Anné Hendrik Verhoef is an associate professor in philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch and at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. In 2008 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the relation between time and the Trinity. His interests are in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, hermeneutics, ethics, and the philosophy of happiness. His research focuses mainly on transcendence and the transcendent in contemporary culture, and its relation to ethics, politics, meaning of life and happiness. He is the author/co-author of various chapters in books and articles in national and international scientific journals and conference papers. He is the associate editor of the academic journal Transformation in Higher Education.