Niels Henrik Gregersen

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Brief Curriculum Vitae: Professor Niels Henrik Gregersen

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Academic Degrees

1987 PhD in Theology from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH).

1983 MA in Theology, UCPH.

Employment

2004-now Professor of Systematic Theology, UCPH.

2000-2004 Research Professor of Theology and Science, Aarhus University.

1989-2000 Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Aarhus University.

1996-1997 Research Fellow, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton.

1986-1989 Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, Aarhus University.

Scholarly Focus

(1) Within the field of systematic theology, he specializes in the theology of creation and Christology, especially developing the idea of “deep incarnation”.

(2) Within the field of science & religion, he specializes in the philosophy of Darwinian biology and the sciences of complexity, especially concepts of self-organization and information.

(3) Within philosophy, he specializes in phenomenology and resonance theory.

Named Public Lectures  

2024 The Samuel Ferguson lecture, Manchester, UK

2022 The Interface Lectures on Science and Religion, Vancouver, CA (three lectures)

2018 Visiting Professor, University of Halle.

2017 The Goshen Lectures, Goshen College, Indiana, US (three lectures).

2013 The J.K. Russell Research Fellowship in Religion and Science, Center for Theology and Science, Berkeley (two lectures)

2004 The J.K. Russell Research Fellowship in Religion and Science, Center for Theology and Science, Berkeley (two lectures)

Management Experience

2024-2027: PI of Carnal: Eco-Ethical Articulations of Body, Meat, and Flesh (5,7 mill.; Velux Foundation)

2023-2028: PI & co-Director of Centre for Science and Faith at UCPH (10,2 mill DKK; Samfonden)

2016-2019: PM for theology of Protestant Nordic Law (ProNoLa) (8 mill. DKK; HERA Foundation) 

2014-2017 PI of The Danish Reformation Project (2,8 mio DKK, from Danish government).

2013-2017 Co-PI of the UCPH Excellence Program for Interdisciplinary Research, Changing Disasters (18,1 mio DKK)

2008-2013 Co-PI of the Centre for Naturalism & Christian Semantics at the Faculty of

Theology, funded by UCPH “Star Research Program” (14,2 mio DKK).

1993-2000 Founder and chair of the Løgstrup Archives, Aarhus University (c. 1,2 mio DKK).

1992-2003 Organizational leader of the Danish Science-Theology Forum, Aarhus University (50 DKK a year).

International Management Roles

2023-: President of International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR).

2017- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Faculty of Theology, Vienna.

2003-2010 Chairperson of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France.

2002-2007 Co-founder (with John Polkinghorne et al.) and Trustee of International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR).

2002-2003 President of The Learned Society, Aarhus University.

1998-2002 Vice-President of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology

(ESSSAT), responsible for its publication program.

Editorial boards

2007-2014 Editor-in-chief of Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift (DTT).

2014-2019 Inaugural Editor of Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (PTSc).

Editorial boards: Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (2014-); Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift (1990-): Dialog: A Journal of Theology (1999-); Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (2000-), Theology and Science (2004-), AGATHEOS: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion (2024-),.

Academic Awards and Honors

2016 Order of Dannebrog, conferred by Queen Margrethe II

1999 Award of $ 100.000 from Templeton Foundation for work on the constructive interface between science and religion.

1999 ‘Outstanding paper' award of $ 3.000 from the Templeton Foundation for the article, “The Idea of Creation and the Theory of Autopoietic Processes”, Zygon 33:1.

 Publications in numbers

Total +700 publications: + 200 journal papers, + 180 book chapters, 7 books, 3 co-authored books, some thirty edited or co-edited books. 

 Invited lecturer

In Europe: Oxford, Cambridge, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, St. Andrews. Heidelberg, Tübingen, Munich, Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Halle. Paris, Lyon, Rome, Bologna, Madrid, Tallinn, Tartu, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Moscow.

In the Nordic: Lund, Gothenburg, Uppsala. Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger. Aarhus, Odense, Roskilde, Aalborg.

In the US: Princeton, Berkeley, Chicago, St. Paul, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Boston.

In Africa: University of South Africa, University of Cape Town, University of Durban, University of Stellenbosch.

In Asia: Beijing Normal University & Tsinghua University, Beijing; Fudan University & Tongi University, Shanghai; Nanjing University and Nanjing Theological Seminary, Universities in Wuhan and Chonqing.  Ryokoku University, Kyoto, Japan; Seoul Presbyterian Seminary & Kangnam University, Seoul.

In Australia: Canberra University.

Translations Parts of his work has been translated into ten languages (Swedish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Rumanian, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese).

2. Oversigt på dansk over mine forskningsområder med særlige tyngdepunkter baseret på forskningsmidler

A. Overordnede forskningsområder

Jeg har beskæftiget mig med tre overordnede områder: (1) Samtidsteologi, (2)  Religion & Naturvidenskab, og (3) Fænomenologiske og livsfilosofiske bidrag til interdisciplinære temaer 

(1) Samtidsteologi (systematisk teologi). Det grundlæggende spørgsmål er her, hvad kristendommen er og kan betyde i en nutidig kontekst. Som baggrund herfor er forholdet mellem Luther og Grundtvig en central akse, men af nyere inspirationer må nævnes K.E. Løgstrup og Wolfhart Pannenberg. Jeg har herunder forsøgt at skrive om de fleste klassiske temaer i kristendommen: gudsbilledet, skabelse og forsyn, mennesket på godt og ondt, inkarnation og kristologi, kirkesyn og sakramentslære, samt synet på liv, død og evigt liv i den kristne tradition. Hvordan kan man tænke og tale om alt dette i dag? 

