This first installment of the AmSTaR series explores recent developments in Evangelical Christianity in the Netherlands. Dutch Evangelicalism can be understood as rooted in the Reformation, Pietism and other renewal movements. This collection of articles by a number of experts in the field reflects on the boundaries and intersections of the Evangelical tradition in the Netherlands, with a special focus on the themes of transition and fusion. In new cultural and societal circumstances, Dutch Evangelicalism is rapidly changing from a minority group of dissenters to a more established and respected movement within Protestantism and Dutch society. This raises a number of questions about identity, core values, practices and beliefs. The contributors to this volume explore these issues from historical, practical-theological, political, biblical-theological and hermeneutical perspectives in an attempt to understand the role and significance of Evangelical faith in the twenty-first century.

Before summer 2012, three more volumes in this new series are expected:

• Binsar Jonathan Pakpahan, God remembers. Towards a Theology of Remembrance as a Basis of Reconciliation in Communal Conflict
• Peter Ben Smit, Tradition in Dialogue. A  Historical Study of the Notion of Tradition in the International Bilateral Dialogues of the Anglican Communion
• Govert Buijs, Thijl Sunier, Peter Versteeg and Henk Vroom (eds.), Democracy, Culture, and Religion: Sources, Contexts and Debates

Tussen tekst en lezer biedt een historische inleiding in de bijbelse hermeneutiek in twee delen. In dit eerste deel wordt de geschiedenis van de bijbeluitleg beschreven vanaf de eerste kerkvaders tot en met Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834). Het tweede deel zal gewijd zijn aan de ontwikkelingen in de twintigste en eenentwintigste eeuw.

Dr. Arie W. Zwiep (1964) is universitair docent Nieuwe Testament en Hermeneutiek aan de faculteit Godgeleerdheid van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam en doceert daarnaast aan de Christelijke Hogeschool Ede. Eerder publiceerde hij onder meer The Ascension of the Messiah in Lukan Christology (Leiden 1997) en Judas and the Choice of Matthias (Tübingen 2004).