Events - Page 3

How can Christianity be a voice of queerness within our society? Hear scholars and activists discuss this question. 

Niels Valdemar Vinding presents his theoretical frame for the research of his ‘Imams of the West’ research project. It is an exploratory analysis of the institutional and epistemic authority of imams, which is framed as a typology.

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.

This meeting will bring together international experts on male circumcision in its early Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman context. They will exchange views on ancient sources and recent scholarship, examining the contested place of circumcision in Antiquity in light of contemporary questions, both in academia and in society more broadly.

Faculty of Theology, in collaboration with Norwegian School of Theology welcomes Professor Jens Schröter from Humboldt University in Berlin.

Although discovered in the early 1960s, several aspects of the synagogue in the ancient harbor city of Ostia outside Rome have remained unrevealed. Dr. Mary Jane Cuyler presents recent discoveries in this lecture. 

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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.

What does it mean - philosophically and ethically - to look at migration from a refugees perspective? Bernhard Waldenfels, one of Europes leading philosophers, gives his answers in this lecture.

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

This focused masterclass uses Linn Tonstad's work in queer and constructive theology as a point of departure for examining questions of method and content in the intersections (or failed encounters) between theology and sexuality.

Open lecture with Linn Tonstad, associate professor at Yale University and professor II at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo

Professor Torkel Brekke has studied muslims who are excluded from interest-based loans and how they establish alternative models of funding.

Lecture tittle: Introduction to the course “Texts from Deuteronomy”.The lecture should include historical and theological perspectives. 

Lecture tittle: Introduction to the course “Texts from Deuteronomy”.The lecture should include historical and theological perspectives. 

Lecture tittle: Introduction to the course “Texts from Deuteronomy”.The lecture should include historical and theological perspectives. 

Are you an international student looking for a full time, professional job in Norway after graduation?

Are you an international student looking for a full time, professional job in Norway after graduation?

At this seminar PhD-students, postdocs and Master´s students at UiO and NMBU had the opportunity to create networks outside academia. 

It is two years since the inauguration of Donald as the president of the United States. Trump got electoral support from an overwhelming majority of white evangelical Christians. How could these groups of Evangelical Christians embrace Trump’s candidacy? How is the alliance between the president and these Christian groups manifested? Is Trump a Christian president?

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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.