Prof. Dr. Walter Van Herck

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Other institution(s)

Universiteit Antwerpen

von Hügel Institute, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, UK

Research Focus

Philosophy

Religion

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About

Walter Van Herck (°Mortsel, 1962) studied philosophy at UAntwerpen and KU Leuven. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the KU Leuven in 1996. His main research interests are 18th century philosophy and philosophy of religion. Full time associate professor at UAntwerpen and guest professor at UGent. Editor in Chief of International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (published by Routledge, see www.tandfonline.com/rjpt).

Publications

Most recent publications

Van Herck, Walter. Geen Gedachte God : Een Inleiding Tot de Filosofie van de Religie. University Press Antwerp, 2020.
Van Herck, Walter, and Angelika Drigo. “The Plausibility of Pure Religion : Olivier Roy’s Thesis about the Separation between Religion and Culture.” TORONTO JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY, vol. 35, no. 2, 2019, pp. 150–60, doi:10.3138/tjt.2019-0097.
Van Herck, Walter. “Enlightened Presuppositions of (Spiritually Motivated) Cross-Ritual Participation.” Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue : Dialogue, Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations, edited by Marianne Moyaert and Joris Geldhof, Bloomsbury, 2015, pp. 43–52.

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