Previous events

The Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies proudly presents Dr. Chris Keith, Research Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at St Mary's University, Twickenham and Research Professor of Theology at The University of Notre Dame Autralia.

Thunder, Voice, and Fire: Ephemeral Archives, Sonic Residues, and a Virgin's Visions in Late Antiquity

Ole Jakob Løland will present his work on Political Theology in Pope Francis.

In this seminar, Simone Kotva will be presenting work-in-progress from her book on mysticism and ecology, which focuses on case studies taken from the controversial tradition of early modern Enthusiasm and non-conformist spirituality, especially the work of Jeanne Guyon.

Welcome to a (digital) research seminar in Systematic Theology with Professor Chloë Starr (Yale): "Christian Faith in China Today"

Welcome to a (digital) research seminar in Systematic Theology with Prof Linn Tonstad (Yale/Oslo) : "Writing and Genre in Systematic Theology"

The architecture of the Constantinian Church of the Holy Sepulchre was both a receptacle for Jesus tradition as well as a vehicle for the transmission of ideological interpretations of that tradition and the person that it commemorated. It was a bifocal complex, incorporating the traditional sites of Golgotha and the tomb of Jesus in its layout.

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

The relationship between religion and modernity is complex. Through the works of J. Habermas and W. Benjamin, Professor Wenzel will discuss and explore the emerging potential for a constructive reevaluation of this relationship.

Catherine Cornille is Professor of Comparative Theology, Boston College

Welcome to ONTEC-lecture with professor Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University, USA

Werner G. Jeanrond will deliver a keynote paper at the conference "Love: Contemporary Perspectives in Literature, Philosophy, and Theology", at UiT-The Arctic University, Tromsø, Norway

The Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies proudly presents Dr. Holger Zellentin, Lecturer in Classical Rabbinic Judaism at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

The Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies proudly presents Dr. Brent Nongbri, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

A pioneer of Christian monasticism in the 3rd and 4th centuries, St. Antony was highly influential, not least through the highly popular Life of St. Antony written by Athanasius of Alexandria. Inspired by this text, Jerome decided to write a rival biography focusing on another early monk, St. Paul the Hermit

Professor Leif E. Vaage is the second lecturer in the new series Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies. Vaage is Professor of New Testament at Emmanuel college of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

Dr. Andrew Krause is the first lecturer in the new series Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies. Krause is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Exzellenzcluster “Religion und Politik” at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Professor Dr. Thomas Kaufmann and Professor Dr. Yvonne Sherwood are new honorary doctors at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology. They will both give a lecture in a seminar with the topic "Afterlife of the reformation. Biblical reception and cultural impact".   The seminar is open to everyone. Welcome!