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Research projects

All our projects and centres

  • Soil

    Due to climate and ecological changes, Christians today face existential questions, as well as questions of faith: how do we relate to the earth in a way that is theologically justified? This interdisciplinary five-year research project takes ‘soil’ as its starting point.

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  • Moral Compass Project

    What significance could a ‘moral compass’ have for our human knowledge and experience of the ‘good’? How does a transcendent ‘Good’ relate to ‘good’ that people can discover and experience by themselves? Can we speak meaningfully about the ‘good’ as something that precedes our human understanding of morality, while at the same time needing to be discovered anew in new situations?

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  • Centre for Contextual Biblical Interpretation

  • Centre for Early Jewish Hermeneutics

    In the Centre for Early Jewish Hermeneutics (CEJH), scholars from VU University, the University of Groningen, and the Protestant Theological University work together to study early Jewish exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament.

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  • Centre for Theology and Christianity Worldwide

  • Comenius

  • Institute for Ritual and Liturgical Studies

  • International Reformed Theological Institute

  • OJKC - Centre for Youth, Church and Culture