(2) Religion & Naturvidenskab: Det grundlæggende spørgsmål er her, hvordan de moderne naturvidenskaber, både kritisk og konstruktivt, kan bidrage til en nyformulering af en religiøs livsforståelse  i vores tid. Jeg har her foretaget en vis specialisering inden for darwinismen (i dens forskellige skikkelser) og de moderne kompleksitetsvidenskaber (herunder informationsvidenskab). Hvordan sætter naturvidenskaberne grænser for moderne teologi? Og hvordan kan teologien selv bidrage til forståelsen af den natur, vi har omkring os, og som vi selv er?  - Om disse emner har jeg mest skrevet på engelsk, da det er her, de store debatter foregår. 

(3) Fænomenologi og livsfilosofi er i mit arbejde en integreret del af teologisk og tværfaglig tænkning. Det afgørende spørgsmål er her, hvordan man kan følge vandringen af centrale brobyggende begreber og ideer inden for teologi, filosofi og videnskab. Hvordan har fx. klassisk teologiske begreber som tro, håb og kærlighed åbnet for nærliggende fænomener som tillid, mod og omsorg for andre, også for den ikke-menneskelige verden? Hvad har resonans og skabelsesteologi, generøsitet og nåde med hinanden at gøre? Hvilken betydning har sansen for risiko, fare og krise for nutidige måder at leve livet og forstå tilværelsen på? 

B. Tyngdepunkter baseret på forskningsbevillinger 

(1) Videnskab og tro

Fra sommeren 2023 har jeg sammen med prof. Per Sangild (medicin)  fået en god bevilling fra Samfonden til at oprette et Center for Videnskab og Tro på Københavns Universitet, placeret på Det Teologiske Fakultet. Opgaven bliver her at levere international og dansk forskning til feltet i bred forstand. En særlig opmærksomhed vies forholdet mellem Øst og Vest, særligt forholdet Indien og Kina og vestlig tænkning om videnskab, filosofi og spiritualitet. Desuden bliver opgaven at  formulere en offentlighedsvirksom tænkning om de mange emner, der går på tværs af fakulteterne, og som offentligheden har brug for at få mere viden om. Både forskning og formidling vil ske i samarbejde med andre, både nationalt og internationalt.

(2) Jura og teologi i Norden

I perioden fra 2016 til 2020 var jeg med i forskningsprojkektet, Protestant Nordic Law (PRONOLA), ledet af juraprofessor Lisbet Christoffersen. Foruden en række artikler (der også hang sammen studier om reformationens længdevirkinger, se nedenfor), har jeg været medudgiver af et større værk, Globalization and Re-Confessionalization: Protestant Nordic Law 1945-2017 (Southern Danish University Press, 2022). Her skrev jeg bl.a.  om K.E. Løgstrup og Regin Prenters opfattelse af lov, ret og kristendom i og efter besættelsen 1940-45.   

(3) Teologi og katastrofeforskning

I forbindelse med oprettelsen af "Changing Disasters"-programmet på Københavns Universitet (2013-2016) fungerede jeg sammen med Isak Winkel Holm som forskningsleder på den del af programmet, der drejer sig om "Imagining Disasters". De teologiske bidrag udarbejdedes i et samarbejde med post.doc. (nu lektor) Christine Tind Johannessen-Henry og ph.d.-studerende (nu adjunkt) Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen.  

Mine egne bidrag koncentrerede sig om klimaforandringerne i Systematic Theology and Climate Change (Routledge, 2014) og om teologi og katestrofeteori i Disaster Studies: International and Multidisciplinary Approaches (Routledge, 2015). Herudover tre temanumre i tidsskrifter: a) "Katastrofens teologi", Kritisk Forum for Praktisk Teologi nr. 141, september 2015, b) "Endangered Selves and Societies", Dialog: A Journal of Theology, autumn 2017, and c) "Risk and Resonance", Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences, Spring 2018.

(4) Reformationen 1517 i længdeperspektiv 

Baseret på en bevilling fra Kirkeministeriet i 2015-2017 er følgende blevet udgivet:

1) Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 1-3 (Syddansk Universitetsforlag,  2017), 1518 sider. Værket er redigeret sammen med kirkehistorikeren Carsten Bach-Nielsen (Aarhus Universitet) i et samarbejde med en lang række danske forskere på tværs af faggrænser.

2) Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age: Løgstrup, Prenter, Wingren, and the Future of Scandinavian Creation Theology (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017), 274 sider. Bogen var en samlet præsentation af skandinavisk skabelsesteologi (Løgstrup, Wingren og Prenter) i en international kontekst. Arbejdet er senere fortsat, bl.a. gennem en mindre bevilling fra Nordforsk 2020-23.

3) Hvorfor er vi protestanter? Om reformationen og teologien (Eksistensen, 2017). En kort introduktion til protestantisk teologi i Forlaget Eksistensens Hvorfor...?-serie.

4) En række mindre arbejder om Luther, bl.a. "Martin Luther in Denmark", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Martin Luther (Oxford University Press,  2017). Netudgaveen er åben på "Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion" (ORER) 

(5) Naturalisme og kristendom 

I årene 2008-2013 modtog prof. Troels Engberg-Petersen som PI og jeg som Co-PI, en større bevilling fra KUs "Star Research Foundation" til oprettelse af Center for Naturalism and Christian Semantics (CNCS). Centret har givet plads til en større gruppe af yngre forskere, hvoraf flere siden har fået stillinger som lektorer og professorer på Det Teologiske Fakultet og i udlandet. Nytestamentleren Engberg-Petersens arbejder om forholdet mellem stoicisme og nytestamentlig kristendom har været trendsættende, udgivet på bl.a. Oxford University Press. Jeg selv kunne fortsætte arbejdet med Naturvidenskab & Religion.

I 2012 udgav fysikeren Paul Davies og jeg bogen Information and the Nature of Reality (Cambridge UP, 2012; nyudgivet i CUPs "Canto Classics"-serie, 2014). Sammen med Mikael Stenmark (Uppsala) udgav jeg bogen Naturalism and Beyond: Religious Naturalism and Its Alternatives (Peeters, 2016).

I den mere teologiske ende af skalaen gav centeret mig mulighed for at udfolde begrebet "deep incarnation", dvs. en måde at tænke om inkarnationen på, som omfatter ikke bare mennesket Jesus, men også menneskeligheden, og ikke kun menneskeligheden, men også materialiteteten. For "Ordet blev kød" (Johannes 1,14), ikke bare menneske. Ethvert menneske er også et jordvæsen. Den primære publikation er her Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology (Fortress Press, 2015). Desuden holdt jeg i april 2017 de tre Goshen Lectures on Science and Religion under titlen "Deep Incarnation: From Cosmos to Commitment", og i marts 2022 The Interface Lectures på Regent College, Vancouver, om dybdeinkarnation i et biologisk og økologisk perspektiv. 

Jeg har desværre ikke kunnet få forskningsmidler til andre teologiske projekter som fx. Den generøse ortodoksi: Konflikt og kontinuitet i kristendommen (Anis 2015, 5. oplag 2017) og Ind I fællesskabet: En samtidsteologi om gudsriget og det evige liv (Eksistensen 2021, 2. oplag 2022). Alligevel skylder jeg givetvis forskningscentrene den inspiration, der gjorde disse arbejder mulige. 

 

3. Publikationer i årene 2017 til 2022

                                         2022

1. Internationalization and Re-Confessionalization: Law and Religion in the Nordic Realm 1945-2017. Eds. Pamela Slotte, Niels Henrik Gregersen, and Helge Årsheim. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark 2020, 488 pp.
2. "Introduction: Internationalization and Re-Confessionalization: Law and Religion in the Nordic Realm 1945-2017.” In Internationalization and Re-Confessionalization: Law and Religion in the Nordic Realm 1945-2017. Eds. Pamela Slotte, Niels Henrik Gregersen, and Helge Årsheim. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 13-38.
3. “Nordic Lutheranism and Secular Law: The Role of Law in the Grundtvigian Creation Theologies of K.E. Løgstrup and Regin Prenter.” In Internationalization and Re-Confessionalization: Law and Religion in the Nordic Realm 1945-2017. Eds. Pamela Slotte, Niels Henrik Gregersen, and Helge Årsheim. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 41-87.
4. Bruno Petrušić & Niels Henrik Gregersen, ”The Selective Awareness Experiment: An Argument for Causal Pluralism.” Issues in Science and Theology: Creative Pluralism? Eds. Michael Fuller, Dirk Evers & Anne Runehov. Amsterdam: Springer Netherlands, 133-143.
5. ”Wentzel van Huyssteen (1942-2022) in memoriam”. International Society for Science and Reliigon. December 2022 Blog. www.issr.org.uk/blog/december-2022-blog, 1-8.
6. “Offentlighedsteologi i dansk tradition: Rødder og ruter” (medforfatter: Jonas Adelin Jørgensen). I Offentlighedsteologi: En introduktion. Red. Jonas Adelin Jørgensen, Birgitte Stoklund Larsen & Ulrik Nissen. København: Eksistensen, s. 63-96.
7. ”Folkekirkens fem bekendelsesskrifter: Bekendelser af første og anden orden”. I Bekendelser: En antologi om forpligtethed. Red. Henrik Brandt-Pedersen. København: Eksistensen, s. 95-110.
8. “Hvad har resonans med teologi at gøre?”. Arken # 170, 10-17.
9. ”Tre økologier: den fremmede, den kulturskabte og den sammenfiltrede natur – en diskussion med Cecilie Rubow”. Arken # 172, 8-16.
10. ”Hemmeligheder: Mellem slør og åbenbaring”. Bibliana 2022/#1, 1-6. https://readymag.com/u53721909/3151589/

 

                                                   2021

768.        Ind i fællesskabet. En samtidsteologi om gudsriget og det evige liv. København: Eksistensen, 448 pp. 1st ed. March 13, 2nd edition October 4, 2021.

Anmeldelser:

Thomas Reinholdt Rasmussen: ”Midt i livet begynder det evige liv”, Kristeligt Dagblad d. 12.4.2021.

Jes Nysten: ”Den generøse samtidsteologi”, Præsten 111:17, d. 29. april 2021, s. 398-401.

Martin Ravn: ”Generøs bog om døden bringer læsernes egne erfaring i spil”, Kirke.dk d. 15.4.2021

Henrik Bach: ”Imponerende bog om den kedeligste af alle verdens religioner”, Information d. 25.6.2021.

Søren Pedersen: ”Ind i fællesskabet”, Religion: Religionslærerforeningen for gymnasiet og HF, 2021: 3, 34-36.

Jonas Jochumsen, ”Ind i fællesskabet”, Arken # 169 (2021), 74-75.

767. Henrik Gregersen & Hans Raun Iversen eds., Theodor Jørgensen: Dannelse til evigheden. Udfordringer til dansk teologi. København: Eksistensen 2021, 352 pp.

766. Body Politics: Theology in the Pandemic, Dialog: A Journal of Theology 68:4 (2021), 348-350.

765. Resonant Selves in Ethical and Theological Perspective: On Personhood and Identity Formation. Dialog: A Journal of Theology 68:4 (2021), 396-408.

764. ”Can Science Dispense with Religion?”. In Can Science Dispense with Religion? Ed. Mehdi Golshani. Qum: Al-Mustafa International Publication and Translation Center, 3^rd ed., 151-158.

763. Niels Henrik Gregersen & Hans Raun Iversen: ”Indledning: Tro og menneskelighed i Theodor Jørgensens teologi”. I: Theodor Jørgensen: Dannelse til evigheden. Udfordringer til dansk teologi. København: Eksistensen 2021, 7-27.

762. “Resonans og transcendens: Når der bliver mere ud af mindre”. Kritisk forum for praktisk teologi no. 163 (2021), 1-21. Open access: https://www.kfpt.dk/

761. ”Forlaget Vandkunstens nye teologiske Folkebibliotek”, TEOL-Information 64: september 2021, 27-30.

760. ”Ind i fællesskabet: Kan man tro på opstandelsen?” Trinitatis Kirkeblad 2021:1, 10-13.

