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Gerrit Glas (born 31 August 1954,
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) studied
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at the
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and
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at the
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. He worked as a
psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...
at the Ziekenhuis Zwolse Poort in the
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and got his promotion in 1990 on the subject
anxiety disorder Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear such that a person's social, occupational, and personal functions are significantly impaired. Anxiety may cause phys ...
. Since 1991, he has been a professor of
Reformational philosophy Reformational philosophy of society is a neo-Calvinistic movement pioneered by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven that seeks to develop philosophical thought in a Reformed Christian direction. It is related to the idea of a polit ...
at the Universiteit van Leiden. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Christian Philosophy (
Dooyeweerd Herman Dooyeweerd, also spelled Herman Dooijeweerd (7 October 1894, Amsterdam – 12 February 1977, Amsterdam), was a professor of law and jurisprudence at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam from 1926 to 1965. He was also a philosopher and princ ...
chair) at the
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. He has written a broad chapter about
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in the book ''Kennis en werkelijkheid''. Glas is associated with the
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.Association for Reformational Philosophy website
/ref> Along with prof. dr. ir. Henk Jochemsen, he wrote the book ''Verantwoord medisch handelen''.


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at Leiden University 1954 births Living people 20th-century Dutch philosophers 21st-century Dutch philosophers Dutch psychiatrists Calvinist and Reformed philosophers Protestant Church Christians from the Netherlands People from Ede, Netherlands University of Amsterdam alumni Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni Utrecht University alumni Academic staff of Leiden University Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam {{Christian-philosopher-stub