Johanna Bokedal, Lea Matthaei, Ole Vinther, and Nina Gacic have recently joined the Faculty of Theology as new PhD fellows. Coming from varied academic backgrounds, they will each bring their own unique perspectives and research interests to our faculty.
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The present volume focuses on the Coptic parabiblical texts – those texts that do not belong to the Bible but fall in its orbit – which include not only the Apocrypha but also the works of the Apostolic Fathers.
Nobel Prize winner Emmanuelle Charpentier as well as Dr. Sjur Bergan and Professor Trond Petersen are among UiO's honorary doctors 2024. They will be formally appointed at UiO's Annual Celebration on 2 September, where topics related to academic freedom and democracy will receive special attention.
Befriending the North Wind – Children, Moral Agency, and the Good Death is about the moral lives of children and their agency in decisions about death.
The University Board has decided to appoint Laura Nasrallah to honorary doctor at the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2024. Nasrallah is Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School, and she was suggested as new honorary doctor by the Faculty of Theology, UiO.
Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has been fiercely debated.
The volume offers a new critical reflection on the use of the Bible in contemporary cultural and political debates in the Nordic countries.
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion.
Professor Emeritus Werner G. Jeanrond will receive an honorary doctorate from Regis College at the University of Toronto in November. "This came as a great surprise," Jeanrond says.
This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups.
For the next academic year, Ivan Miroshnikov will be joining the Faculty as a visiting researcher on the APOCRYPHA-project. “Professor Hugo Lundhaug has gathered a wonderful team of young Coptologists, and I am very excited to work in such a pleasant and stimulating environment,” Miroshnikov says.
Earlier this month we welcomed Aleksandr Andreev to the Faculty of Theology. In his PhD project, Andreev will study the manuscripts of the Horologion – a book used for daily worship in the Orthodox Church.
The authors presented in this volume deal with important cases of Protestantization of religion or of debates on religion.
This volume presents a detailed introduction to the post-Reformation church topography of Norway. Around 140 epitaphs are preserved in all parts of Norway from the period 1550 to 1700, and are in this volume documented with illustrations, descriptions and short biographies.
For the first time, two UiO projects within the humanities have received financing via the ERC Proof of Concept Grant. The project “Tool for the Analysis of Information Transfer in Manuscript Cultures” will develop a new digital tool.
Did the Reformation introduce a new approach to philosophy? How did this historical caesura influence key thinkers in the history of modern philosophy up to the twenty-first century?
The contributions in the present volume explore in various ways potentialities and problems linked to imagination's role in the context of religion.
Earlier this month we welcomed Eduard Sablon Leiva to the Faculty of Theology. Leiva is here for a three-month research period, supported by the University of Oslo’s Scholars at Risk Committee due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
A unique introduction to the developing field of Theology and Qualitative Research. The book includes a chapter from Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen.
Associate professor Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen is part of a new one year research project: “Explaining Nordic atheism: How cultural learning mechanisms predict atheism in Nordic cultural contexts”.
This open access book, edited by Anne Hege Grung, contributes to an emerging field that could be referred to as "plural spiritual care and chaplaincy".
Argyro Delidaki, Marita Furehaug and Gustaf Henriksson started as new PhD fellows at the Faculty of Theology this September. With diverse backgrounds they will contribute with different perspectives and research interests to the faculty.
Professor Catherine Cornille received her honorary doctorate degree from the Faculty of Theology on September 2. Cornille is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of comparative theology and interreligious dialogue.
‘I hope to be able to contribute with my specialty in moral theology (ethics) to the larger needs of the faculty and the university through teaching and research,’ Robyn Boeré says, who started in her new position at the Faculty of Theology in August.
It started with a passion for language learning and an interest in the Qur’an and formative Islam. Now Lasse Løvlund Toft will dive deeper into Coptic apocryphal traditions as part of the Apocrypha-project.