Prof. dr. Joop Boendermaker

prof. dr. J.P. Boendermaker

One of Kooiman’s students was Johannes Pieter (Joop) Boendermaker. The son of Pieter Boendermaker (1893-1977), Lutheran pastor and professor at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, Joop Boendermaker studied theology in Amsterdam and Erlangen. He was pastor in the Lutheran congregations of Eindhoven (1951-1963) and Naarden-Bussum (1964-1969).

After a year of study in Heidelberg, he received his doctorate in 1965 for a dissertation on Luther’s commentary on the letter to the Hebrews, 1517-1518, with Kooiman as supervisor. In 1968 he became the latter’s successor as professor at the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, thus in a sense following in his father’s footsteps.

Boendermaker’s duties were even broader than Kooiman’s, but Luther’s theology and liturgy were central to him as well.

Prof. Dr. J.P. Boendermaker further developed the approach to Luther that he had learned from Kooiman. In his Luther lectures, reading and studying Luther’s texts came first, interspersed only with short lectures to clarify the context.

Prof. Dr. Sabine Hiebsch was appointed special professor at the Kooiman-Boendermaker Chair in Luther and the History of (Dutch) Lutheranism on Oct. 31, 2017. Click here for more information about this special chair.

Click here for more information about Prof. Dr. Willem Kooiman.

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