Gerardus van der Leeuw

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Gerardus van der Leeuw


Born
in Den Haag, Netherlands
March 18, 1890

Died
November 18, 1950

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Gerardus van der Leeuw was a Dutch historian and philosopher of religion.
He is best known for his work Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenology, an application of philosophical phenomenology to religion. It was first published in 1933 under the German title Phänomenologie der Religion and translated into English in 1938.
From 1945–1946 van der Leeuw was minister of Education of the Netherlands for the Labour Party. Before the war he had been a member of the conservative Christian Historical Union.

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Religion in Essence and Man...

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The Bible as a Book

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Goden en menschen in Hellas

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“Religion and art are parallel lines which intersect only at infinity and meet in God.”
Gerardus van der Leeuw, Sacred and Profane Beauty: The Holy in Art