Research: Christian theology

The impact of German Idealism on Christian theology; the investigation of philosophical problems in inter-religious engagement.

My research and publications are in the fields of theological ethics and public theology, focusing through pneumatological, anthropological and ecclesiological lenses on the subjects of social transformation, theology of economics, forgiveness and reconciliation, religion and culture. My work engages also Eastern Orthodox theology (with particular focus on Orthodox liturgical and sacramental ...

Christianity and Asian religions; theology and the arts: theology of religions; philosophy of religion, contemporary theology and religion.

Practical theology, political theology, hermeneutics and the work of Paul Ricoeur.

Faith and social engagement; faith and leadership; religion in public life and policy; Pentecostal and Evangelical approaches to the Bible; literary and cultural criticism of the Bible; Pentecostalism; Pentecostal/Charismatic music and worship.

The textual tradition of the New Testament; Digital editions of early Christian texts; Biblical quotations in Christian authors.

I am an interdisciplinary scholar: trained in ethics and constructive theology with a background in the humanities, particularly literature and music.

Martyrdom, death, suffering, and afterlife in the New Testament and literature of Early Christianity.

Systematic theology, pneumatology, ecclesiology; theology and science; church, society and world; Pentecostal theology; pneumatology; liturgy and ritual. 

Historical Jesus; ethical and cultural Biblical interpretation; sociological and spatial-critical approaches to the NT