{"id":172031,"date":"2024-10-02T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=172031"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:30","slug":"after-fifteen-years-of-work-professor-van-geest-presented-his-encyclopedia-to-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/10\/02\/after-fifteen-years-of-work-professor-van-geest-presented-his-encyclopedia-to-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"After fifteen years of work, Professor Van Geest presented his encyclopedia to the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, Paul van Geest, Professor of Theology and Economic Thinking, <\/span>worked on a compendium about early Christianity. Recently, he was granted an <\/span>audience with the Pope to present the encyclopedia. \u201cYou\u2019d love to have such a <\/span>kind grandfather.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul van Geest (left) handed Pope Francis the first volume of the encyclopedia.<\/span><\/p>

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It was impressive, says church historian and professor Paul van Geest (ESPhil) <\/span>about his meeting with Pope Francis. Two weeks ago, he handed over the first <\/span>copy of the <\/span>Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity<\/span> to the leader of the Catholic <\/span>Church. The six-volume encyclopedia is an extensive academic reference work <\/span>dedicated to the study of early Christianity, which Van Geest worked on for <\/span>fifteen years together with two colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t

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