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Dr. Jan Martijn Abrahamse

Dr. Jan Martijn Abrahamse

Jan Martijn Abrahamse (1985) is docent systematische theologie en ethiek aan de Christelijke Hogeschool Ede en als docent verbonden aan het Baptisten Seminarium bij o.a. het vak ‘Doing Theology’. Daarnaast is hij betrokken bij het Netherlands Institute for Evangelical and Reformation Theology (NIFERT) en het Centre for Church and Mission in the West (CCMW).

Publicaties:

Boeken

  • met Ariaan Baan, Stanley Hauerwas: Een theologische biografie (Utrecht: KokBoekencentrum, 2022), fc.
  • Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective: Retrieving Robert Browne (c. 1550-1633) for Contemporary Ecclesiology (Studies in Reformed Theology, vol. 41; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020), 438 pp.
  • Breekbaar halleluja: Onderweg met de pelgrimspsalmen (Utrecht: KokBoekencentrum, 2018), 216pp.
  • The Stripping of the Ministry: A Reconsideration and Retrieval of Robert Browne's Theology of Ordained Ministry (PhD dissertation, VU University Amsterdam, 2018), 400 pp.
  • met Wout Huizing, ed., Van onderen! Op zoek naar een ambtstheologie voor een priesterschap van gelovigen (Baptistica Reeks, no. 8; Amsterdam: Unie van Baptistengemeenten, 2014), 172 pp.

Artikelen (Peer-Reviewed)

  • “Gathering the Pieces: Being Church in an Age of Fragmentation,” in The Seeds of the Church: Towards an Ecumenical Baptist Ecclesiology, eds. Henk Bakker, Steven Harmon, Beth Newman, and Teun van der Leer (Free Church, Catholic Tradition; Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2022), fc.
  • “Rooting Our Systematic Theologies: The Moral Dimension of a Theology of Retrieval,” Journal of European Baptist Studies 22, no. 2 (2021): fc.
  • “Appropriate Divine Laughter: Psalm 2’s Theological Gesture for a Comic Theology Proper,” Journal of Reformed Theology 15, no. 3-4 (2021): 185-207.
  • “God’s Marketeer: Changing Perceptions in the Dutch Media Towards Billy Graham’s 1954 Evangelical Crusade,” European Journal of Theology 30, no. 2 (2021): 312-344.
  • “Goede Vrijdag en Pasen op afstand: Een praktische-soteriologische analyse,” Kerk en theologie 71, no. 3 (2021): 214-227.
  • “Enough to Set a Kingdom Laughing: Divine Tragicomedy and Sacramental Laughter in a Weeping World,” in Baptist Sacramentalism 3, eds. Anthony R. Cross and Philip S. Thompson (Eugene: Pickwick, 2020), 280-302.
  • “Religious Satire and the Crucified Christ: Upsetting Theological Discourse,” Religion & Theology: A Journal of Contemporary Religious Discourse 27 no. 1-2 (2020): 15–46.
  • “The Clown of the Sciences: Theology at the Secular University,” Journal of European Baptist Studies 19, no. 1 (2019): 9-26.
  • “Dumb Dogs That Cannot Bark: The Puritan Origins of Preaching Revival,” in Baptists and Revivals: Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Baptist Studies, ed. William Pitts (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2018), 288-303.
  • “‘Is Smyth also Among the Brownists?’ Confronting John Smyth with his predecessor Robert Browne,” The Baptist Quarterly 46, no. 3 (2015): 1-10.
  • “Robert Browne as an Unwanted Child: Explaining Separatism from the Nursery of Presbyterian Puritanism,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 40, no. 4 (2013): 349–365.