Research output per year
Research output per year
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
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Climate Shame: What Is It, Does It Matter, and How Do We Handle It?
Christoffersen, M. G., 2025, In: Dialog. 64, 1, p. 15-20 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Diagonal rummelighed: Dåbssamtalen som sjælesorg, dåbsoplæring og religionsdialog
Christoffersen, M. G., 2025, En verden til forskel: Religionsmøder og religionsteologi i et mangfoldigt samfund. Brandt, A. K. & Sonne, S. L. C. (eds.). Frederiksberg: Eksistensen, p. 75-95Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Hvad synger menigheden? Abduktiv genreanalyse af 117 danske salmer
Christoffersen, M. G., 2025, In: Tidsskrift for Praktisk Teologi. 42, 1, p. 67–87 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Profetisk diakoni for kloden: King, klimaskam og kirkens nutidige stemme
Christoffersen, M. G., 2025, Klodens teologi: En antologi. Li, E. & Svinth-Værge Põder, C. (eds.). København: Eksistensen Akademisk, p. 91-114Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Caring for-Caring about: Negotiations of Values in Pastoral Care
Christoffersen, M. G., Haußmann, A. D. & Austad, A., 2024, In: Religions. 15, 5, 15 p., 619.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Editors’ Comment: Pastoral Care as Diaconia – Diaconia as Pastoral Care
Christoffersen, M. G., Austad, A. & Nygaard, M. R., 2024, In: Diaconia Journal for the Study of Christian Social Practice. 14, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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Environmental Shame and the Solidarity of Creation Theology
Christoffersen, M. G., 2024, Redeeming the Sense of the Universal: Scandinavian Creation Theology on Politics and Ecology. Wyller, T., Lundberg, J. G. & Gregersen, N. H. (eds.). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, p. 279-292 14 p. (Research in Contemporary Religion, Vol. 39).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Five Strategies for Handling Shame in Pastoral Care
Christoffersen, M. G., 2024, In: Evangelische Theologie. 84, 4, p. 307-320Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Power and Powerlessness: Relations - Practices - Structures
Christoffersen, M. G. (Participant)
20 Aug 2025 → 22 Aug 2025Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Hope and Hopelessness: When Systematic Theology Meets Lived Experiences of Pastoral Care
Christoffersen, M. G. (Other)
9 Sept 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Permanently Normative
Christoffersen, M. G. (Organizer)
28 Sept 2023 → 1 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Youth as Agents of Change?
Christoffersen, M. G. (Organizer)
12 Apr 2023 → 15 Apr 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Ideals, Anger, and Shame: Contemporary (Danish) Youth between Agency and Despair.
Christoffersen, M. G. (Keynote)
12 Apr 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Skammen i sjælesorgen: Fem strategier
Christoffersen, M. G. (Other)
27 Jan 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Online sjælesorg: Et forskningsprojekt om eksistentielle samtaler på nettet (External organisation)
Christoffersen, M. G. (Member), Lindell, J. F. (Member) & Hornum, P. (Member)
2023 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership in research network
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Permanently Normative
Christoffersen, M. G. (Organizer)
6 Oct 2022 → 7 Oct 2022Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Press/Media
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Teuchert, Lisanne, Chrstoffersen, Mikkel Gabriel u. Dennis Dietz [Hgg.]: Verletzt Fühlen. Systematisch-theologische Perspektiven auf den Zusammenhang von Verletzung und Emotion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2022. VIII, 250 S - Religion in Philosophy and Theology, 119. Kart. EUR 74,00. ISBN 97831616624
01/09/2023
1 item of Media coverage
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Det er vanskeligt at opnå forsoning i de sociale mediers tidsalder
23/09/2022
1 Media contribution
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Prizes
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Guldmedalje for prisopgavebesvarelse
Christoffersen, M. G. (Recipient), 15 Nov 2013
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
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Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise
Christoffersen, M. G. (Recipient), 17 May 2019
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions