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Three PhD positions are now available at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo. Application deadline: 15th January 2023. The position MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society announces three PhD fellowships. The starting date for the PhD fellowships will be September 1st 2023. A PhD position should to lead to a completed… Continue reading Funded PhD-positions at MF, Oslo

Article by Simone Kotva in  Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology. This article considers J. G. Ballard’s account of deep time in The Drowned World (1962) from a religious perspective. I situate Ballard’s account of deep time in the context of Mircea Eliade’s influential work on the “Real Time” of ecstasy—a time in which humans recognize their… Continue reading Cosmopolitical Spiritualities of Deep Time: Reading J.G. Ballard’s Mystical Impulse

Book by Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch on Wipf & Stock / Cascade Books How do we speak about God if God is ineffable? This paradoxical question lies at the heart of one of the strangest traditions of philosophical and theological thought: negative theology. As a tradition of thought, negative (or apophatic) theology can be traced back… Continue reading Negative Theology: A Short Introduction

Knut Alfsvåg in Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie. Plato and Aristotle understood phenomena to be knowable to the extent that they participate in the reality of the unchangeable, and this attitude was appropriated by the church fathers as a way of exploring the world’s dependence on its Creator. Luther’s insistence on the world’s… Continue reading The significance of participation in transcendence in Luther and Przywara

Article by Mårten Björk in Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift This article seeks to define what academic theology can be at a secular university by entering into dialogue with, among others, the Swedish church historian Joel Halldorf and using the difference between juridical and critical authority established by Pius XII in the encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu. In the… Continue reading Akademisk teologi som universell kunskapsform

Article by Tobias Hägerland in Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. Should supersessionism be superseded? Noting that supersessionism is routinely dismissed as a detestable error in Swedish public discourse as well as in academic theology, this article aims at providing some deeper reflection on what is denoted by the term supersessionism and what sort of supersessionism is incompatible… Continue reading Bör ersättningsteologin ersättas?

Article by Peter Halldorf in Svensk Teologisk Kvartalsskrift. “Den andra världen är den här världen”: Philip Sherrards theoantropokosmiska vision i ljuset av ett planetärt akutläge “Philip Sherrard is truly a prophet for our present age, a messenger whose winged words are addressed not so much to the twentieth century in which he lived as to… Continue reading “Den andra världen är den här världen”

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalsskrift has published a special issue on Christianity and Nationalism (ed A. J. Goldman & T. Metreveli, Vol 98 Nr 2, 2022) Table of contents:

Online seminar series on populism and religion, spring 2023 (CTR, Lund University) Into the Arms of the Far Right: The New Temptation of French CatholicismAnne GuillardJanuary 25, 16h15–18h00, Swedish time [CET]Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/62152616728Meeting ID: 621 5261 6728 For decades, the historically dominant Catholic Church in France has strongly opposed the far right. More recently, however, there have… Continue reading Lund Seminar Series on Populism and Religion