Download MHS School of Mission and Theology PhD Graduates 2015

MHS School of Mission and Theology
PhD Graduates
2015
Amador Israel Cavedes Mandujano
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Title: “Christian Mission in Urban Context: Identifying Main Conditioning Factors in
the Growth of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Lima, Peru” (School of
Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 24)
Trial lecture: “Present and discuss the main issues in the research on church growth in
Protestantism in Latin America”
Supervisor: Professor Thor Strandenæs (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor emeritus Tormod Engelsviken (MF Norwegian School
of Theology, Oslo), Professor Asle Jøssang (NLA University College, Kristiansand),
Professor Marianne Skjortnes (MHS School of Mission and Theology).
Stefan Lindholm
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Title: “De Incarnatione Filij Dei: Jerome Zanchi (1516-90) and the Analysis of
Reformed Scholastic Christology” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation
Series, 23)
Trial lecture: “Present the biblical foundation and the practical application of the
understanding of Christ as a union of two natures”
Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Rehnmann (MHS School of Mission and Theology
and University of Stavanger)
Doctoral committee: Professor emeritus Paul Helm (United Kingdom), Professor
Maria Rosa Antognazza. King’s College, London (United Kingdom), Professor Knut
Alfsvåg, MHS School of Mission and Theology
Meiken Buchholz
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Title: “‘New Wine in Ancient Teacups?’: A Comparative Study of Chinese Narrative
Ethics from Preachers' Pulpits and Teachers' Desks in Beijing at the Beginning of the
21st Century” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 22)
Trial lecture: “Confucian legacy in contemporary Chinese urban preaching: examples
from Beijing”
Supervisor: Professor Thor Strandenæs (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
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Doctoral committee: Professor Fredrik Fällmann, University of Gothenburg (Sweden),
Professor Monika Gaenssbauer, University of Erlangen (Germany), Professor Hans
Austnaberg, MHS School of Mission and Theology.
2014
Grete Tengsareid Søvik
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Title: “‘In the middle of sin is I’: En analyse av forholdet mellom narsissistiske trekk I
vår kultur og forkynnelse av frelse fra synd I åtte prekener holdt på NRK P1 I
kirkeåret 2007-2008” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 21)
Trial lecture: “‘Du skal elske din neste som deg selv’ er et sentralt bud i Det nye
testamente, samtidig som synd er blitt forstått som det å være ‘innkrøkt i seg selv’.
Drøft med utgangspunkt i disse sitatene selvkjærlighet som teologisk utfordring”
Supervisor: Professor Hans Austnaberg and Professor Bård Mæland (MHS School of
Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Bernice Sundkvist (Åbo Akademi, Finland), Professor
Paul Otto Brunstad (NLA Høgskolen, Bergen), Professor Knut Alfsvåg (MHS School
of Mission and Theology)
Tom Sverre Tomren
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Title: “Miljøetikk og økoteologi i Den norske kyrkja: Ein analyse av miljøfråsegnene
til Den norske kyrkja i perioden 1969-2007” (School of Mission and Theology
Dissertation Series, 20)
Trial lecture: “Økoteologi – aktuelle trender og kritiske perspektiver med sikte på
konstruktive nyansatser”
Supervisor: Professor Bård Mæland (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Roald E. Kristiansen (University of Tromsø), Dr
Katarina Westerlund (Uppsala University), Professor Torstein Jørgensen (MHS
School of Mission and Theology)
Terese Bue Kessel
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Title: “Between God’s sharing power and men’s controlling power: A quest for
diaconal empowerment and transformation in Femmes Pour Christ in Cameroon”
(School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 19)
Trial lecture: “How are gender relations in African church and society expressed in
the work of the ‘Circle of Concerned Women Theologians’ and what contribution
could this make to the thesis”
Supervisor: Professor Kjell Nordstokke (Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo)
and Professor Tomas Sundnes Drønen (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
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Doctoral committee: Dr Elieshi Mungure (Lutheran World Federation, Geneva), Dr
Auli Vähäkangas (Helsinki University), Professor Hans Austnaberg (MHS School of
Mission and Theology)
2013
Tor Arne A. Berntsen
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Title: “Life after violence: Towards a shared moral discourse on reconciliation in
Northern Uganda” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 18)
Trial lecture: “The relation between forgiveness and reconciliation as a social and
theological problem”
Supervisor: Professor Bård Mæland (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Joanna R. Quinn (Western University, Canada),
Professor Gunnar Heiene (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo), Professor Knut
Alfsvåg (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
2012
Øyvind Rise
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Title: “‘Sharing in the life of God’: A study and discussion of the theme of
participation in divine life” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 17)
Trial lecture: “2 Peter 1:4 and human participation in divine life”
Supervisor: Professor Knut Alfsvåg (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Aristotle Papanikolaou (Fordham University, New
York), Professor Kirsten Busch Nielsen (University of Copenhagen), Professor Bård
Mæland (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu
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Title: “The use of ritual in the reintegration of female ex-child soldiers in Northern
Uganda” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 16)
Trial lecture: “African traditional religion and African charismatic Christianity:
Continuity and/or discontinuity?”