759. ”Ansigtets inder- og yderside. Hvem er vi – bag masken og foran masken?”, Domkirken 85:4: Kirkemagasin, 6-7.

758.”Farvel til en moderne gammeltroende. Mindeord om Ole Jensen”. Kirke.dk. 16.12.2021

 

                                               2020:

759. “Deep Incarnation and Chalcedon: On the Enduring Legacy of the Cappadocian Concept of mixis”. In Herausforderungen des klassischen Theismus. Band 2: Inkarnation (STEP 16:2). Eds. Thomas Marschler and Thomas Schärtl. Aschendorff: Münster 2020, 253-287.

758. “Is the Universe a Sacrament? Denis Edwards’ Contribution to Sacramental Thinking”. In: God in the Natural World: Theological Explorations in Appreciation of Denis Edwards. Eds. Ted Peters & Marie Turner. Adelaide, AUS: ATF Press, 25-42.

757. Lisbet Christoffersen & Niels Henrik Gregersen: “N.F.S. Grundtvig and A.S. Ørsted: Shapers of the Danish People’s Church.” In Making Scandinavian Law Christian: Law and Christianity in the Writing of Scandinavian Jurists (Law and Religion Book Series). Eds. Kjell Å Modéer and Helle Vogt. London: Routledge, 206-241.

756. ”Resilient Selves: A Theology of Resonance and Secularity”, Dialog: A Journal of Theology59:2, 93-102.

755.  ”The Corona Crisis Unmasks Prevailing Social Ideologies”.Dialog: A Journal of Theology 59:2, 83-85. Also at Wiley PublicEmergency Collection, htttps://nih.gov.us“

754. En dåbsteologi for uperfekte mennesker med en ufærdig tro: En dybdeteologisk tolkning”. Kritisk Forum for Praktisk Teologi 160 (Juni 2020: Dåb), 61-76.

753. ”Dåpen – en nådens kilde. Anmeldelse af Harald Hegstad”. Tidsskrift for praktisk teologi 37:2, 108-112.

752. ”Perfektionskulturen giver ny aktualitet til det religiøse.” Oprindelig titel: ”Perfektionskultur og udmattelse”, kronik i Kristelig Dagblad 22. januar 2020.

751. Coronakrisen viser ideologiernes afmagt. Essay”. Kristeligt Dagblad, 28. marts 2020.

       

                                   2019 

750. Den praktiske teologi i Danmark 1973-2018. Festskrift til Hans Raun Iversen. Red. Lisbet Christoffersen, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Karen Marie Sø Leth-Nissen. København: Eksistensen 2018, 370 pp. Heri ”Forord”, pp. 7-8.

749. “Risk and Resonance: Expanding the Science-Religion Dialogue.” Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences 6:2 (2019), 1-5.

748. “Resonance, Risk, and Religion: Gerd Theissen and Hartmut Rosa on Religious Resonance.” Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences 6:2 (2019), 6-32.

747. "From oeconomia to Nordic Welfare Societies: The Idea of a Third-Zone Lutheranism”. Theology Today 76:3 (2019), 224-232.

746. "Religious Implications of Multilevel Systems Biology”. In Rethinking Biology: Public Understandings. Eds. Michael J. Reiss, Fraser Watts, and Harris Wiseman. Singapore: World Scientific Publications, pp. 233-264.

745. ”Towards a more Generous Creation Theology: On Mutuality and the Circulation of Gifts. In: American Perspectives meet Scandinavian Creation Theology, Elisabeth Gerle and Michael Schelde. Aarhus: The Grundtvig Study Center/Church of Sweden Research Department 2019, 64-75.

744. “Preface”. I Denis Edwards, Deep Incarnation: God's Redemptive Suffering with Creatures. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, xi-xiii

743. ”Hans Raun Iversens program for den praktiske teologi”. I: Den praktiske teologi i Danmark 1973-2018. Festskrift til Hans Raun Iversen. Red. Lisbet Christoffersen, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Karen Marie Sø Leth-Nissen. København: Eksistensen 2019, 29-48.

742. ”Det resonante selv: Naturen som resonanssfære”. I Mangefoldet tro og sjælesorg. Multiple mennesker i multiple møder. Red. Christine Tind-Johannesen-Henry & Hans Raun Iversen. København: Eksistensen Akademisk, 241-270.

741. ”Blasfemi: Fra Jesus-traditionen til nyeuropæisk kristendom”. I Religionsretlig lovgivning Kirkeretsantologi 2019: Trossamfundslov og Blasfemibestemmelse. Christoffersen, Lisbet, Anders Jørgensen & Svend Andersen. København: Eksistensen Akademisk, s. 245-264.

740. ”Fra Universitet til Diversitet: Om samtidsteologiens forhold til tro og kirke”, Trosforum 2004-2019. Anne Ravn o.a. København: Det teologiske Fakultet, 38-46.

739. ”Plug-in dåb”. I Kirkemagasin Vor Frue Kirke København 15:2 (marts-maj). ”Tema: Dåb”, 6-7.

 

                                             2018

 

738. Carsten Bach-Nielsen, Niels Henrik Gregersen og Niels Kærgaard, Hvorfor holder vi reformationsjubilæum? Om reformationen og erindringen. (Reformationsserien nr. 11) (Eksistensen: København), 78 s., 2018.

737. ”Church and Culture in Living Interaction”. In Human Comes first: The Christian Theology of N.F.S. Grundtvig, ed. Edward Broadbridge. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2018. 22-55.

736. “Wisdom Theology as an Axial Phenomenon.” In Evolution of Wisdom: Major and Minor Keys, eds. Agustín Fuentes and Celia Deane-Drummond. Notre Dame, IN: Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing 2018, 170-182.

735. “From Spiritual Information to Communication and Transformation”. In Sir John’s Vision: What Do We Know? What Is There to Learn? In Paul C.W Davies, George F.R. Ellis, and Keith Ward. West Conscohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 164-173.

