In 1975 he received his doctorate with a literary- exegetical study on Cain and Abel and became Professor of the Old Testament and Biblical Theology at the University of Amsterdam. He taught there until his retirement in 2001 and became the head of the theological school in Amsterdam. He also traveled often to Prague, where he taught theology unofficially at a seminary.

As a theologian, he respected the existing form of the Old Testament because it was put together to serve communal reading and thus life. He relativized reconstructions and source separation because he gave the Bible text itself more weight than the methods used. His successor in Amsterdam had other theological interests, so that the Amsterdam school at university increasingly faded. In 2001 he accepted an endowed professorship in Biblical Theology at the Free University of Amsterdam in order to continue and develop the interests of the Amsterdam School.

Private

Deurloo was married to the sculptor Jettie Sluyter; they had two daughters, one of whom is the harmonica and saxophone player Hermine Deurloo .

Honors

Deurloo has received an honorary doctorate from the evangelical faculty in Brussels . In 1994 he received the Comenius Medal from the Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague for his support of Charter 77 and other dissidents in the Czech Republic.

Works

Deurloo has published a lot, both scientifically and in popular science. He also wrote songs and musicals with biblical texts for children, young people and the mentally handicapped, such as " Every Sunday is a festival ", Joseph and Jona . The music came from Maurice Pirenne and Willem Breuker . More than a hundred thousand of his books have been sold. His works have been translated into German, English, Czech and Hungarian. The following are published in German:

  • with Nico Bouhuijs: reading what is written. On the importance of biblical speech and storytelling . Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Offenbach 1988, ISBN 3-7664-9260-8 .
  • with Nico Bouhuijs: closer to the beginning. The meaning of the first stories in the Bible . Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Offenbach 1989, ISBN 3-7664-9268-3 .
  • with Nico Bouhuijs: Prophecy to my people Israel . Approaching the books of the prophets . Burckhardthaus-Laetare-Verlag, Offenbach 1989, ISBN 978-3-7664-9274-6 .
  • Joshua . Interpretation of a biblical book (= Biblical explorations, No. 1). Erev-Rav, Association for Biblical and Political Education, Wittingen 1995, ISBN 3-9803752-4-2 .
  • And he put a child in their midst. Biblical stories for little ears (= Biblical explorations, No. 5). Erev-Rav, Association for Biblical and Political Education, Wittingen 1998, ISBN 3-932810-03-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lodewijk Born: In Memoriam: Karel Deurloo vernieuwde met zijn benadering blijvend de theologie . In: Friesch Dagblad . June 6, 2019 (Dutch, frieschdagblad.nl [accessed May 5, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Uwe FW Bauer: All these words. Impetus for scripture interpretation from Amsterdam . Frankfurt am Main, 1992, ISBN 3-631-44373-0
  3. ^ Peter Bak: Christelijke Encyclopedie - Deurloo, Karel Adriaan. In: www.protestant.nu. July 27, 2009, archived from the original on December 30, 2018 ; accessed on May 5, 2020 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Uwe FW Bauer: The scientific Bible lexicon on the Internet :: bibelwissenschaft.de. In: bibelwissenschaft.de. Retrieved May 5, 2020 (Amsterdam School).
personal data
SURNAME Deurloo, Karel Adriaan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deurloo, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Reformed pastor, Old Testament scholar, author and orator
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Valkenswaard
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2019
Place of death Amsterdam