Background
Brinkman, Martien Everhardus was born on July 22, 1950 in Stadskanaal, The Netherlands. Son of Willem and Maria Cornelia (Engelenburg) Brinkman.
(Human freedom has been the source of both the high points...)
Human freedom has been the source of both the high points of humanity as well as of its low points, thus giving rise to the impression that it is a somewhat ambivalent concept. According to Martien Brinkman, the major factor in this ambivalence is the rather narrow meaning that the concept has received in the course of history. Freedom is, for the most part, understood as 'freedom from' or 'freedom to' but only rarely as 'freedom for'. However, it is precisely this latter understanding that is closest to the Christian understanding of freedom, which Brinkman defines as 'internal attachment'. In his view Christian freedom is at bottom characterized by that to which one commits oneself in trust. He sees primarily the Christian theology of baptism, with its accent on 'dying' and 'rising' with Christ as the model for the way in which one acquires freedom. Brinkman illustrates this in this study by means of a great number of biblical images and images borrowed from the historical debates between Augustine and Pelagius and Luther and Erasmus.
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Brinkman, Martien Everhardus was born on July 22, 1950 in Stadskanaal, The Netherlands. Son of Willem and Maria Cornelia (Engelenburg) Brinkman.
Bachelor in Theology, Free University, Amsterdam, 1972. Master of Arts in Theology, Free University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in Theology, Free University, 1979.
Minister Reformed Church, Zandoort, Netherlands, 1983—1987. Associate professor Ecumenical Institute, Utrecht, 1987—2000. Professor Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium, 1993—1998.
Full professor Free University, Amsterdam, since 2000.
(Human freedom has been the source of both the high points...)