734. “Luther’s Theology of Creation: Nordic Perspectives”. Lutherjahrbuch 2018, vol 86, 353-355.

733. ”Den perforerede to-regimentelære: Den tredje zones lutherdom”, Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen, januar 2018 nr. 2, 11-14.

732. ”Mr. Praktisk teologi sender stafetten videre”. TEOL-information, No 58, 2018, 6-9.

731. ”Opstandelsen handler om fællesskabet”, kronik i Kristeligt Dagblad 3. april 2018.

 

                                                 2017:

730. Hvorfor er vi protestanter? Om reformationen og teologien (Reformationsserien nr. 10) (Eksistensen: København), 80 s., 2017.

729. Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 1: 1517-1700. Bind 2: 1700-1914. Bind 3: 1914-2017, eds. Niels Henrik Gregersen and Carsten Bach-Nielsen (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017), 443 + 464 + 611 pp. = 1518 pp.

728. Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age: Løgstrup, Prenter, Wingren and the Future of Scandinavian Creation Theology, eds. Niels Henrik Gregersen, Bengt Kristensson Uggla, and Trygve Wyller (Research in Contemporary Religion vol 24) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2017), 274 pp. ”Preface”, s. 7-9.

729. ”Reconfiguring Reformation Theology: The Program of Scandinavian Creation Theology”, with Bengt Kristensson Uggla and Trygve Wyller. In Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age, 11-34.

728. “K.E. Løgstrup and Scandinavian Creation Theology”. In Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age, 37-66.

727. “Martin Luther in Denmark”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Online March 2017, 21 pp. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.319

726. “Luther in Denmark”, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, Derek R. Nelson & Paul Hinlicky eds. (New York: Oxford University Press 2017), vol. 2., pp. 256-270

725. “Religion and Axiality: Theological Reflections on Robert N. Bellah’s Axial Age Hypothesis”, Scottish Journal of Theology 2017:1, pp. 61-73. doi: 10.1017/S0036930616000478. February 3, 2017.

724. “The Exploration of Ecospace: Extending or Supplementing the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm?”, Zygon: A Journal of Theology 52:2 (June 2017), 561-586.

723. “Positive Loss and Tragic Memory: On the Preservation of Community”, Dialog: A Journal of Theology 56:4 (Winter 2017), 11-21.

722. “Endangered Selves and Societies: Towards a Theology of Disaster” (editorial with Jan-Olav Henriksen), Dialog: A Journal of Theology 56:4 (Winter 2017), 331-335.

721. “Introduction: J. Wentzel van Huyssteen and Interdisciplinary Theology”, In Human Origins and the Image of God: Essays in Honor of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans 2017, 1-21.

720. ”Reformationen som kirkeligt og kulturelt program” (Niels Henrik Gregersen & Carsten Bach-Nielsen). I Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 1: 1517-1700 (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017), 11-31.

719. ”Fra enevælde til demokrati: Lutherdommens transformationer” (Carsten Bach Nielsen & Niels Henrik Gregersen). I Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 2: 1700-1914 (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017), pp. 9-31.

718. ”Luther genopført, modsagt og genbrugt: Det 20. århundredes epoker”. I Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 3: 1914-2017 (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017), pp. 11-47

717. ”Luther i dansk kirke og kultur 1914-2017” I Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 3:1914-2017 (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017), pp. 75-121.

716. ”Dansk teologi 1914-2017”. I Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 3: 1914-2017 (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017), pp. 253-300.

715. ”Ti bud på den fortsatte reformation: Indledning”. I Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 3: 1914-2017 (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017), pp. 461-466.

714. ”Den fortsatte reformation: Hvad med spiritualiteten? I Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur. Bind 3: 1914-2017 (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017), pp. 553-561.

713. ”Videnskab - tese 63-65”. I 95 nye teser, eds. Anne Marie Pahuus & Henrik Grøndal Lund (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press 2017), pp. 161-67.

712. ”Ånd (Treenigheden)”, Præsteforeningens Blad 2017:45, pp.1150-1153.

711. “Reformationen i dansk kirke og kultur I-III: Præsentation af et forskningsprojekt”. Teol-Information 55, Februar 2017, pp. 10-13.

710. Kristian Mejrup, Niels Henrik Gregersen & Lisbet Christoffersen, ”Pronola: Nyt nordisk forskningsprojekt om ret og religion”. Teol-Information 55, Februar 2017, pp. 30-33.

709. ”Videnskaben og virkelighedens båndbredde… og noget om balloner”, Kvant 28:4, pp. 31-32.

708. Ciara Reyes & Niels Henrik Gregersen. “Deep Incarnation & the Cosmos: A Conversation with Niels Henrik Gregersen” (with ), American Scientific Association Publications, Summer 2017, 1-4.

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I.     Brief curriculum vitae of Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen

Gregersen (b. 1956) received his PhD in theology from the University of Copenhagen (1987). Between 1986 and 2004 he held various faculty positions at Aarhus University, from 2000 to 2004 as Research Professor in Theology and Science. Since 2004 Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen.

From 1992 to 2003, he was a leader of the Danish Science-Theology Forum; 1998-2002 Vice-President of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) and responsible for its publication program. In 2002-3 he was elected President of The Learned Society, Denmark. He is a founding member and Trustee of International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) 2002-2007. Founder and Chairperson of the Løgstrup Archives at Aarhus University 1993-2000, and chairperson of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, 2003-2010. From 2008 to 2013 he was co-Director of the Centre for Naturalism & Christian Semantics at the Faculty of Theology, funded by Copenhagen University’s “Star Research Program”. 2013-17 he is co-PI of the interdisciplinary research program, Centre for Changing Disaster at Copenhagen University. 

Some of his most recent publications include Den generøse ortodoksi: Konflikt og kontinuitet i kristendommen (Anis, 2015); Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology (Fortress Press, 2014); Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2010, reissued as Canto Classics 2014); Theology in an Evolutionary World (in Romanian 2007); The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology(Fortress Press, 2005); and From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning (Oxford University Press, 2003).