Supervisor: Professor Gerd Marie Ådna (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Alcinda Honwana, Open University (UK), Professor
Anne Kalvig (University of Stavanger, Norway), Professor Knut Holter (MHS School
of Mission and Theology)
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Nkabala Helen Nambalirwa
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Title: “‘There is no difference between Moses and Kony’: A critical analysis of the
contextual use of some Old Testament texts and motifs in the early years of the Lord’s
Resistance Army” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 15)
Trial lecture: “A gender-sensitive ethical reading of Old Testament texts: The role of
African women”
Supervisors: Professor Knut Holter, Professor Marta Høyland Lavik (both MHS
School of Mission and Theology), Professor Deusdedit Nkurunziza (Makerere
University, Uganda)
Doctoral committee: Professor Madipoane Masenya (University of South Africa,
Pretoria), Dr Auli Vähäkangas (University of Helsinki), Professor Kari Storstein Haug
(MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Frank-Ole Thoresen
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Title: “The church as the reconciled community of suffering disciples of Ciise
Masiix”” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 14)
Trial lecture: “Divisions in the church in Africa as an ecumenical and missiological
challenge”
Supervisor: Professor Thor Strandenæs (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Jesse N.K. Mugambi (University of Nairobi), Professor
Tormod Engelsviken (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo), Professor Knut
Alfsvåg (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Ruben Ngozo
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Title: “The one God and the many gods: Monotheism and idolatry in 1 Cor 8:1-11:1
in the light of Philo’s writings” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series,
13)
Trial lecture: “Ancestors’ veneration or ancestors’ worship among the Gbaya of
Cameroon?”
Supervisor: Professor Torrey Seland (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole (United Bible Society
(Nairobi) and University of South Africa (Pretoria), Professor Karl Olav Sandnes (MF
Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo), Postdoc Anna Rebecca Solevåg (MHS School
of Mission and Theology)
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2011
Morten Sandland
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Title: “Joining new congregations – motives, ways and consequences: A comparative
study of new congregations in a Norwegian folk church and a Thai minority church”
(School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 12)
Trial lecture: “The importance of local case studies in missiology”
Supervisor: Professor Knut Alfsvåg (MHS School of Mission and Theology) and
Harald Hegstad (MF Norwegian School of Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Kajsa Ahlstrand (University of Uppsala), Reader Hans
Raun Iversen (University of Copenhagen), Professor Kari Storstein Haug, (MHS
School of Mission and Theology)
Gunnar Magnus Eidsvåg
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Title: “The Septuagint of Zechariah: A study of LXX-Zechariah as translation and
interpretation” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 11)
Trial lecture: “The reception of the Book of Zechariah in the Gospel of Matthew, with
particular emphasis on material unique to Matthew among the Synoptic Gospels”
Supervisor: Professor Magnar Kartveit (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Emanuel Tov (Hebrew University, Jerusalem),
Professor Raija Sollamo (University of Helsinki), Professor Jostein Ådna (MHS
School of Mission and Theology)
Kristin Fjelde Tjelle
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Title: “Missionary masculinity: The case of the Norwegian Lutheran Missionaries to
the Zulus, 1870-1930” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 10)
Trial lecture: “New men and women: Norwegian mission and indigenous Christianity
in South Africa in a gender perspective”
Supervisor: Professor Roald Berg (University of Stavanger) and Professor Odd Magne
Bakke (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Philippe Denis (University KwaZulu-Natal,
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), Professor Yvonne Maria Werner (University of Lund,
Sweden), Professor Torstein Jørgensen (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
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2010
Alf Petter Hagesæther
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Title: “Makt og etikk: Norsk militær profesjonsetisk diskurs 1959-2009” (School of
Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 9)
Trial lecture: “Naturrett i luthersk etikk - et tjenlig utgangspunkt for etikkundervisning
i et pluralistisk samfunn?”
Supervisor: Professor Bård Mæland (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Dr Henrik Syse (University of Oslo), Professor Janne Haaland
Matlary (University of Oslo), Professor Knut Alfsvåg (MHS School of Mission and
Theology)
2009
Hans Arne Akerø
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Title: “Det hellige som sentralbegrep i religion: En religionsfilosofisk analyse av
Rudolf Ottos og Manfred Josuttis religionsfenomenologiske hellighetsforståelse”
(School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 8)
Trial lecture: “No other holiness? En religionsteologisk drøfting av det hellige I andre
religioner”
Supervisor: Professor António Barbosa da Silva (MHS School of Mission and
Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Trond Skard Dokka (University of Oslo), Professor
Anne Stensvold (University of Oslo), Professor Bård Mæland (MHS School of
Mission and Theology)
2008
Kari Storstein Haug
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Title: “‘As you sow, you will reap’: Interpreting Proverbs 11:18-31, Psalm 73, and
Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 in the light of, and as a response to Thai Buddhist interpretations.
A contribution to a Christian-Buddhist dialogue” (School of Mission and Theology
Dissertation Series, 7)
Trial lectures: “Cultural affirmation or innovation? Christian spirituality in its Thai
cultural context” (topic of own choice), and “African Christian Strategies in relation to
the HIV/AIDS pandemic” (given topic)
Supervisor: Professor Thor Strandenæs (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
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Doctoral committee: Professor Kajsa Ahlstrand (University of Uppsala), Dr Seree
Lorgunpai (General Secretary, Bible Society of Thailand), Professor Knut Holter
(MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Ingeborg A.K. Kvammen
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Title: “Imperial presence in the assembly: An interpretation of Jas 2:1-13 with a
postcolonial optic” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 6)
Trial lectures: “Is mercy a virtue? Mercy in Jewish-Christian and Graeco-Roman
contexts” (topic of own choice), and “The literary and hermeneutical relevance of
reconstructing Johannine sources” (given topic)
Supervisor: Professor Jostein Ådna (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Gosnell L. Yorke (Northern Caribbean University),
Professor Eve-Marie Becker (University of Aarhus), Professor Torrey Seland (MHS
School of Mission and Theology)
2007
Tomas Sundnes Drønen
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Title: “Communication, conversion, and conservation: The Dii meet the Norwegian
Missionaries. Northern Cameroon 1934-1960” (School of Mission and Theology
Dissertation Series, 5)
Trial lectures: “Slavespørsmål og visumstrid: Fransk koloniadministrasjons
overvåking av norske misjonærer i Nord-Kamerun 1950-56” (topic of own choice),
and “Drøft kirkehistoriefagets egenart i forhold til aktuelle hjelpevitenskaper. Belys
gjennom eksempler” (given topic)
Supervisor: Professor Torstein Jørgensen (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Holger Bernt Hansen (University of Copenhagen),
Professor Lisbet Holtedahl (University of Tromsø), Professor Odd Magne Bakke
(MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Gustav Steensland
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Title: “Cultivation of Christian leadership in a Confucian context: A study of the
preparations of pastors for ministry in Taiwan Lutheran Church 1948-1987” (School
of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 4)
Trial lectures: “Organizational decision-making: some reflections regarding the
evacuation of NMS missionaries from China 1949-1951” (topic of own choice), and
“Theological education as academic training and pastoral formation” (given topic)
Supervisor: Professor Jan-Martin Berentsen (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
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Doctoral committee: Professor Thomas Yu (China Lutheran Seminary, Hsinchu,
Taiwan), Professor Harald Hegstad (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo),
Professor Torstein Jørgensen (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
2006
Sigmund Edland
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Title: “Evangelists or envoys? The role of British missionaries at turning points in
Malagasy political history, 1820-1840. Documentary and analysis” (School of Mission
and Theology Dissertation Series, 3)
Trial lectures: “Teologisk uenighet i norsk-amerikanske kyrkjer skaper vansker for
misjonsarbeidet på Madagaskar” (topic of own choice), and “Drøft forskjellige
teoretiske tilnærminger til religionsskifteprosesser i Afrika” (given topic)
Supervisor: Professor Torstein Jørgensen (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Holger Bernt Hansen (University of Copenhagen),
Professor Jeanne Dina (University of Toliara), Professor Odd Magne Bakke (MHS
School of Mission and Theology)
Hans Austnaberg
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Title: “Shepherds and demons: A study of exorcism as practiced and understood by
shepherds in the Malagasy Lutheran Church” (School of Mission and Theology
Dissertation Series, 2)
Trial lectures: “Baptism in the African Initiated Churches in the light of Andrew
Walls’ ‘indigenizing’ and ‘pilgrim’ principles” (topic of own choice), and “Bruk av
samfunnsvitskapar som komplementære vitskapar I missiologien: Muligheter og
begrensninger” (given topic)
Supervisor: Professor Jan-Martin Berentsen (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Eila Helander (University of Helsinki), Professor
Tormod Engelsviken (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo), Professor Øyvind
Dahl (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Arne K. Redse
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Title: “‘By grace alone’ in contexts of ‘self-cultivation’: An attempt at contextualizing
the Lutheran doctrine of justification to Chinese contexts as influenced by New
Confucianism” (School of Mission and Theology Dissertation Series, 1)
Trial lecture: “Epistemological basis in interfaith dialogues – an often neglected
issue?” (topic of own choice), and “Freedom of religion, religious tolerance and the
future of Christian mission in light of Samuel P. Huntington's thesis on the Clash of
Civilisations and the Remaking of the World Order” (given topic)
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Supervisor: Professor Jan-Martin Berentsen (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
Doctoral committee: Professor Peter King Hung Lee (Lutheran Theological Seminary,
Hong Kong), Professor Viggo Mortensen (University of Aarhus), Professor Knut
Alfsvåg (MHS School of Mission and Theology)
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