Harry M. Kuitert

Harminus Martinus "Harry" Kuitert (11 November 1924 in Drachten – 8 September 2017 in Amstelveen) was a theologian of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (GKN).

[1] Later, after writing voluminously, critically, and appreciatively on Karl Barth, Kuitert later moved on to a totally unorthodox stance on Jesus Christ, skipping neo-orthodoxy altogether.

According to Ecumenical News International, Kuitert, after his own emeritation in 1989, and by now the most widely read theologian in the Netherlands, broke completely with Berkouwer and "Middle Orthodox" tradition (the theological mainstream of the reformed church) in his book, Jesus, the Inheritance of Christianity (1998).

Another widely read book, both by Protestants and Catholics, is his Het algemeen betwijfeld christelijk geloof (1992), translated as I have my doubts: how to become a Christian without being a fundamentalist (1993).

In this book he gives a succinct overview of the gaps he perceives between tradition, dogma, the classic Christian theological themes and the questions of people nowadays.