Current positions
- From oktober 2018, Distinguished Lecturer ESAA/EUR (Rotterdam)
- From 2017: Member Works Council (Ondernemingsraad) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- From 2017: Member of Research Project ‘What Good Markets are Good for’ (Templeton project)
- From 2015: Chair of the Herman Bavinck Center for Reformed and Evangelical Theology (HBCRET) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
- From 2008: Professor of Systematic Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- From 2006: Member in Residence Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton (Research in Spirit-Christology)
- From 2003: Member of GEESTkracht, Bulletin voor Charismatische Theologie
- From 2002: Member of Kerk & Theologie (president: 2017-present)
Past positions
- 2014-2016 – Advisor of the Protestantse Kerk Nederland
- 2014 – Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures, Princeton Theological Seminary
- 2012 – Temporary visiting Fellow Fuller Seminary, United States of America
- 2007-2015 – Head of department for Dogmatics and Ecumenics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 2003-2015 – Chair of the Center of Evangelical and Reformation Theology (CERT) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 2003-2008 – Associated Professor Systematic Theology and Holder of the Chair of Theology of Charismatic Renewal at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 1992-2002 – Lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- July 1992 – December 1992 – Fulbright-scholarship. Senior-fellow at the Institute of the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Inquiry into late medieval Philosophy and theological background of Calvin and social embeddedness of his thought. (R.M. Kingdon, W.J. Courtney)
- April – July 1992 – Post-doc (funded by NOW), Faculty of Theology at University of Leiden
- 1984-1992 – Minister of the Reformed Church of Leimuiden (Zuid-Holland)
- March 22, 1984, PhD (cum laude) at the Vrije Universiteit on: De denkweg van de jonge Karl Barth. Een analyse van de ontwikkeling van zijn theologie in de jaren 1909-1927 in het licht van de vraag naar de geloofsverantwoording, Amsterdam 1984. German edition published with Kaiser-Verlag, München 1987. Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Veenhof, copromotor: prof.dr. H.J. Adriaanse.
- 1982-1984 – Part time payed by NWO
- 1980-1982 – Part time Adjunct Wetenschappelijke ambtenaar, Vrije Universiteit
- 1979-1980 – Wintersemester at University of Tübingen, Germany (Jüngel, Moltmann, Küng)
- 1973-1980 – Research Assistant in Church History and Dogmatic Theology
Personal details
- Since 13 June 1975 married to Margriet A.Th. van der Kooi-Dijkstra, four children, nine grandchildren
- 1972-1980 – Study Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 1966-1972 – Christelijk Gymnasium, Leeuwarden
- 4 October 1952 – Born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands