
Dr. K.L. Bom
Dr. Klaas Bom is docent dogmatiek in Groningen en maakt deel uit van de leerstoelgroep Interculturele Theologie.
Dr. Klaas Bom (1967) is assistent professor dogmatics at Groningen and is part of the team 'Intercultural Theology'.
Klaas Bom studied at Utrecht and Paris and obtained a PhD from Utrecht University (1999). He is a minister of the Protestants Church in the Netherlands (PCN) and served as a pastor in Gouda (2003-2009). Before coming to the PThU in 2014, he lectured systematic theology in Managua (FEET, 1999-2003) and Quito (SEMISUD, 2009 - 2014) on behalf of KerkinActie, the mission department of the PCN. From 2014-2018 he worked as a senior researcher of the research and formation project 'Science and Religion in French-speaking Africa' a cooperation between the PThU and Templeton World Charity Foundation.
His research interests are systematic (theological) anthropology (grace and emotions), pneumatology, Blaise Pascal and (Latin American) Pentecostalism.
Recent publications
- 2020 Klaas Bom and Benno van den Toren, Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religion Debate. Intercultural contributions from French-speaking Africa. Leiden-Boston, Brill.
- 2020.Thandi Soko - de Jong and Klaas Bom, "The Changing power of Pentecostalism" in Madelon Grant (ed.) The image of God. The Worldwide Chruch ans its Political Mission, Sallux Pulbishing,128-140.
- 2019 Klaas Bom, "A Fresh Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences' from French-speaking Africa' Exchange 48, 51-72.