Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen

CV

• 2024-2026: Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Dogmatics
• 2021-2024: Assistant Professor of Practical Theology
• 2019-2021: Postdoc in Dogmatics with the project Ambiguities of Shame (AMOS)
• 2017: PhD in Systematic Theology on the dissertation Living with Risk and Danger: Studies in Interdisicplinary Systematic Theology. The dissertation has been accepted for publication at the German publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 
• 2013: Graduation from the Pastoral Seminary of the Danish Folk Church.
  MA in Theology (Cand. theol.), Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
  Gold Medal for Academic Excellence Ingenio et Studio, Master’s Thesis, 2013
• 2011-2012: Two semesters Master studies at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA.
• 2010: Two semesters Bachelor studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.  

Current research

Pastoral care and shame. Based on a distinction between shame, shamefulness and shamelessness, I investigate how pastors can take care of the shame that occurs - or fails to occur - in an existential conversation. I am engaged in an interdisciplinary research project on online pastoral care. 

Primary fields of research

• Interdisciplinary theology with regards to risk and danger. This project has investigated theological models for understanding and living with risk and danger in a Christian context. The results are being fine-tuned towards publication with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• Theology of forgiveness and reconciliation. This project develops a cricial model for the relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation. I draw special attention to the emotions that belong to a process of reconciliation.
• Contemporary ecclesial practices