Teaching and Tradition: On Their Dynamic Interaction

This book focuses on the crucial role of teaching in the process of tradition. The various essays present case studies, written by specialists in the field, on themes drawn from the biblical, Jewish and Christian practice of ’tradition’, the passing on of faith from generation to generation. Underlying these essays is the conviction that teaching is a privileged context for the study of tradition, since it always both preserves and renews tradition. There is no tradition without teaching, in which the past is interpreted in the present and the present is seen in the light of the past.

Contributors are: Jan Bouwens, Rob V.J. Faesen, Leon Mock, Jos Moons, Krijn Pansters, Henk J. M. Schoot, Rudi A. te Velde, Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen, and Ruben J. van Wingerden.

Jos Moons, PhD (2018), is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at KU Leuven. Recent publications include The Holy Spirit, the Church, and Pneumatological Renewal (Brill, 2022), Synodality and the Roman-Catholic Church. An Academic Bibliography 2013-2022 (Cahiers Internationaux de Théologie Pratique, 2023), and The Holy Spirit as the Protagonist of the Synod. Pope Francis’s Creative Reception of the Second Vatican Council (Theological Studies, 2023).

Rudi A. te Velde, PhD (1991), is lecturer in philosophy and professor in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas in relation to contemporary thought at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. His many publications include Aquinas on God (Ashgate, 2006) and Metaphysics between Experience and Transcendence (Aschendorff, 2021).

Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, PhD (1993), is Professor of Old Testament at the School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University. He has published especially on prophetic literature and communication-oriented analysis. He is the co-editor of Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation, /i> (Brill, 2021) and co-author along with Frank G. Bosman of Video games as Art (De Gruyter, 2022).