Werner G. Jeanrond

Academic interests

Christian theology in a global age; the question of God; theology as a relational discipline; theology of love; reasons to hope; faith in multicultural contexts; ecclesiology; political theology; religion, transcendence and transformation.

Courses taught

• TEOL4150 - Religionsfilosofi og dogmatikk 

• REDI4302 - Master Thesis

• RRE4302 - Master Thesis in Religious Roots of Europe

Employment History

• Professor of Systematic Theology (Dogmatics), University of Oslo (2018-)
• Master of St Benet’s Hall and Professor of Theology, University of Oxford (2012-18)
• Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow (2008-12)
• Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Lund (1995-2007)
• Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (1981-94)

International Lectures

• Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Chicago, Regensburg, Riga, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Glasgow, Copenhagen, and at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
• Research Fellowship (full time) at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies
  in the Humanities (2002-3)
• Invited lectures at many universities throughout Europe, North America, and Asia
• Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Chicago (1979-81)
• Member of the Swedish Royal Society of Letters, Lund (1995)
• Member of Vetenskapssocieteten at Lund (1995)
• Special Lectures:
  • Waldenström Lectures, Stockholm School of Theology 1993
  • Wesley Lectures, Methodist College Gothenburg 1996
  • Donellan Lectures, Trinity College Dublin 2001
  • Robertson Lecture, University of Glasgow 2004
  • Aquinas Lecture, Strathclyde University Glasgow 2010
  • Gonzaga Lecture, Glasgow 2011
  • Hulsean Sermon, University of Cambridge 2016
  • Croall Lectures, University of Edinburgh 2017
  • Candlemas Lecture, Boston College 2019

Editorial Appointments 

Hermathena (1988-)

CONCILIUM. Member of the Board of Directors (1991-2001); Member of the Scientific Committee (2001-)

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift (1994-2008), editor 1997-2002; 2005

Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1994-98)

Biblical Interpretation (1991-2011)

The Scottish Journal of Theology (2001-05)

Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie (2009-)

Dinbilimleri-Turkish Journal of Religious Studies (2009-)

Irish Theological Quarterly (2011-)

Theological Studies (2015-)

Appointments

• Elected member of the Swedish Research Council (2001-3)
• Elected member of the Nordic Research Council for the Humanities (2001-3)