Niels Henrik Gregersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3434730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niels Henrik Gregersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niels Henrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregersen |
| SIGNATURE | GREGERSEN N H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4389-895X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecology in Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Resonance
This article discusses Hartmut Rosa's sociological theory of resonance with special emphasis on religion and ecology. In Rosa, resonance experiences refer to (always) participatory and (normally) enlivening world relations. I argue that Rosa's resonance theory is multi‐pronged and covers at least three interconnected levels. (1) At the phenomenological level, Rosa points to ever‐fleeting experiences of resonance and more long‐lived axes of resona…
Resonance in Theology – Theology in Resonance
Wondering, Intervening, Being Enmeshed
This article presents the distinction between Ecology 1, Ecology 2, and Ecology 3 by articulating typical human ways of relating to the more‐than‐human world. The first ecology views nature as a non‐human alterity, perceived as wild and dangerous but also as majestic and potentially enchanted. The second ecology turns to humanly cultivated nature such as agricultural landscapes, gardens, and cities, all using technological interventions. The thir…
Meaning in Anthropocene Life
Featuring Professors Tatjana Schnell and Jan-Olav Henriksen (Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway), “Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene: A Dialogue Between Psychology and Theology;” Lecturer Bethany Sollereder, “A Theology of Inevitable Climate Change” (Edinburgh University, Great Britain); PhD student Steen Hjul Lybke, “Attunement and the Sense of Significance in Dianthropocene Life” (Copenhagen Centre for Scienc…
Theology and the More‐Than‐Human World
Featuring Niels Henrik Gregersen, “Wondering, Intervening, Being Enmeshed: Eco‐Theology in Light of Ecology 1, Ecology 2, and Ecology 3;” Per Torp Sangild and Pui Him Ip, “A Spiritual Dimension of Human‐Animal Relations?;” Emil Børty Nielsen, “Playing God with animals? The Meaning of Animals in a More Than Human World;” Tobias Anker Stripp, “Lights and Landscapes: More‐Than‐Human Nature in Near‐Death Experiences as Reconciliation in a Time of Eco…
Bodies Inhabiting the World
Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home offers a multidimensional investigation of how houses, bodies, communities and the whole universe may be conceived and refigured as places where we belong—where we are at home in God’s creation. In this way, revisiting the tradition of Scandinavian creation theology provides profound resources to make theological affirmations of God’s omnipresence in the human co…
Resonant selves in ethical and theological perspective
Absorbing insights from secular discourses on personhood, theology can provide added perspectives on human identity. (1) An attributive view of personal dignity based on divine and social recognition encompasses both capacity‐oriented and relation‐centred views of personhood. (2) Gregory of Nyssa shows Patristic resources for multifaceted ecological self in some contrast to the inner‐Trinitarian idea of ecclesial persons in John D. Zizioulas. (3)…
Body politics
This article explores Paul's use of first-person plural forms in Galatians (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(4)(5)(6)(7).Proponents of the 'Sonderweg perspective' and of 'the radical new perspective on Paul' argue that Paul uses these forms as a rhetorical device.He seeks to identify himself with his non-Jewish audience without implying that he himself nor his fellow Jews share in 'our' (i.e., non-Jewish) experiences.In opposition to this…
The corona crisis unmasks prevailing social ideologies
Resilient selves
This essay contrasts two visions of selfhood: the buffered, autonomous self, and the flexible, resonant self. The autonomous self, while robustly assertive and active, seeks to insulate itself from threats, thereby robbing it of vital connections to other selves and to nature. The resonant self, in contrast, risks more by standing in fluid relationships of resonance and dissonance with its social and natural environments. While the two stand in t…
Resonance, Risk, and Religion
In this article, we offer an interdisciplinary conversation between theology and sociology, critically assessing the concept of resonance in the theologian Gerd Theißen and the sociologist Hartmut Rosa. While the discipline of sociology has often been framed on the assumption that religions are merely social constructions of reality, both Theißen and Rosa take religious resonance experiences to exemplify a responsive attitude to reality. We begin…
