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| birth_place = [[Saarbrücken]], [[Saar Protectorate]] |
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| education = [[Staatsexamen]] (Saarbrücken), |
| education = [[Staatsexamen]] (Saarbrücken), PhD (Chicago), [[Master of Arts|MA]] ([[Trinity College Dublin|Dublin]]), MA ([[University of Oxford|Oxford]]), [[Doctor of Divinity|DD]] ([[University of Toronto]]) |
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| alma_mater = [[Saarland University|University of Saarland]] |
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| spouse = Betty Claesson Jeanrond |
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'''Werner Günter Adolf Jeanrond''' |
'''Werner Günter Adolf Jeanrond''' was Professor of [[Systematic Theology]] with special responsibility for [[Dogmatics]] at the [[University of Oslo]]. He is retired. |
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== Background == |
== Background == |
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Jeanrond is a German [[Roman Catholic]] theologian. He was born in 1955 in [[Saarbrücken]] in the [[Saar (protectorate)|Saar Protectorate]], now [[Saarland]], Germany. He was raised in [[Kleinblittersdorf]], a village on the [[France-Germany border|German-French border]]. His father served as the village's mayor twice. In 2018, he was appointed Professor of [[Systematic Theology]] with special responsibility for [[Dogmatic Theology|Dogmatics]] at the [[University of Oslo]]. He was the first Catholic theologian to hold this post in the university's traditionally [[Lutheran]] Faculty of Theology. He retired in 2022. |
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== Education and academic career == |
== Education and academic career == |
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Jeanrond studied theology, German language and literature, and educational science at the Universities of [[University of Saarbrücken|Saarbrücken]], [[University of Regensburg|Regensburg]] and [[University of Chicago|Chicago]]. In 1979, he took his master's degree ([[Staatsexamen]]) at the University of Saarbrücken. In 1984, he was awarded a PhD at the University of Chicago (under the direction of [[David Tracy]] and [[Paul Ricoeur]]) where he was a [[Fulbright]] scholar. In 1985, he was awarded the degree of MA {{lang|la|jure officii}} at [[Trinity College Dublin]]. |
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From 1981 to 1994, he was |
From 1981 to 1994, he was Lecturer and [[Senior Lecturer]] in theology at [[Trinity College Dublin]] and [[Fellow]] of [[Trinity College Dublin|Trinity College]]. From 1995 to 2007, he was Professor of [[Systematic Theology]] at the [[University of Lund]] in Sweden. While in Lund, he supervised the doctoral dissertation of [[Antje Jackelén]] who was the first woman to be [[Archbishop of Uppsala]] and Primate of the [[Church of Sweden]]. |
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From 2008 |
From 2008 to 2012, he was [[Professor of Divinity, Glasgow|Professor of Divinity]] holding the ''1640 Chair of Divinity'' at the [[University of Glasgow]]. After his departure from Glasgow, he was appointed an Honorary Senior Research Fellow thus maintaining a link with that university.<ref>{{cite web|title=Prof Werner Jeanrond|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/wernerjeanrond/|work=School of Critical Studies|publisher=University of Glasgow|accessdate=21 August 2012}}</ref> |
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From 2012 |
From 2012 to 2018, he was [[Master (college)|Master]] of [[St Benet's Hall, Oxford|St Benet's Hall]] at the [[University of Oxford]], and a member of the [[Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford|Faculty of Theology and Religion]].<ref>{{cite web|title=New Master of St Benet's Hall appointed|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120322_1.html|work=News Release|publisher=University of Oxford|accessdate=21 August 2012}}</ref> He was the first [[laity|lay]] Master in the history of St. Benet's Hall.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top theologian appointed to Benedictine hall|url=http://www.st-benets.ox.ac.uk/images/New%20Master%20News%20Release,%202012-03-14.pdf|publisher=Ampleforth Abbey|accessdate=16 March 2012}}</ref> As an Oxford Head of House and also as a holder of the MA from the University of Dublin, he incepted to the degree of MA [[Ad eundem degree|''ad eundem gradum'']] at the University of Oxford. |
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He has academic administrative experience in a number of roles, including as Head of the School of Biblical and Theological Studies in Trinity College Dublin; as Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Vice-Dean of Humanities at Lund University; as elected member of the [[Swedish Research Council]] and the Nordic Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences; as Research Convenor and Deputy Head of the School of Critical Studies in the University of Glasgow; as a longtime member of the Board and Foundation of [[Concilium (journal)|Concilium]] and of many other editorial and academic boards and committees. |
He has academic administrative experience in a number of roles, including as Head of the School of Biblical and Theological Studies in Trinity College Dublin; as Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Vice-Dean of Humanities at Lund University; as elected member of the [[Swedish Research Council]] and the Nordic Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences; as Research Convenor and Deputy Head of the School of Critical Studies in the University of Glasgow; as a longtime member of the Board and Foundation of [[Concilium (journal)|Concilium]] and of many other editorial and academic boards and committees. |
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== Academic awards and honours == |
== Academic awards and honours == |
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Jeanrond was awarded a [[Fulbright Fellowship]] for his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago (1979–1981), a research fellowship at the [[Herzog August Library]] [[Wolfenbüttel]] (1989), a research fellowship at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities ( |
Jeanrond was awarded a [[Fulbright Fellowship]] for his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago (1979–1981), a research fellowship at the [[Herzog August Library]] [[Wolfenbüttel]] (1989), a research fellowship at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (2002–03), a Robertson Fellowship at the University of Glasgow (2004), and a research fellowship at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the [[University of Copenhagen]] (2007). |
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He has held visiting professorships at the universities of [[University of Uppsala|Uppsala]], Chicago, Regensburg, and [[University of Latvia|Riga]]. He has delivered a number of established lectures, including the Waldenström Lectures ([[University College Stockholm|Stockholm]]), the Wesley Lectures ([[Gothenburg]]), the Donellan Lectures ([[Trinity College |
He has held visiting professorships at the universities of [[University of Uppsala|Uppsala]], Chicago, Regensburg, and [[University of Latvia|Riga]]. He has delivered a number of established lectures, including the Waldenström Lectures ([[University College Stockholm|Stockholm]]), the Wesley Lectures ([[Gothenburg]]), the Donellan Lectures ([[Trinity College Dublin|Dublin]]), the Aquinas Lecture (Glasgow), and the Gonzaga Lecture (Glasgow), and has lectured at many universities and research institutions in Europe, Asia and North America. |
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In 2023, Jeanrond was awarded the degree of [[Doctor of Divinity]] [[honorary degree|''honoris causa'']] by [[Regis College (Toronto)|Regis College]], [[University of Toronto]], for his contributions to academia, church, and society.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chancellor's Lecture |url=https://regiscollege.ca/chancellorslecture/ |website=Regis College |access-date=18 December 2023}}</ref> |
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== Important publications == |
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== Select Publications == |
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* ''Reasons to Hope'', London/New York: T&T Clark, 2020. Translated into Swedish. |
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* {{cite book | last=Jeanrond | first=Werner G. | title=Reasons to hope | publisher=T & T Clark | publication-place=London | date=2020 | isbn=978-0-567-66894-3 | oclc=974672870}} Translated into Swedish. |
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* ''Kyrkans framtid: Teologiska reflexioner III'', Lund: Arcus, 2012. Title in English: ''The Church's Future: Theological Reflections III.'' Available in Swedish only. |
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* {{cite book | last=Jeanrond | first=Werner G. | author2=Prinfo grafiskt center) | title=Teologiska reflexioner. 3, Kyrkans framtid | publisher=Arcus | publication-place=Lund | date=2012 | isbn=978-91-88553-20-1 | oclc=939892343 | language=sv}} Available in Swedish only. |
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* ''A Theology of Love'', London/New York: T&T Clark, 2010. Translated into Chinese, Danish, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. |
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* {{cite book | last=Jeanrond | first=Werner G. | title=A theology of love | publisher=T & T Clark | publication-place=London | date=2010 | isbn=978-0-567-46912-0 | oclc=676697840}} Translated into Chinese, Danish, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. |
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* ''Call and Response: The Challenge of Christian Life'', Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, and New York: Continuum, 1995. Translated into German and Swedish. |
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* {{cite book | last=Jeanrond | first=Werner G. | title=Call and response : the challenge of Christian life | publisher=Continuum | publication-place=New York | date=1995 | isbn=0-8264-0790-0 | oclc=31516949}} Translated into German and Swedish. |
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* ''Theological Hermeneutics: Development and Significance'', London: Macmillan, and New York: Crossroad, 1991. Paperback London: SCM, 1994. Translated into French, Italian, Korean, Polish and Turkish. |
