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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.
"The Contribution of Agonistic Theology to Contemporary Ecclesiology."
Welcome to this open guest lecture with Professor Christoph W. Stenschke, University of South Africa
The long journey of human self-discovery has reached a crucial stage. Urbanisation is changing us all, and there is no possibility of turning back from this great change in human history.
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
After the terror attacks in Norway on the 22nd of July 2011, it became clear that the perpetrator saw himself as part of a larger European network propagating a far-right worldview in which multiculturalism and pluralism are anathema.
Rosemarie van den Breemer will defend her doctoral dissertation: "Governing Cemeteries: State Responses to the New Diversity in The Netherlands, Norway and France" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.
"Governing Religious Diversity in 21st century Europe: A Critical Assessment of the Relationships between Secularism, Nation-State, and Religion"
A circumcised male Jew seeking to evade capture and death in Nazi-occupied Europe by concealing his identity faced an ever-present threat. The scholarly literature on Jews in hiding, however, only makes passing mention of the threat posed by the uncovered circumcised penis.
Jesus tells husbands to leave their wives, praises men who make themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven, never marries, and fathers no children. He forbids divorce; he condemns lust.
Christian preaching and teaching often presents Judaism as xenophobic, legalistic and obsessed with ritual purity, elitist and money-loving, militaristic, and misogynist.
Paula Jean Tutty will defend her doctoral dissertation: "The Monks of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Contextualising a Fourth Century Monastic Community" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.
"The role of monasticism in shaping Jerusalem into a Holy City and goal for pilgrims".
A seminar with Dr Mohammed Hashas - Senior Research Fellow, FSCIRE-La Pira Center for Islamic Studies, Palermo, Italy.
Welcome to ONTEC-lecture with professor Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University, USA
Buy a new bicycle, or get your old one fixed for free, or sell it at the bicycle party!
Reduce, reuse, recycle - those are the three important R's when it comes to living an environmental friendly life as a student. At this event, can you get used furniture for your student home (for free!), take part in our clothes swap market and learn how to reduce your climate footprint as a student.
Kari Zakariassen will defend her doctoral dissertation: ""My People Consult Their Tree…" Human-Divine Interaction in Arboreal Spaces in the Ancient Levant" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Theology.
"The Book of Chronicles: Rewritten History?"
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.
Wally V. Cirafesi will defend his doctoral dissertation: "John within Judaism: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Shaping of Jesus-Oriented Jewishness in the Fourth Gospel" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Theology.
"John within Hellenism? A critical assessment of recent arguments for locating the Gospel of John within a Greco-Roman conceptual and cultural framework (philosophy, imperial discourse, literary genre, Greek language, etc.)."
Dominic Amonzem will defend his doctoral dissertation: "Gendering Marriage: Exploring Kasena Marriage Practices in North-East Ghana" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Theology.