Brief Biography

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 three we moved back to the Netherlands and when I was four we settled in Rijssen a town near the German border. I went to teacher training college before going to university in Utrecht for a Masters in Theology. In Leiden I did my ordination training for the Remonstrant Church. After a term in Geneva to study ecumenical studies with the WCC, I was ordained as a Remonstrant minister in Maastricht. But in Geneva I had met a Church of England ordinand, Keith, and it was not long before I found a job as a FE-college chaplain in Myerscough and married to live in Lancashire. I also started studies for a PhD at Manchester university. In the last five years three children were born into our family; Susannah (4,5); Reuben (3) and Johan (1,5), we moved to Bristol and I completed my PhD.

Teaching & Research

My PhD is an 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 has an emphasis on the gifts of the Spirit. Now I am refocusing on an other interest area: the Old Testament and hope to do some research on Jacob.

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 with my family: flying a kite in Weston super Mare or learning to ride a bike on the back lawn or watching the gorillas in the zoo. I enjoy walking especially with my husband and we frequent Westonbirt arboretum for that purpose. I like riding my bicycle (not fast, preferably to get somewhere, often with trailer and children), playing volleyball (I train when work permits with City of Bristol Volleyball Club the 1st ladies team), singing (currently in a community choir for under fours and parents – we just produced a CD), going to the cinema or watching a DVD at home, playing board games like The Settlers of Catan or Carcasonne, eating out, visiting the Netherlands and reading.