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* {{cite book | last=Jeanrond | first=Werner G. | title=Theological hermeneutics. | publisher=SCM | publication-place=London | date=1994 | isbn=0-334-01624-X | oclc=31817843}} Translated into French, Italian, Korean, Polish and Turkish. |
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* ''Text and Interpretation as Categories of Theological Thinking'', trans. Thomas J. Wilson, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, and New York: Crossroad, 1988. |
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* {{cite book | last=Jeanrond | first=Werner G. | title=Text and interpretation as categories of theological thinking | publisher=Wipf and Stock | publication-place=Eugene, Ore. | date=2005 | isbn=1-59752-436-0 | oclc=69676574}} |
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* ''Text und Interpretation als Kategorien theologischen Denkens'', Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1986. |
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* {{cite book | last=Jeanrond | first=Werner G. | title=Text und Interpretation als Kategorien theologischen Denkens | publisher=Mohr | publication-place=Tübingen | date=1986 | isbn=3-16-145101-5 | oclc=14947906 | language=de}} |
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* ''Recognising the Margins: Essays in Honour of Seán V. Freyne'', with Andrew D. H. Mayes, eds., Dublin: Columba Press, 2006. |
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* {{cite book | last=Freyne | first=Seán. | last2=Jeanrond | first2=Werner G. | last3=Mayes | first3=A. D. H. | title=Recognising the margins : developments in biblical and theological studies : essays in honour of Seán Freyne | publisher=Columba Press | publication-place=Blackrock, Co. Dublin | date=2006 | isbn=1-85607-549-4 | oclc=84899066}} |
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* ''The Concept of God in Global Dialogue'', with Aasulv Lande, eds., Maryknoll: Orbis, 2005. |
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* {{cite book | last=Jeanrond | first=Werner G. | last2=Lande | first2=Aasulv | title=The concept of God in global dialogue | publisher=Orbis Books | publication-place=Maryknoll, N.Y. | date=2005 | isbn=1-57075-586-8 | oclc=58546659}} |
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== Festschrift/Essays in honour of Werner G Jeanrond == |
== Festschrift/Essays in honour of Werner G Jeanrond == |
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* {{cite book | last=Schmiedel | first=Ulrich | last2=Matarazzo | first2=James | last3=Jeanrond | first3=Werner G. | title=Dynamics of difference : Christianity and alterity, a Festschrift for Werner G. Jeanrond |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic | publication-place=London, UK | date=2015 | isbn=978-0-567-67183-7 | oclc=999625083}} |
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* ''Dynamics of Difference: Christianity and Alterity. A Festschrift for Werner G Jeanrond'', eds. Ulrich Schmiedel and James M Matarazzo, Jr, London and New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015. |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Latest revision as of 00:55, 19 March 2024
Werner Jeanrond | |
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Born | |
Citizenship | German |
Education | Staatsexamen (Saarbrücken), PhD (Chicago), MA (Dublin), MA (Oxford), DD (University of Toronto) |
Alma mater | University of Saarland |
Occupation | Theologian |
Years active | 1981–present |
Spouse | Betty Claesson Jeanrond |
Werner Günter Adolf Jeanrond was Professor of Systematic Theology with special responsibility for Dogmatics at the University of Oslo. He is retired.
Background
[edit]Jeanrond is a German Roman Catholic theologian. He was born in 1955 in Saarbrücken in the Saar Protectorate, now Saarland, Germany. He was raised in Kleinblittersdorf, a village on the German-French border. His father served as the village's mayor twice. In 2018, he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology with special responsibility for Dogmatics at the University of Oslo. He was the first Catholic theologian to hold this post in the university's traditionally Lutheran Faculty of Theology. He retired in 2022.
Education and academic career
[edit]Jeanrond studied theology, German language and literature, and educational science at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Regensburg and Chicago. In 1979, he took his master's degree (Staatsexamen) at the University of Saarbrücken. In 1984, he was awarded a PhD at the University of Chicago (under the direction of David Tracy and Paul Ricoeur) where he was a Fulbright scholar. In 1985, he was awarded the degree of MA jure officii at Trinity College Dublin.
From 1981 to 1994, he was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in theology at Trinity College Dublin and Fellow of Trinity College. From 1995 to 2007, he was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Lund in Sweden. While in Lund, he supervised the doctoral dissertation of Antje Jackelén who was the first woman to be Archbishop of Uppsala and Primate of the Church of Sweden.