He was associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Science and Religion I-II (MacMillan Reference 2003), editor-in-chief of Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 2007-2014, and inaugural co-editor of Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (Mohr-Siebeck 2014ff).  

Fellow of Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton (1996-97), and J.K. Russell Fellow at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in 2004 and 2013.  

Gregersen's work focuses on two research fields:

(1) How to develop a constructive Christian theology in the context of secularized and multi-religious Western societies? Within systematic theology, he specializes in the theology of creation and Christology, but has written on most topics of Christian theology.

(2) How to bring about a mutual interaction between science and religion that also allows religious reflection to be an active player? Within the field of science & religion, he specializes in the philosophy of evolutionary biology and the sciences of complexity.

II.   Full Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen

Overview

Niels Henrik Gregersen (born June 16, 1956) holds his PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1987. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen. At Aarhus University he was Assistant Professor in Ethics and Philosophy of Religion 1986-1989, Associate Professor in Systematic Theology 1989-2000, and Research Professor in Theology & Science 2000-2004.

His primary research fields are contemporary theology, and science and religion. His list of publications contains more than 500 entries, including 5 books, 2 co-authored books and more than twenty edited volumes.

In English, he has edited or co-edited The Concept of Nature in Science and Theology I-II (Geneva: Labor & Fides, 1997-98); Rethinking Theology and Science. Six Models for the Current Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998); Scientific and Theological Worldviews I-II (Labor & Fides, 1999); The Human Person in Science and Theology (Edinburgh: T & T Clark/Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000); Design and Disorder. Perspectives from Science & Theology (T & T Clark, 2002); From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003); Encyclopedia of Science and Religion I-II (New York: Macmillan/Gale, 2004); The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005); Wolhart Pannenberg, The Historicity of Nature: Essays in Science and Theology (Templeton Foundation Press, 2008);  Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2010; Canto Classics, 2014), and Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology (Fortress Press, 2015).   

He has published some 150 articles in Nordic, German and English books and journals including Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Ecotheology, Glauben und Denken, Ideas in Context, Kerygma und Dogma, Kritik, Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift, Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, Politik, Studia Theologica, Studies in Science and Theology, Scottish Journal of Theology; Svensk Teologisk Kvartalstidsskrift, Theology and Science; Theology Today; Toronto Journal of Theology; and Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science.

Contributor to The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought; The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity; The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology; Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (4th ed., 8 vols.), also translated into English as Religion in Past and Present; Encyclopedia of Science and Religion; Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature; Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement; Dictionary of Historical Theology, and Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (20 vols).

1992-2003 he was a leader of the Danish Science-Theology Forum; 1996-2002 Vice-President of The European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT); 2002ff founding Executive Committee member and Trustee for the International Society of Science and Theology (ISSR). In 1999 he was elected as member of The Learned Society, Aarhus University, Denmark, and he served as its President in 2002 and 2003. 2003-2010 he represented the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark in The Lutheran World Federation and was chairperson of the board for the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg. He was founder and chairperson of the Løgstrup Archives at Aarhus University 1993-2000, and chairperson of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, 2003-2010. From 2008 to 2013 he was co-Director of the Centre for Naturalism & Christian Semantics at the Faculty of Theology, funded by Copenhagen University’s “Star Research Program”. 2013-17 he is co-PI of the interdisciplinary research program, Centre for Changing Disaster at Copenhagen University.

General editor of Studies in Science and Theology and of Issues in Science and Theology 1996-2005; systematic-theological editor of Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift since 1993, and the editor-in-chief 2007-2014. He is inaugural editor of Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (Mohr-Siebeck), 2014ff. He also serves on the editorial boards of Dialog: A Journal of Theology; Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science; and Theology and Science. 

Fellow of Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton since 1996, and the J.K. John Russell Fellow at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, October 2004 and 2013. He has received several international research awards, among them a research award of 100.000 $ from the John Templeton Foundation for his work on the constructive interface between science & religion.

He lectures widely in Europe and the USA, and has been invited main speaker to major conferences in South Africa, Asia (China, Japan and South Korea), and in Australia. He writes in Danish, English and German, and has been translated into Swedish, French, Dutch, Russian, Romanian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.

 

Details of Curriculum Vitae

Education

1975 High school from Haderslev Cathedral School

1983 MA in theology, University of Copenhagen

1983: Pastoral Training and Examination, Copenhagen Pastoral College 

1987 PhD, University of Copenhagen (published with Aarhus University Press 1988, 2^nd ed. 2001).

 

Employments

1978-1981: Student advisor, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University (50 %)

1984-1986: PhD student, University of Copenhagen, on the project "Theology and Culture"

1986-1989: Assistant Professor in Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Aarhus

1989-2000: Associate Professor in dogmatics and ecumenical theology at the Department of Systematic Theology, University of Aarhus

2000: Research Professor in Theology & Science at Aarhus University

2004:  Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen.

  

 

Main Publications in chronological order

* Teologi og kultur. Protestantismen mellem isolation og assimilation i det 19. og 20. århundrede (Acta Jutlandica, LXV: 1, vol 17) (Aarhus: Aarhus UP, 1988, 2001²), 310 pp.

* Gud og universet. W. Pannenbergs religionsfilosofi (Copenhagen: GAD, 1989), 164 pp.

* Niels Henrik Gregersen (ed.):  Fragmenter af et spejl. Bidrag til dogmatikken (Copenhagen: ANIS, 1992), 2^nd ed. 1993, 3^rd ed. 1997, 4^rd ed. 2003. Reprint 2014, 334 pp.

* N.H. Gregersen/A. Wiin Nielsen (eds.): Kaos og kausalitet. Om kaosteorien og dens betydning for filosofi og teologi (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1992).

* Niels Henrik Gregersen (ed.): Naturvidenskab og livssyn  (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1993), 2^nd ed. 1994, 461 pp.

* Niels Henrik Gregersen/Eva Meile/Kirsten Nielsen: Tid og evighed. I begyndelsen skabte Gud... (Copenhagen: ANIS, 1995), 126 pp.

