PhD Courses in Denmark

13.00-13.15

Welcome

Location: Faculty of Theology, 6B-1-62

13.15-13.30

Recollection and Introduction

13.15-13.30

Head of Center for the Study of Paradoxes Johanne S. T. Kristensen: “From Faith, Scripture and Practice to Truth?”

13.30-18.15

Young Scholars Program

13.30-14.15

Postdoc Maria Munkholt Christensen, University of Bonn, “Truth in Narrative Form: Revisiting Early Christian Women’s Lives and Their Truth”

14.15-15.00

Doctoral student Gustav Graeser Damgaard, University of Copenhagen, “Transcendental History: Truth, incarnation and writing in Husserl and Derrida”

15.00-15.30

Coffee Break

15.30-16.15

Doctoral student Annette Hjort Knudsen, “‘The flickering light of truth’ – Hannah Arendt’s understanding of true stories in dark times”

16.15-17.00

Doctoral student Anders Skou Jørgensen, “J.L. Austin on Truth”

17.00-17.45

Student Andreas Alexander Ekkert “Dogmatics and Biblical Exegesis: Investigation of a Problem?”

17.45

Summary and Drinks

10.15-12.00

Open Lecture, open for all, no registration:

Location: Faculty of Theology, Kierkegaard Auditoriet, 9A-0-01
Professor Stefan Dienstbeck, Rostock: “A Question of Truth: The Importance of the Confessional Tradition for a Current Understanding of Faith”

What is truth? The question posed by none other than Pontius Pilate during the trial of Jesus is more relevant to theology today than ever before. Whereas early Christian confessional theology and dogmatic theology up to the Enlightenment assumed that their statements were true, or at least wanted to be true, in 20th and 21st century theology there is a big hesitation in this regard. What significance can biblical texts and confessional traditions still have for theological statements today? How can theological statements still be made without immediately running the risk of negating reason and becoming unscientific? The lecture will take up precisely these questions and, taking into account theological positions of the 20th century, will try to work out how to deal with truth claims in theology. The considerations culminate in the thesis, based on Paul Tillich, that a Christian approach to the question of truth must always fulfil a Christological criterion in order to avoid turning into heresy or heterodoxy.

12.00-13.00

Lunch

Location: Faculty of Theology

13.00-14.00

Lecture with the Church History Section/Copenhagen Centre for
Christianity and Antiquity

Location: 7C-1-19

Senior Research Fellow Juliette Day, University of Helsinki: “Materiality, the Senses and the History of Liturgical Experience”

14.00-17.30

Conference Lectures

Location: Faculty of Theology, 6B-1-62

14.00-15.00

Professor Emeritus Mogens Müller, Faculty of Theology, University of
Copenhagen: “God as Pure Love. Marcion’s Rejection of a Paradoxical Perception of God”

15.00-15.30

Coffee Break

15.30-16.30

Associate Professor Sasja Stopa, University of Aarhus: “Luther, Truth and the Early Church”

16.30-17.30

Postdoc Matthias Ruf, Tübingen University: “Truth and the Development of Doctrine”

17.30

Conference Dinner (speakers are invited, participants are welcome)

Expected location: Hotel Guldsmeden, Gullfossgade 4, Islands Brygge