Dr. Dr. Meins G.S. Coetsier
Ghent University
Publications
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
IN JOURNALS AND BOOKS
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “Europe's Secularism and the Politics of the Soul,” Fides et Libertas 2011: Secularism and Religious Freedom, International Religious Liberty Association (2011): 70-88.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “‘You Consciousness’—Towards Political Theory: Etty Hillesum’s Experience and Symbolization of the Divine Presence.” In Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum: Proceedings of the Etty Hillesum Conference at Ghent University, November 2008 (Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy). Eds. Klaas A.D. Smelik, Ria van den Brandt, and Meins G.S. Coetsier, 103-125. Boston: Brill, 2010.
Copyright 2011 by Meins G.S. Coetsier & Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP.
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Coetsier, Meins G.S., “Between Realities: Dawkins vs. Voegelin,” Modern Age: A Quarterly Review 51, no. 3 & 4, (Summer/Fall 2009): 220-230. [Special Double Issue]
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Coetsier, Meins G.S., “Strijd om God: Om het behoud van de menselijke waardigheid.” Tijdschrift voor theologie 49, no. 4 (2009): 373–390.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “Etty Hillesum als hedendaagse spirituele figuur voor joden en christenen.” In Wil er iemand mijn Messias zijn? Nieuwe verlossers en hedendaagse spirituele meesters. Edited by Didier Pollefeyt & Ellen de Boeck, 145-179. Louvain: Acco, 2010.
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Coetsier, Meins G.S., “Etty Hillesum and the Light of Faith: A Voegelinian Analysis.” Modern Age: A Quarterly Review 50, no. 3 (2008): 198–206.
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Coetsier, Meins G.S., “God? . . . Licht in het duister. Twee denkers in barre tijden: De Duitse filosoof Eric Voegelin en de Nederlands-Joodse schrijfster Etty Hillesum.” In Etty Hillesum in context. Edited by Klaas A.D. Smelik & Ria van den Brandt, 16–35. Assen: Van Gorcum, 2007.
BOOKS AS AUTHOR
Coetsier, Meins G.S., Etty Hillesum and the Spiritual Search: An Analysis of the Diaries and Letters 1941-1943 in the light of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ghent University / University Press: a non-commercial publication of Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Comparative Science of Cultures, Belgium, 2011, 640pp.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy of Luminous Participation in the Transcendent Ground of Being, Ghent University: a non-commercial publication of Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Belgium, 2008, 369pp.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence: A Voegelinian Analysis, Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy. Studies in Religion and Politics. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008, 228pp.
Copyright 2009 by Journal Theological Studies.
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Review by Prof. Dr. Hans Zollner in the quarterly published by the Gregorian University, Gregorianum n.90/4 (2009): 916-917.
Review by Dr. Nicoletta Stradaioli in the Italian scientific periodical Il pensiero politico: rivista di storia delle idee politiche e sociali, Anno XLIII, n. 2, Firenze: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 2010.
Italian Review of Etty Hillesum and the
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Exegesis of a Mystic's Experience, A book review by Prof. Dr. Macon Boczek (Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Duqesne University)
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VoegelinView: "The Remarkable Adequacy of Voegelin's Philosophy. Macon Boczek offers us her appraisal of Meins Coetsier's Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence, the first biography employing the full range of Voegelinian analysis: 'We can understand Voegelin better through our reading of Etty Hillesum’s less academic and more everyday life, poetic examples in her letters and diaries.... [which] reveal a total and mature religious surrender.'"
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VoegelinView: "The Girl Who Could Not Kneel. Meins Coetsier decided to apply Voegelinian analysis to the biography and writings of a woman who became a victim of the Nazis and a mystic. Macon Boczek reviewed the book for us yesterday, and today we may learn, among other things: 'Her opening of soul did not conquer any piece of land, nor did it prevent any of her fellow Jews being murdered, but through it, she discovered in her psyche a new center of love. . .' Read part 1 of 'Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence.'"
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VoegelinView:"To Look Suffering Straight in the Eyes:
Meins Coetsier continues his Voegelinian analysis of Etty Hillesum's spiritual growth amidst horror: '[The truth] is found in balancing the variety of passages to reach a portrait that catches the struggle between light and darkness that continued throughout her life. . . . She did not lose contact with her surrounding reality, including the divine reality, nor as a writer did she become a victim of the degeneration of language.' Read part 2 of 'Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence.'"
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PUBLICATIONS AS SCIENTIFIC EDITOR
Coetsier, Meins G.S., Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum: Proceedings of the Etty Hillesum Conference at Ghent University, November 2008 (Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy). Eds. Klaas A.D. Smelik, Ria van den Brandt, and Meins G.S. Coetsier. Boston: Brill, 2010, 483pp.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES
Coetsier, Meins G.S., "The Life of Dialogue: Etty Hillesum and Martin Buber," Etty Hillesum Symposium, Ghent University & FWO. Ghent, 2012.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “No God on the Horizon? Voegelin, Buber and Bonhoeffer & the Moment of Surrender.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Washington, DC, 2010: 1-35.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “A Heaven-Gram for World Politics: Hillesum, Heschel and Rilke Rescuing God in Exile.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Toronto, 2009: 1–16.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “The life and writings of Etty Hillesum.” Lecture, Ghent University, 2009.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “‘You Consciousness.’ Towards political theory: Etty Hillesum’s experience and symbolization of the divine presence.” International Etty Hillesum Conference, Ghent University & FWO. Ghent, 2008.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “Etty Hillesum and the Experience of Reason {Voegelin, Buber & Levinas}.” Visiting Speaker Series, Department of Philosophy, Seminar Room of the Moore Institute, Galway University. Galway, 2008.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “Etty Hillesum als hedendaagse spirituele figuur voor joden en christenen.” Postacademische Vorming K.U. Leuven Vliebergh-Sencie Leergangen. Louvain, 2008.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “‘God, the Creative Ground of Existence’ in Voegelin, Etty Hillesum and Martin Buber: A Response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Boston, 2008: 1–20.
Coetsier, Meins G.S., “‘Heaven in Hell’: A Voegelinian Exploration of the Life and Writings of Etty Hillesum.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Chicago, 2007: 1–7.
INTERNAL REPORTS
EHOC Bulletin. Vol. 1, Eds. Meins G.S. Coetsier & Klaas A.D. Smelik, EHOC, (December 2006).
EHOC Bulletin. Vol. 2, Eds. Meins G.S. Coetsier & Klaas A.D. Smelik, Van Gorcum, (June 2007).
EHOC Bulletin. Vol. 3, Eds. Meins G.S. Coetsier & Klaas A.D. Smelik, Van Gorcum, (December 2007).
EHOC Bulletin. Vol. 4, Eds. Meins G.S. Coetsier & Klaas A.D. Smelik, Van Gorcum, (August 2008).
EHOC Bulletin. Vol. 5, Eds. Meins G.S. Coetsier & Klaas A.D. Smelik, Van Gorcum, (January 2009).
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