Risk and Resonance
Risk and Resonance
From oeconomia to Nordic Welfare Societies
In the Nordic countries, Martin Luther’s doctrine of the three estates ( ecclesia, oeconomia, politia) has significantly shaped social imaginaries about what makes a society workable and proficient for its citizens. While already Luther used the idea of the household ( oeconomia) as a third zone between civil government ( politia) and church ( ecclesia), Danish-Norwegian receptions of Luther’s concept of oeconomia emphasized the mutual obligation…
Positive Loss and Tragic Memory
Theologies of disaster have to recognize exceptional disasters in the framework of a general human exposure to vulnerability, while engaging in the formation of human and religious resilience. Resilience is about “bouncing back and forward” in and through precautionary and self‐adaptive responses to disasters. Drawing up a distinction between personal tragedies and socially shared disasters, the basic argument is that the reconnection of disrupte…
Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age
K.E. Løgstrup and Scandinavian Creation Theology
No Access2. K.E. Løgstrup and Scandinavian Creation TheologyProf. Niels Henrik GregersenProf. Niels Henrik GregersenNiels Henrik Gregersen is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the founder and director of the Løgstrup Archives at Aarhus University 1995–2000, and he specializes in contemporary Protestant theology and the field of science-and-religion. His latest books include Incarnation: On the Scope…
Deep incarnation
This article presents in broad outline the theological concept of deep incarnation and brings it into dialogue with correlative ideas of deep history and deep sociality. It will be argued that neither Christology, nor evolution, can be properly understood from a chronocentric perspective. Evolution is not only about development but also about the exploration of ecospace. Likewise, a contemporary Christology should explicate incarnation as a divin…
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
This article, written for the retirement symposium for the James I. McCord Professor J. Wentzel van Huyssteen at Princeton Theological Seminary (“Evolutionary Science and Theological Identity,” November 18–19, 2014), analyzes the changing contexts and developments of van Huyssteen’s interdisciplinary journeys in the philosophy of science, epistemology, and science and religion. The topics discussed are biblical hermeneutics, his relation to Wolfh…
Naturalism in the Mirror of Religion
This essay explores three ways for speaking of God in the context of current discussions of naturalism within philosophy of religion and theology. The first is the expressivist theism proposed by the philosopher of mind Owen Flanagan\ the second is a ground-of-being theism laid out in detail by the analytical philosopher Mark Johnston. While both these proposals situate concepts of God within the framework of naturalism as usually defined, the th…
Varieties of Naturalism and Religious Reflection
Michael Hanby. No God, No Science? Theology, Cosmology, Biology
Beyond Secularist Supersessionism
Influential sociologists such as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens are well known for contrasting a ‘pre-modern’ surrender to divine fate, a ‘modern’ will to control, and a ‘late-modern’ risk-awareness. This grand narrative, however, is both simplistic and misleading. For risks are often hybrids of natural threats and cultural choices. Accordingly, late-modern societies continue to concern themselves with external dangers (such as tsunamis) while r…
Trial and Temptation
K.E. Løgstrups tanker tangeret
In his philosophical dissertation that can be translated as K.E. Løgstrup. A Modern Prophet (1992), Hans Hauge proposed the thesis that the philosophy of Løgstrup, from first to last, tales leave of any epistemological foundation. In this critical evaluation, the author supports the interpretation by Hauge that Løgstrup's appeal to ontology in fact refers to ever changing life situations with each of their own characteristics. However, one has to…
Hvor universelt er det universelle i kristendommen
En præsentation of kritik af Svend Andersens disputats.The highlight of the dissertation, Sprog og Skabelse, is the reevaluation of the neglected phenomenologist Hans Lipps (1889-1941), who is seen by Andersen to be the phenomenological counterpart to the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein, and even in several aspects as superior to it. In a valuable account of Løgstrup's philosophy of language, Andersen furthermore interprets the philosophy of…
Deep incarnation
This article presents in broad outline the theological concept of deep incarnation and brings it into dialogue with correlative ideas of deep history and deep sociality. It will be argued that neither Christology, nor evolution, can be properly understood from a chronocentric perspective. Evolution is not only about development but also about the exploration of ecospace. Likewise, a contemporary Christology should explicate incarnation as a divin…
Hvor universelt er det universelle i kristendommen
En præsentation of kritik af Svend Andersens disputats.The highlight of the dissertation, Sprog og Skabelse, is the reevaluation of the neglected phenomenologist Hans Lipps (1889-1941), who is seen by Andersen to be the phenomenological counterpart to the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein, and even in several aspects as superior to it. In a valuable account of Løgstrup's philosophy of language, Andersen furthermore interprets the philosophy of…
K.E. Løgstrups tanker tangeret
In his philosophical dissertation that can be translated as K.E. Løgstrup. A Modern Prophet (1992), Hans Hauge proposed the thesis that the philosophy of Løgstrup, from first to last, tales leave of any epistemological foundation. In this critical evaluation, the author supports the interpretation by Hauge that Løgstrup's appeal to ontology in fact refers to ever changing life situations with each of their own characteristics. However, one has to…
Trial and Temptation
Beyond Secularist Supersessionism
Influential sociologists such as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens are well known for contrasting a ‘pre-modern’ surrender to divine fate, a ‘modern’ will to control, and a ‘late-modern’ risk-awareness. This grand narrative, however, is both simplistic and misleading. For risks are often hybrids of natural threats and cultural choices. Accordingly, late-modern societies continue to concern themselves with external dangers (such as tsunamis) while r…
Naturalism in the Mirror of Religion
This essay explores three ways for speaking of God in the context of current discussions of naturalism within philosophy of religion and theology. The first is the expressivist theism proposed by the philosopher of mind Owen Flanagan\ the second is a ground-of-being theism laid out in detail by the analytical philosopher Mark Johnston. While both these proposals situate concepts of God within the framework of naturalism as usually defined, the th…
Varieties of Naturalism and Religious Reflection
Michael Hanby. No God, No Science? Theology, Cosmology, Biology
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
This article, written for the retirement symposium for the James I. McCord Professor J. Wentzel van Huyssteen at Princeton Theological Seminary (“Evolutionary Science and Theological Identity,” November 18–19, 2014), analyzes the changing contexts and developments of van Huyssteen’s interdisciplinary journeys in the philosophy of science, epistemology, and science and religion. The topics discussed are biblical hermeneutics, his relation to Wolfh…
Deep incarnation
This article presents in broad outline the theological concept of deep incarnation and brings it into dialogue with correlative ideas of deep history and deep sociality. It will be argued that neither Christology, nor evolution, can be properly understood from a chronocentric perspective. Evolution is not only about development but also about the exploration of ecospace. Likewise, a contemporary Christology should explicate incarnation as a divin…
Positive Loss and Tragic Memory
Theologies of disaster have to recognize exceptional disasters in the framework of a general human exposure to vulnerability, while engaging in the formation of human and religious resilience. Resilience is about “bouncing back and forward” in and through precautionary and self‐adaptive responses to disasters. Drawing up a distinction between personal tragedies and socially shared disasters, the basic argument is that the reconnection of disrupte…
Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age
K.E. Løgstrup and Scandinavian Creation Theology
No Access2. K.E. Løgstrup and Scandinavian Creation TheologyProf. Niels Henrik GregersenProf. Niels Henrik GregersenNiels Henrik Gregersen is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the founder and director of the Løgstrup Archives at Aarhus University 1995–2000, and he specializes in contemporary Protestant theology and the field of science-and-religion. His latest books include Incarnation: On the Scope…
Resonance, Risk, and Religion
