Werner G. Jeanrond

Professor of Divinity

Contact Details

Office: +44 (0)141 330 5053
Email: W.Jeanrond@divinity.arts.gla.ac.uk

About

Werner G. Jeanrond gained his Master's degree with distinction from the University of Saarbrücken in 1979, and as a Fulbright scholar, his PhD with distinction from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1984. He was lecturer, senior lecturer, and Head of School at Trinity College Dublin between 1981 and 1994. Between 1995-2007, he was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

His achievements and honours include:

• Research Fellow at the Herzog August Library at Wolfenbüttel, 1989
• Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, 1991
• Waldenström Lectures, Stockholm School of Theology, 1995
• Wesley Lectures, Methodist College Gothenburg, 1996
• Donellan Lectures, Trinity College Dublin, 2001
• Research Fellowship (full time), Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2002-3
• Robertson Lecturer, University of Glasgow, March 2004

Teaching Areas

Teaching interests include systematic theology, christology, ecclesiology, political theology, theology of love, hermeneutics, and ethics.

Research interests

Philosophical and theological hermeneutics; theological method; the concept of God; ecclesiology; political theology; the theology of love.

Areas of postgraduate supervision

Werner G. Jeanrond welcomes research applications in systematic theology, hermeneutics, and political theology.

Selected Publications

Monographs

• A Theology of Love (London: Continuum, 2009)
• Gudstro: Teologiska reflexioner II (Lund: Arcus, 2001).
• Guds närvaro: Teologiska reflexioner 1 (Lund: Arcus, 1998). Second and revised edition 2006.
• Call and Response: The Challenge of Christian Life (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, and New York: Continuum, 1995).
• Theological Hermeneutics: Development and Significance. Studies in Literature and Religion (London: Macmillan, 1991 [reprint 1993] and New York: Crossroad, 1993).
  Paperback edition London: SCM 1994, 1997, 2002 and 2007.
• Text und Interpretation als Katgeorien theologischen Denkens. Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 23 (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1986).
  English edition: Text and Interpretation as Categories of Theological Thinking, trans. Thomas J. Wilson (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, and New York: Crossroad, 1988). Reprinted 2005 by Wipf and Stock, Eugene, Oregon.

Collective Works

• Werner G. Jeanrond and Andrew D. H. Mayes, eds., Recognising the Margins: Essays in Honour of Seán V. Freyne (Dublin: Columba Press, 2006).
• Anne-Louise Eriksson, Cristina Grenholm, Werner G. Jeanrond, Johnny Jonsson, and Fredrik Lindström, Öppningar: En Bok om Bibeln (Skellefteâ: Nya Doxa, 2004). Reprinted 2005.
• Werner G. Jeanrond and Aasulv Lande, eds., The Concept of God in Global Dialogue (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2005).

Chapters in Collected Works

• "Christian Visions for Global Community", in Sturla J. Stâlsett, ed., Religion in a Globalised Age: Transfers & Transformations, Integration & Resistance (Oslo: Novus Press, 2008), 157-169.
• "Love Enlightened: The Promises and Ambiguities of Love", in Lieven Boeve, Joeri Schrijvers, Wessel Stoker and Hendrik M. Vroom, eds., Faith in the Enlightenment? The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited, Current of Encounter 30 (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi 2006), 269-291.
• "Der Gott der Liebe: Entwicklungen des theologischen Liebesbegriffs bei Plutarch und in der frühen Kirche", in Herwig Görgemanns, ed., Plutarch: Dialog über die Liebe Amatorius. Reihe SAPERE X (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006), 274-293.
• "Theology in the One World", in Gesa E. Thiessen and Declan Marmion, eds., Theology in the Making: Biography, Contexts, Methods (Dublin: Veritas, 2005), 93-102.
• "Theology", in John Bowden, ed., Christianity: The Complete Guide (London: Continuum, 2005), 1174-1189.
• "Der christliche Gottesglaube und die Erneuerung der Kirche", in Ferdinand R. Prostmeier and Knut Wenzel, eds., Zukunft der Kirche — Kirche der Zukunft: Bestandsaufnahmen — Modelle — Perspektiven (Regensburg: Pustet, 2004), 23-42.
• "Belonging or Identity? Christian Faith in a Multi-Religious World", in Catherine Cornille, ed., Many Mansions? Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2002), 106-120.

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