Harry M. Kuitert
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1924 –
Who is Harry M. Kuitert?
Harry M. Kuitert is a significant theologian of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.
Harry Kuitert - baptised Harminus Martinus - was a rector at Scharendijk and a student pastor at Amsterdam before he became a professor of theology. In Zeeland he witnessed the great flood of 1953 which inundated large parts of this Dutch province.
In 1967 he succeeded the illustrious theologian G. C. Berkouwer as professor of systematic theology at the Free University in Amsterdam, and in 1989 he retired from this chair. Kuitert in the course of his life moved from Reformed orthodoxy to Reformed middle orthodoxy following his mentor and Ph.D. supervisor Berkouwer, for whom he wrote his dissertation on the Divine Co-Humanity. Then, after writing voluminously, critically, and yet appreciatively on Karl Barth, Kuitert later also moved on to a totally unorthodox stance on Jesus Christ, skipping Neo-Orthodoxy altogether. Kuitert developed his views beyond those of Berkouwer whose views seemed definitive.
According to Ecumenical News International, Kuitert, after his own emeritation in 1989, and by now the most widely read theologian in the Netherlands, broke completely with Berkouwer and "Middle Orthodox" tradition in his book, Jesus, the Inheritance of Christianity. "Jesus supported the Jewish view of God, so he never saw himself as God on earth. He is not a Second God, nor the Second Person of the Holy Trinity," said the 80 years-old Kuitert, adopting publicly an informal unitarian stance on the key doctrine of Christian faith, much to the grief of those who continue to love and appreciate the work of Kuitert's mentor Berkouwer.
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- Born
- 1924
- Also known as
- Harry Kuitert
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Lived in
- Friesland
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on July 23, 2013
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