In this article, we offer an interdisciplinary conversation between theology and sociology, critically assessing the concept of resonance in the theologian Gerd Theißen and the sociologist Hartmut Rosa. While the discipline of sociology has often been framed on the assumption that religions are merely social constructions of reality, both Theißen and Rosa take religious resonance experiences to exemplify a responsive attitude to reality. We begin…
Risk and Resonance
Risk and Resonance
From oeconomia to Nordic Welfare Societies
In the Nordic countries, Martin Luther’s doctrine of the three estates ( ecclesia, oeconomia, politia) has significantly shaped social imaginaries about what makes a society workable and proficient for its citizens. While already Luther used the idea of the household ( oeconomia) as a third zone between civil government ( politia) and church ( ecclesia), Danish-Norwegian receptions of Luther’s concept of oeconomia emphasized the mutual obligation…
The corona crisis unmasks prevailing social ideologies
Resilient selves
This essay contrasts two visions of selfhood: the buffered, autonomous self, and the flexible, resonant self. The autonomous self, while robustly assertive and active, seeks to insulate itself from threats, thereby robbing it of vital connections to other selves and to nature. The resonant self, in contrast, risks more by standing in fluid relationships of resonance and dissonance with its social and natural environments. While the two stand in t…
Resonant selves in ethical and theological perspective
Absorbing insights from secular discourses on personhood, theology can provide added perspectives on human identity. (1) An attributive view of personal dignity based on divine and social recognition encompasses both capacity‐oriented and relation‐centred views of personhood. (2) Gregory of Nyssa shows Patristic resources for multifaceted ecological self in some contrast to the inner‐Trinitarian idea of ecclesial persons in John D. Zizioulas. (3)…
Body politics
This article explores Paul's use of first-person plural forms in Galatians (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(4)(5)(6)(7).Proponents of the 'Sonderweg perspective' and of 'the radical new perspective on Paul' argue that Paul uses these forms as a rhetorical device.He seeks to identify himself with his non-Jewish audience without implying that he himself nor his fellow Jews share in 'our' (i.e., non-Jewish) experiences.In opposition to this…
Bodies Inhabiting the World
Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home offers a multidimensional investigation of how houses, bodies, communities and the whole universe may be conceived and refigured as places where we belong—where we are at home in God’s creation. In this way, revisiting the tradition of Scandinavian creation theology provides profound resources to make theological affirmations of God’s omnipresence in the human co…
Wondering, Intervening, Being Enmeshed
This article presents the distinction between Ecology 1, Ecology 2, and Ecology 3 by articulating typical human ways of relating to the more‐than‐human world. The first ecology views nature as a non‐human alterity, perceived as wild and dangerous but also as majestic and potentially enchanted. The second ecology turns to humanly cultivated nature such as agricultural landscapes, gardens, and cities, all using technological interventions. The thir…
Meaning in Anthropocene Life
Featuring Professors Tatjana Schnell and Jan-Olav Henriksen (Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway), “Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene: A Dialogue Between Psychology and Theology;” Lecturer Bethany Sollereder, “A Theology of Inevitable Climate Change” (Edinburgh University, Great Britain); PhD student Steen Hjul Lybke, “Attunement and the Sense of Significance in Dianthropocene Life” (Copenhagen Centre for Scienc…
Theology and the More‐Than‐Human World
Featuring Niels Henrik Gregersen, “Wondering, Intervening, Being Enmeshed: Eco‐Theology in Light of Ecology 1, Ecology 2, and Ecology 3;” Per Torp Sangild and Pui Him Ip, “A Spiritual Dimension of Human‐Animal Relations?;” Emil Børty Nielsen, “Playing God with animals? The Meaning of Animals in a More Than Human World;” Tobias Anker Stripp, “Lights and Landscapes: More‐Than‐Human Nature in Near‐Death Experiences as Reconciliation in a Time of Eco…
Ecology in Hartmut Rosa's Theory of Resonance
This article discusses Hartmut Rosa's sociological theory of resonance with special emphasis on religion and ecology. In Rosa, resonance experiences refer to (always) participatory and (normally) enlivening world relations. I argue that Rosa's resonance theory is multi‐pronged and covers at least three interconnected levels. (1) At the phenomenological level, Rosa points to ever‐fleeting experiences of resonance and more long‐lived axes of resona…
Resonance in Theology – Theology in Resonance
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