Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: I feel deeply honoured by this Festschrift that colleagues and friends have written to celebrate my 75th birthday! Their contributions shed very valuable light on issues that have been of great importance to me during my life and ministry. I indeed appreciate their willingness to share their thoughts and insights in this way. They are fellow travellers in the quest for truth, the truth of God. I have the privilege of sharing my reflections and giving a response to the chapters in the Festschrift. As I do so, I will include some of my own experiences that have been significant for my theological development and thus give more background for my comments. For this reason, I do not follow the order of the chapters in the table of contents but have tried to arrange the sequence of my comments in such a way that some of my spiritual and theological development may be described as well. Therefore, I begin where the preceding chapters on spirituality left off, before moving on to the chapters on systematic theology, dividing my comments into two parts: 1) Personal experiences, practice and theological reflections and 2) Systematic theological reflections. I will have to do all this briefly, just focusing on some points. So much more of the content of the contributors’ chapters would have been worth reflecting on.
Author: Øyvind Gaarder Andersen
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7225404387