Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen

Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen

PhD in Theology

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16

    2300 København S

Personal profile

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. 
  • Practiced Reconciliation in Pastoral Care. 
  • The importance of religious dialogue for FBO emergency aid work. 
  • Catechesis and spiritual rearmament. 

Keywords

  • Faculty of Theology
  • Risk
  • Danger
  • Theories of Atonement
  • Theological Anthropology
  • Interdisciplinary Theology