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Hans Boersma | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Netherlands |
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Ecclesiastical career | |
Religion | Christianity (Anglican) |
Church | Anglican Church in North America[1] |
Ordained | 2021 (deacon)[2] 2021 (priest)[3] |
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Thesis | A Hot Pepper Corn (1993) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Theology |
Sub-discipline | |
School or tradition | Reformed Christianity |
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Website | hansboersma |
Hans Boersma (born 1961) is a Dutch-Canadian Anglican theologian specialising in patristics, sacramental theology, and nouvelle théologie.[4] He is of Reformed background,[5] but has become a convert and a priest in the Anglican Church in North America.[6]
Boersma holds degrees from the University of Lethbridge, the Theological College of the Canadian Reformed Churches, and Utrecht University.
He previously taught at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC (1999–2005) and served as the J. I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College from 2005 to 2019. Boersma held the Danforth Visiting Chair at St. Louis University from 2015 to 2016. He currently holds the Chair to the Order of St. Benedict Servants of Christ Endowed Professorship in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House, a theological seminary in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.[7]
From 2003 until 2004, Boersma was the President of the Canadian-American Theological Association, a forum for scholarly contributions to the renewal of theology and biblical interpretation.[8]