* Niels Henrik Gregersen/Eva Meile/Kirsten Nielsen: Rejsen og grænsen. Som mand og kvinde skabte han dem... (Copenhagen: ANIS, 1995), 2^nd ed. 1998, 110 pp.

* Den dobbelte kristendom (Herning: Poul Christensen 1996), 104 pp.

* Niels Henrik Gregersen/Wentzel van Huyssteen (eds.): Rethinking Theology and Science: Six Models for the Current Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998).

* Niels Henrik Gregersen/Willem B. Drees/ Ulf Görman (eds.): The Human Person in Science and Theology (Edinburgh: T & T Clark/Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000).

* Niels Henrik Gregersen/Ulf Görman (eds.): Design and Disorder: Perspectives from Science & Theology (Edinburgh: T & T Clark 2002).

* Niels Henrik Gregersen (ed.): From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

* Co-editor (Editor-in-chief Wentzel van Huyssteen) of Encyclopedia in Science & Theology vols. I-II (New York: MacMillan Reference/Gale, 2003). 

* Niels Henrik Gregersen, Ted Peters, Bo Holm, and Peter Widman (eds.): The Gift of Grace: The Future of Lutheran Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2005).                                           

* The Presence of God in an Evolutionary World, translated into Romanian as Dumneuzeu intr-o lume evolunista (Bucharest: Curtea Veche 2007), 160 pp.

* Wolfhart Pannenberg: The Historicity of Nature. Essays on Science & Theology, ed. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press 2008).  

* Paul Davies & Niels Henrik Gregersen (eds.): Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Reissued as Canto Classics (2014), 487 pp.

* Niels Henrik Gregersen (ed.): Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015), 387 pp.

* Niels Henrik Gregersen: Den generøse ortodoksi: Konflikt og kontinuitet i kristendommen (Copenhagen: Anis, 2015), 523 pp.                                 

See under "Publications" for a full list of publications. 

 

Experience as Organizer

1988: The Centenary of John Henry Newmann: An International Symposium, Aarhus University 1988 (chairperson)

1990-2003: 10-23rd Symposia for Forum for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Aarhus University (co-organizer with Kees van Kooten Niekerk)                                                                                            

1994: 5th European Conference on Science and Theology, Freising/Munich (member of the organizing committee with Karl Schmitz-Moormann, Christof Wassermann a.o)

1995: 11th Nordic Conference in Systematic Theology, Aarhus University 1995 (chairperson)

1996: 6th European Conference on Science and Theology, Krakow (member of the organizing committee with Karl Schmitz-Moormann, Christof Wassermann a.o)

1996: IXth International Congress on "Ecological Culture in Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Interpretations", Sct. Peterburg, Russia, 17-19 October (Main organizers Alexander Soldatov and Alexei Nesteruk)

1998: 12th Nordic Conference in Systematic Theology, Uppsala (main organizer Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm)

2000: 8th European Conference in Science and Theology, Lyon April (member of the Organizing Committee)

2002: Founding Meeting of the International Society of Science and Religion (ISSR), Granada, Spain (member of the Organizing Committee)

2003: Contexts and Charisms of Lutheran Theology: A Global Convocation on the Future of Lutheran Theology, Aarhus University January 16-20 (Co-chair with Ted Peters and Peter Widman, co-sponsored by the Danish Government; the Research Foundation of Aarhus University, CTNS, Berkeley, and the Lutheran World Federation)

2004: 2^nd ISSR Conference on Creation, Law and Probability, Boston (member of the Organizing Committee)

2006: God, Matter and Information: What Is Ultimate? John Templeton Foundation and Copenhagen University (main organizer with Mary-Ann Meyers and Paul Davies)

2006: Myths, Metaphors, and Meta-Narratives, 2^nd. International Conference at the Copenhagen Research School on Religion and Society (co-organizer with Erik Sand a.o.)  

2007: 15^th Nordic Conference in Systematic Theology, Copenhagen University (main organizer with Kirsten Busch-Nielsen and Jonas Adelin Jørgensen)

2007: Significance and Transformations: Copenhagen Conference on Religion in the 21^st  Century, Copenhagen University (main organizer Hans Raun Iversen)

2011: Varieties of Naturalism and the Problem of Transcendence, Center for Naturalism and Christian Semantics, Copenhagen University (main organizer with Mikael Stenmark)

2011: Is God Incarnate in All that Is?, Templeton Humility Theology Symposium, Hotel Marienlyst, Elsinor, Denmark (main organizer together with Mary-Ann Meyers)

2013: Deep Incarnation and other Models of Incarnation, Center for Naturalism and Christian Semantics, Copenhagen University (main organizer) 

 

Services for Research Institutions, Journals and Societies

1992-2003: Steering group member of the Danish Science-Theology Forum, Aarhus University

1990-1995: Editorial Board of the publishing house, ANIS, Copenhagen

1992-1996: Scientific Program Officer of the European Society for the Study of Science & Theology (ESSSAT)

1993-2000: Founder and chairperson of the Løgstrup Archives, Aarhus University (launched 1995) 

1993-2014: Systematic-theological editor of Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift (editor-in-chief 2007-2014) 

1995-2001: Steering Board Member of the Department of Systematic Theology, Aarhus University

1994-2002: Co-editor of Studies in Science and Theology, Geneva (general editor 1998-2002)

1996-:  Editorial Advisory Board of Zygon. Journal of Religion and Science

1996-: Editorial Council of Dialog: A Journal of Theology

1996-2002: Vice-President of European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT).

