Dr. G.A. van den Brink
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Associate professor of Church History, lecturer in philosophy Send an e-mail |
Short CV
Dr. G.A. (Gert) van den Brink (1974) studied theology at Utrecht University, and from 1998 to 2003 he taught classical languages on a secondary school. At the UU he graduated in 2006 in Philosophy of Religion, with a thesis on the relationship between empiricism and atheism in the philosophy of Herman Philipse. From 2010 till 2020, he was a pastor at the Laankerk (hersteld hervormde gemeente) in Rotterdam.
In 2016, Van den Brink obtained his PhD in Church History and in the history of dogma with a joint doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam, and the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven in 2016. His dissertation is to be published in English by Brill Leiden.
Van den Brink is an associate professor in Historical Theology. He is also lecturer in Philosophy.
The focus of his teaching lies in Philosophy, Church History of the Middle Ages, and the interaction between Early Modernity and the Dutch Reformed Orthodoxy of the 17th century.
In his scientific research he focuses on the view of Reformed Scholasticism in the 17th century on the interaction of intellect and will, as well as on imputation. He is also the editor of the publication of a critical edition of the Acta et Documenta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechtanae and the critical edition of the Politica Ecclesiastica by Gisbertus Voetius.
Publications
Positions
- Editor of the Acta et Documenta Synodi Nationalis Dordrechtanae
- Member of the research group Classic Reformed Theology (OGTh)