From 2008 to 2012, he was Professor of Divinity holding the 1640 Chair of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. After his departure from Glasgow, he was appointed an Honorary Senior Research Fellow thus maintaining a link with that university.[1]
From 2012 to 2018, he was Master of St Benet's Hall at the University of Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion.[2] He was the first lay Master in the history of St. Benet's Hall.[3] As an Oxford Head of House and also as a holder of the MA from the University of Dublin, he incepted to the degree of MA ad eundem gradum at the University of Oxford.
He has academic administrative experience in a number of roles, including as Head of the School of Biblical and Theological Studies in Trinity College Dublin; as Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Vice-Dean of Humanities at Lund University; as elected member of the Swedish Research Council and the Nordic Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences; as Research Convenor and Deputy Head of the School of Critical Studies in the University of Glasgow; as a longtime member of the Board and Foundation of Concilium and of many other editorial and academic boards and committees.
Research interests
[edit]Systematic theology (Doctrine of God, Christology, ecclesiology, eschatology, soteriology); theological and philosophical hermeneutics; theological method; theology of religions; theology of love; theology of hope; political theology.
Academic awards and honours
[edit]Jeanrond was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago (1979–1981), a research fellowship at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel (1989), a research fellowship at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (2002–03), a Robertson Fellowship at the University of Glasgow (2004), and a research fellowship at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen (2007).
He has held visiting professorships at the universities of Uppsala, Chicago, Regensburg, and Riga. He has delivered a number of established lectures, including the Waldenström Lectures (Stockholm), the Wesley Lectures (Gothenburg), the Donellan Lectures (Dublin), the Aquinas Lecture (Glasgow), and the Gonzaga Lecture (Glasgow), and has lectured at many universities and research institutions in Europe, Asia and North America.
In 2023, Jeanrond was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa by Regis College, University of Toronto, for his contributions to academia, church, and society.[4]
Select Publications
[edit]- Jeanrond, Werner G. (2020). Reasons to hope. London: T & T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-66894-3. OCLC 974672870. Translated into Swedish.
- Jeanrond, Werner G.; Prinfo grafiskt center) (2012). Teologiska reflexioner. 3, Kyrkans framtid (in Swedish). Lund: Arcus. ISBN 978-91-88553-20-1. OCLC 939892343. Available in Swedish only.
- Jeanrond, Werner G. (2010). A theology of love. London: T & T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-46912-0. OCLC 676697840. Translated into Chinese, Danish, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish.
- Jeanrond, Werner G. (1995). Call and response : the challenge of Christian life. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-0790-0. OCLC 31516949. Translated into German and Swedish.
- Jeanrond, Werner G. (1994). Theological hermeneutics. London: SCM. ISBN 0-334-01624-X. OCLC 31817843. Translated into French, Italian, Korean, Polish and Turkish.
- Jeanrond, Werner G. (2005). Text and interpretation as categories of theological thinking. Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock. ISBN 1-59752-436-0. OCLC 69676574.
- Jeanrond, Werner G. (1986). Text und Interpretation als Kategorien theologischen Denkens (in German). Tübingen: Mohr. ISBN 3-16-145101-5. OCLC 14947906.
- Freyne, Seán.; Jeanrond, Werner G.; Mayes, A. D. H. (2006). Recognising the margins : developments in biblical and theological studies : essays in honour of Seán Freyne. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Columba Press. ISBN 1-85607-549-4. OCLC 84899066.
- Jeanrond, Werner G.; Lande, Aasulv (2005). The concept of God in global dialogue. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. ISBN 1-57075-586-8. OCLC 58546659.
Festschrift/Essays in honour of Werner G Jeanrond
[edit]- Schmiedel, Ulrich; Matarazzo, James; Jeanrond, Werner G. (2015). Dynamics of difference : Christianity and alterity, a Festschrift for Werner G. Jeanrond. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-567-67183-7. OCLC 999625083.
References
[edit]- ^ "Prof Werner Jeanrond". School of Critical Studies. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
- ^ "New Master of St Benet's Hall appointed". News Release. University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
- ^ "Top theologian appointed to Benedictine hall" (PDF). Ampleforth Abbey. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- ^ "Chancellor's Lecture". Regis College. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
External links
[edit]- Academic staff of the University of Oslo
- Academics of the University of Glasgow
- Academics of Trinity College Dublin
- Masters of St Benet's Hall, Oxford
- Living people
- 20th-century German Catholic theologians
- 21st-century German Catholic theologians
- Saarland University alumni
- People connected to Lund University
- 1955 births
- German male non-fiction writers