1998-2002: General editor of Studies in Science and Theology (Labor & Fides, Geneva)

1998-2005: Founding Editor of Issues in Science and Theology (T & T Clark) 

2000-2002 & 2004-2006 & 2008-2012: Member of the International Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation

1999-2003:  member of the presidium of Det Lærde Selskab [The Learned Society], Aarhus University

2000-2005: Board member of Diakonhøjskolen [Diaconal School], Skåde

2001ff: Editorial Board Member of Science and Theology (launched 2002)

2002-2003: President of Det Lærde Selskab [The Learned Society], Aarhus University    

2002-2007: Founding Executive Committee member and Trustee for the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR)

2003-2010: Chairperson of the board for the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, France

2006-: Member of the Academic Council, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen

2006-2008: Member of PhD Board of Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen

2006-2009: Board Member of Research School on Religion and Society, University of Copenhagen

2006-08: Advisory Board of the Korean Center for Life and Science, Seoul

2007-2011: Advisory Board of the Finnish Graduate School of Theology   

2007-2014: Editor-in-chief of Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift (Danish Journal of Theology)

2008-09: Steering Committee Member of the Group on "Science and Technology" at American Academy of Religion (AAR)  

2009- Member of Global Network of Theology at Heidelberg University (main organizer: Michael Welker)

2012-: Member of the senate of Copenhagen University

2013-2015: Area editor for “Science and Religion” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias (ORE) on Religion

2014-: Co-editor (with Celia Deane-Drummond, Dirk Evers, and Gregory Peterson) of the Journal Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (Mohr-Siebeck)

2015: Advisory Board member of Theology, Science and Human Flourishing at Notre Dame University (PI: Celia deane-Drummond)

 

Services for the Church

1992-1997: Ordained and unsalaried pastor in Johanneskirken (St. John’s Chruch), Aarhus

1995-2002: Member of Theological Commission, Church of Denmark Council of Interchurch Relations  

2003-2010: Council member in The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), representing the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark

2013-: Unsalaried pastor in Trinitatis Kirke (the Round Tower Church), Copenhagen

 

Research Grants 

The Danish Research Foundation for the Humanities (ca. 300.000 Dkr)

The Research Foundation of AarhusUniversity, Aarhus (ca. 500.000 DKr)

Felix Foundation, Copenhagen (minor grant)

Niels Møgelvang Foundation, Copenhagen (2 minor grants)

Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, USA (ca. 50.000 USD)

John Templeton Foundation, Philadelphia, USA (ca. 110.000 USD)

Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, USA (minor grant)

Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia, USA (ca. 15.000 USD)

Copenhagen University's "Star Research Program" 2008-2013 (50 % of 14,2 Mill Dkr.)

Copenhagen University's "Excellence Program for Interdisciplinary Studies", 2013-2017 (20 % of 18, 1 mill. Dkr.)  

Velux Foundation (minor grant)

Hal Koch & Nørregaard Fonden (minor grant)  

 

Awards include

May 1995, prize of $ 2.000 in Humility Theology from the Templeton Foundation for "Three types of Indeterminacy - An Argument for a Differentiated Notion of Divine Action", Studies in Science and Theology 3, 1995.

November 1996, award of $ 2.000 in the Exemplary Papers Program from Templeton Foundation for "Theology in a Neo-Darwinian World", Studia Theologica 48, 1994.

May 1996, award of $ 5.000 (+ $ 5.000 to Aarhus University) from CTNS Course Program: "Temporality and Divine Action".   

1996-1997, research grant for 10 months' research scholarship at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton.

September 1999, award of $ 100.000 from Templeton Foundation for work on the constructive interface between science and religion.

November 1999, ‘outstanding paper' award of $ 3.000 from the Templeton Foundation for the article, "The Idea of Creation and the Theory of Autopoietic Processes", Zygon 33:1.

 

Lecturer Experiences

Invited lecturer to:

All Danish universities: Copenhagen (including the Niels Bohr Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Danish Institute of Technology, Copenhagen Business School), Aarhus University, Southern Danish University, Aalborg University, and Roskilde University.  

In Nordic countries: Faculties of theology in Oslo, Lund, Uppsala, Helsinki, Åbo, and Reykjavik.

In Europe: Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Munich, Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Loccum, Arnoldsheim, Paris, Lyon, Rome, Madrid, Tallinn, Tartu, Krakow, St. Petersburg, Moscow.

In the US and Canada: Berkeley, Chicago, St. Paul, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Princeton, Grand Rapids, Boston and Montreal.

In Africa: University of South Africa (UNISA), University of Cape Town, University of Durban, University of Pretoria, University of Stellenbosch.

In Asia: Ryokoku University, Kyoto, Japan; Seoul Presbyterian Seminary, Korea & Korean Center for Science and Life, Seoul; Beijing Normal University & Tsinghua University, Beijing; Fudan University & Tongi University,  Shanghai; Nanjing University and Nanjing Theological Seminary.

In Australia: Canberra University.

 

 

Primære forskningsområder

Jeg har to primære forskningsområder: Samtidsteologi (dogmatik) samt Religion & Naturvidenskab 

(1) Samtidsteologi (dogmatik). Det grundlæggende spørgsmål er her, hvad kristendommen er og kan betyde i en nutidig kontekst. Som baggrund herfor er forholdet mellem Luther og Grundtvig en central akse, men af nyere inspirationer må nævnes K.E. Løgstrup og Wolfhart Pannenberg. Jeg har herunder forsøgt at skrive om de fleste klassiske temaer i kristendommen: gudsbilledet, skabelse og forsyn, mennesket på godt og ondt, inkarnation og kristologi, kirkesyn og sakramentslære, samt synet på liv, død og evigt liv i den kristne tradition. Hvordan kan man tænke og tale om alt dette i dag? 

(2) Religion & Naturvidenskab: Det grundlæggende spørgsmål er her, hvordan de moderne naturvidenskaber kritisk og konstruktivt kan bidrage til en formulering af religion, særligt kristendommen, i vores tid. Jeg har her foretaget en vis specialisering inden for darwinismen (i dens forskellige skikkelser) og de moderne kompleksitetsvidenskaber. Hvordan sætter naturvidenskaberne grænser for moderne teologi? Og hvordan kan teologien selv bidrage til forståelsen af den natur, vi har omkring os, og som vi selv er?  - Om disse emner har jeg mest skrevet på engelsk, da det er her, de store debatter foregår.