Brief Biography

Anne Claar Thomasson-Rosingh

Tel: 01722 424814

Email: acthomasson-rosingh@stets.ac.uk

Teaching & Research

My PhD research was in the interplay between  Feminist Theology and Basil of Caesarea’s De Spiritu Sancto (a treatise on the Holy Spirit written around 376 in Capadocia – now Central Turkey). The PhD had an emphasis on the gifts of the Spirit. Hopefully it will be published in due course. At STETS I teach Biblical Studies. I have revived my interest in Hebrew and done some initial research in Isaiah, Romans and Matthew.  I am looking into the interrelationship between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. I hope to do semantic research into Hebrew terms for ‘justice’ and ‘salvation’.  

Publications

Anne Claar Rosingh (2007), ‘A Silent God’, in Preek der Preken. Online eigentijdse overdenkingen en meditaties van remonstrantse predikanten, red. T. Mikkers. [Sermon in a one-copy book for Mijnke Bosman-Huizinga, now published on the internet: www.remonstranten.org/mijnke/mijrosingh.htm. Accessed on the 30th of August 2009]

Anne Claar Rosingh (2008), ‘Enthousiast of ingetogen. De ontmoeting met Jezus’, in Een mens – vol van Geest; Jezus in Woord en beeld, red. B. Dicou en J. Goud, Zoetermeer: Meinema. [Article on the difference in the experience of Jesus between Evangelicals and Liberals in a book about Jesus]

Leisure interests

For leisure I enjoy playing games (like Settlers of Catan), badminton, flying a kite, cycling, walking, singing, watching films eating out and reading.

 I was born in the north of Ghana (West Africa) where my parents worked as ministers and ecumenical lay trainers for the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. When I was four we settled  in Rijssen a Dutch town near the German border. I studied education in Ede (Netherlands at the Christelijke Hogeschool Ede) and received a B Ed. I studied theology in Utrecht (at the then Katholieke Theologische Universiteit now Tilburg University) and received an MA. In Leiden I did my ordination training for the Remonstrant Church and in Geneva I studied ecumenical studies with the WCC. My PhD is from Manchester University in feminist pneumatology and Basil of Ceasarea.  I worked as an ordained  Remonstrant minister in the parish of  Maastricht. In England I worked as a FE-college chaplain in Myerscough College (Lanchashire) and an advisor for lay ministry in the Bristol diocese. I am married to  Keith Thomasson a priest in the Church of England and we have three young children Susannah,  Reuben and Johan.