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Faculty of Theology
Købmagergade 44-46, PO 2164, 150 Copenhagen K., Denmark
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Scholars Involved 

Prof. Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Professor of Biblical Studies (New Testament)

Prof. N. Henrik Gregersen, Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Pia Søltoft, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Troels Engberg-Pedersen

Professor of Biblical Studies (New Testament)

Faculty of Theology
Købmagergade 44-46, PO 2164
1150 Copenhagen K., Denmark

Phone: +45 35 32 36 44
Fax: +45 35 32 36 52
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Homepage: http://www.teol.ku.dk/english/staff/profile/?id=127149

Research Profile

Ancient philosophy and early Christianity (New Testament). In particular, Stoicism, the apostle Paul and John. Focus on ethics, cosmology and the concept of God.

Also Middle Platonism, including Philo of Alexandria, and the relationship between philosophy and early Christianity up until Origen (early 3rd cent.).

More generally, philosophy and religion (Christianity), including  social scientific perspectives.

Together with prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen, Engberg-Pedersen leads a five-year Centre of Excellence at Copenhagen University (2008-2013) on ‘Naturalism & Christian Semantics’.

Teaching Profile

Engberg-Pedersen teaches at all levels. He particularly enjoys supervising written work as part of the study of theology, including PhD dissertations.

Selected Publications

Aristotle’s Theory of Moral Insight. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 1983 (two reprints).

The Stoic Theory of Oikeiosis: Moral Development and Social Interaction in Early Stoic
Philosophy. Studies in Hellenistic Civilization 2. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press 1990.

(ed.), Paul in His Hellenistic Context. Edinburgh: T&T Clark/Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994.

(co-ed. with Juha Sihvola), The Emotions in Hellenistic Philosophy. The New Synthese
Historical Library 46. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998.

Paul and the Stoics. Edinburgh: T&T Clark/Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000.

(ed.), Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.

(co-ed. with James M. Starr), Early Christian Paraenesis in Context. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 125. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.

(co-ed.), Philosophy at the Roots of Christianity. Working Papers 2, The Faculty of Theology. Copenhagen: The University of Copenhagen, 2006.

“Self-Sufficiency and Power: Divine and Human Agency in Epictetus and Paul,” in J.M.G. Barclay/S.J. Gathercole (eds.), Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment. Library of New Testament Studies 335. London/New York: T&T Clark, 2006, 117-139.

”Gift-Giving and Friendship: Seneca and Paul in Romans 1-8 on the Logic of God’s Charis and Its Human Response,” Harvard Theological Review 101 (2008), 15-44.

Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen

Professor of Systematic Theology

Faculty of Theology
Købmagergade 44-46, PO 2164
1150 Copenhagen K., Denmark

Phone: +45 3532 36 81 / 2089 11 58 (home)

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Research Profile

Science and Religion, especially philosophical issues, the theological significance of evolutionary theory (biological and cultural), and computer-aided complexity studies.

Contemporary theology, esp. concepts of God in 20th century theology, theology of creation; eschatology; Protestantism, yesterday and today.

Philosophical and social anthropology concerning risk and risk-taking, gift and generosity.

Teaching Profile

Prof. Gregersen continuously teaches courses related to the topics listed above, but also sees teaching as an entry into new research topics, so dialogue with students has a considerable impact on his research. He also regularly teaches classes in English, mostly on topics related to Science and Religion.   

Selected Publications

"The Idea of Creation and the Theory of Autopoietic Processes", Zygon 33:3 (1998), 333-67 [responses and reply in Zygon 34:1 (1999)].

"The Complexification of Nature: Supplementing the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm", Theology & Science 4:1 (2006), 5-32 [responses and reply in vols 4:2 and 4:3, 2006].

"Beyond Secularist Supersessionism: Risk, Religion and Technology", Ecotheology 11:2 (2006), 137-158.

The Concept of Nature in Science and Theology I-II. Geneva: Labor & Fides, 1997-98.

Rethinking Theology and Science: Six Models for the Current Dialogue. Eerdmans, 1998.

Scientific and Theological Worldviews I-II. Geneva: Labor & Fides, 1999.

The Human Person in Science and Theology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark/Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Design and Disorder: Perspectives from Science & Theology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2002.

From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Prof. Pia Søltoft

Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Director of the Kierkegaard Library at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Faculty of Theology
Købmagergade 44-46, PO 2164
1150 Copenhagen K., Denmark

Phone: +45 33 76 69 05

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Homepage: http://www.teol.ku.dk/english/staff/profile/?id=167006

Research Profile

Investigating the concept of Love in Kierkegaard’s authorship with reference to its phenomenological and historical appearances

Studying the relation between Ethics and Rhetoric in Kierkegaard's upbuilding discourses

Kierkegaard as a Human Resource. Ethical Leadership, Value Evaluation and Personal Development seen from a Kierkegaardian Perspective.

Teaching Profile

Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, the works of Søren Kierkegaard, the Concept of Love.

Selected Publications

"Der Gegenstand der Pflicht bei Kant und Kierkegaard," in Kierkegaardiana 18 (1996), 65-81.

"The Unhappy Lover of Subjectivity: Is the Pseudonym Johannes Climacus an Unequivocal Figure?," in Kierkegaard Studies:Yearbook 1996, ed. N. J. Cappelørn et al., de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 1996, 255-276.

"Love and Continuity; The Significance of Intersubjectivity in the Second Part of Either-Or," in Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 1997. de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 1997, 210- 227.

"The Presence of the Absent Neighbor in Works of Love," in Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 1998. de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 1998, 113-128. 

"A Literary Review: The Ethical and the Social," in Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 1999. de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 1999, 110-129.

"Anthropology and Ethics: The Connection between Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity as the basis of a Kierkegaardian Anthropology," in Anthropology and Authority: Essays on Søren Kierkegaard. ed. P. Houe et al., Amsterdam/Atlanta, 2000, 41-48.

"To Let Oneself be Upbuilt", Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook 2000. de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2000, 19-39.

Svimmelhedens Etik - om forholdet mellem den enkelte og den anden hos Buber, Lévinas og især Kierkegaard. Gads Forlag: København, 2000.

"Ethics and Irony," in International Kierkegaard Commentary to The Concept of Irony. vol 2. ed. Robert Perkins, Mercer University Press: Georgia, 2001: 265-287.

"Den Nächsten zu kennen heisst der Nächste werden. Über Ethik, Intersubjektivität und Gegenseitigkeit in Taten der Liebe," in Ethik der Liebe. Studien zu Kierkegaards "Taten der Liebe", Religion in Philosophy and Theologie 4. publ. U. Dalferth, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002: 89-109. ("Knowing one's Neighbor is to Become the Neighbor")

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Prof. N. Henrik Gregersen, Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Pia Søltoft, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology