PhD., cand. theol.

Project: "Biblical text, reading and speaking."

Paul Ricoeur’s biblical hermeneutics as a homiletic resource.

In Ricoeur's biblical hermeneutics, the  polyphonic character of the diverse literary genres (narratives, hymns, prophecy, wisdom literature etc.) plays an essential role in reformulating a biblical understanding of revelation where the responsive self is considered correspondingly polyphonic (praising, lamenting, confessing, obeying etc.). This leads to a dialogical concept of revelation.

Homiletics works in the area between the interpretation of the biblical text and the production of a new "text" or speech.

My interest is the incentive deriving from this understanding of revelation to the elaboration of preaching’s form and content.

How can the rhetorical construction of the sermon be inspired by the biblical text’s "revelatory" performing of the relationship or dialogue between God and human being? 

Cooperative relations

• Center for the Study of the Bible in Theology and Culture, Biblical Studies Section, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, which undertakes research in the history of biblical reception.
• Nordic Network for Religion and Literature (in Danish)
• International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture. – an international conference is planned to be held (jointly with this society) at the Faculty of Theology in Aarhus in 2008. The principal contributions from the conference will be published individually under its own name or in the journal Literature and Theology. Further details will be announced on the website of the research area Bible and literature – reception and transformation.