Research news
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Growing number of Muslim pilgrims in Europe
June 15, 2018 4:21 PM
Pilgrimages have become more popular all over the world in recent years. New pilgrimage sites are emerging and in Europe Muslims and Christians are visiting each other’s pilgrimage sites.
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Small coin, big politics
Dec. 21, 2016 2:59 PM
Situated on the coast of present-day Lebanon, the ancient Phoenician city-state of Sidon was in the middle of the crossfire between the Persians, Greeks and Egyptians. A small lump of metal became an important part of their political and economic balancing act.
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The Nag Hammadi Codices were made by monks
Jan. 12, 2016 12:37 PM
The provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices has been a point of contention among scholars ever since they were discovered in Upper Egypt in 1945. A new book strongly supports the hypothesis that they were manufactured and read by Christian monks in the fourth and fifth centuries.
Research events
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Open seminar with Lord Stephen Green
Jan. 28, 2020 2:00 PM
You are warmly invited to attend the Systematic Theology research group seminar with Stephen (Lord) Green. The seminar will focus on his recently published book: The Human Odessey: East, West and the Search for Universal Values
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Guest lecture with Lord Stephen Green: East, West and the Search for Universal Values
Jan. 29, 2020 10:00 AM
Stephen Green has been a celebrated contributor to contemporary debates and international conversations on cultural, geopolitical, religious and environmental issues that face the increasingly connected and urbanized peoples of Europe and Asia.
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Public defence: Sven Thore Kloster
Feb. 13, 2020 12:00 PM
Sven Thore Kloster will defend his doctoral dissertation: "Towards an Agonistic Theology. A Political Reading of the Concepts of Tradition in the Christian Theologies of Gerhard Ebeling and Kathryn Tanner," for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.