Calling of the Church in Times of Polarization

Heleen E. Zorgdrager, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor of Systematic Theology and Gender Studies at Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam, and Visiting Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv. She has published on sexuality, gender, and rethinking Protestant soteriology from the tradition of theosis. Pieter H. Vos, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Military Chaplaincy Studies and associate professor of Ethics at Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam/Groningen. He is Director of the International Reformed Theological Institute. His publications include Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism (2020).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionPieter VosPART 1: Polarization in Church and Society1 Can Conviviality Trump Polarization? Exploring the Notion of Conviviality as Calling of the Church in Times of PolarizationNadine Bowers Du Toit2 Re-forming the Conversation as a Response to Polarization: A Case Study Exploration of the Dallas StatementThandi Soko-de Jong3 Retrieving the Concept of Unio Mystica cum Christo and Applying It to Concepts of Sexuality in a Pluralistic Postmodern CultureWillem van Vlastuin4 Theological Assessment of the Gender and Sexuality Debate in the Netherlands: The Case of the ‘Nashville Statement’Heleen Zorgdrager5 Passivity, Abuse, and Self-Sacrifice: Daoism and Feminist ChristologyJaeseung Cha6 “Remove the Sandals from Your Feet”: Holiness in the Dutch Euthanasia DebateAnnemarieke van der Woude7 Sowing Hope in a Polarized Agricultural DebateJan Jorrit Hasselaar, Phillipp Pattberg and Peter-Ben SmitPART 2: Polarization and the Reformed Tradition8 Reformed Social Theology: Contexts and ConstantsDavid Fergusson9 Preclude to a “Post-xenophobic” Future: Interrogating the 1618 Baptism Debate at the Synod of DortDavid Douglas Daniels III10 Protestant Schools and Hospitals in the Context of Religious Polarization in YogyakartaJozef Mepibozef Nelsun Hehanussa11 Election and Hope: Van Ruler and DortAllan J. Janssen12 Polarization and the Pursuit of Unanimity in the Church: Ecclesiastical Decision-Making in the Dutch Reformed TraditionKlaas-Willem de Jong and Jan Dirk WassenaarPART 3: The Calling of the Church13 Fighting against Polarization: The Indonesian Communion of Churches, Religious Plurality and Sexual Orientations in IndonesiaEmanuel Gerrit Singgih14 Developing Koinonia in an Age of PolarizationThe Significance of Ecumenical Dialogue, with Particular Reference to The International Reformed Anglican Dialogue (2015–2020)Elizabeth Welch15 No Calling without Being Called: The Vocatio Interna at the Heart of SanctificationHenk van den Belt16 ‘They Are in the World, But Not of the World’: Biblical and Contextual Reflections on Church, Alterity and Self-OtherizingNajib George Awad17 Theology of Migration in the Discourse of the World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Hungary (2015–2019)Viktória Kóczián18 Against Polarization: Forming a Sense of ‘Otherness’ from a Conversation between Anthropology and Neo-calvinismLouise Charlotte PrideauxEpilogueHeleen ZorgdragerIndex