Engaging Werner G. Jeanrond's Theological Thinking

Ulrich Schmiedel is Senior Lecturer in Theology, Politics and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also Co-Director of Edinburgh's Centre for Theology and Public Issues and has written widely on public and political theology.Ola Sigurdson is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Society of Letters, History and Antiquities. He has published more than thirty books in Swedish and English on the intersection of philosophy, theology and the arts.Jayne Svenungsson is Professor of Systematic Theology at Lund University, Sweden. Currently director of the multidisciplinary research program At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present (endoftheworld.lu.se), she has published extensively on political theology and philosophy of history.

• 1. ‘If you want to go there, you cannot start here’: Introducing the Starting Points of Werner G. Jeanrond’s Theological ThinkingUlrich Schmiedel (Lund University, Sweded), Ola Sigurdson (University of Oslo, Norway), and Jayne Svenungsson (Lund University, Sweden)I. Interpretations2. From Where Do You Read?Björn Vikström (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)3. The Importance of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s HermeneuticsDavid Jasper (University of Glasgow, UK)4. Exploring Theology, Spirituality, and Praxis: A Journey of Critical and Self-Critical ReflectionGerard J. Ryan, S.J. (Loyola University, USA)5. Is Home a Starting Point or an End Point? Towards a Hermeneutics of DwellingOla Sigurdson (University of Oslo, Norway)6. On Heimat: Probing the Hope for Home as a Starting Point for Political TheologyUlrich Schmiedel (Lund University, Sweden)7. Expanding the circle of virtues: Consequences of a Different Theological Starting Point Jan-Olav Henriksen (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)8. Learning to Love in the AnthropoceneMarius Timmann Mjaaland (University of Oslo, Norway)9. Starting at the End: Alterity and Relationality in Christian EschatologyJames M. Matarazzo, Jr. (Loyola University, USA)II. Interventions10. Beginning Anew, or Dreaming of ‘a Europe to Come’Jayne Svenungsson (Lund University, Sweden)11. A Metacritique of Love: Theology, Politics and Psychoanalysis Isabella Guanzini (Catholic Private University, Austria)12. Prayer and Death: Jon Fosse Meets Werner Jeanrond Kari Veiteberg (Church of Norway)13. ‘Institutions Don’t Love’: Werner Jeanrond and Hannah Arendt’s Conflicting Starting Points for a Theory of Collective LifeAlana Vincent (Umeå University, Sweden)14. The Sami and the Church of Sweden: What it Takes to Reach a New Starting PointAntje Jackelén (Lund University, Sweden)15. Seeking a Starting Point When There is None to be Found: Interreligious Relations after October 7, 2023Jakob Wirén (Lund University, Sweden)16. The Starting Point which Disappeared: On Salvation, Knowledge, and HopeMichael Seewald (University of Münster, Germany)17. Reasons (Not) to Hope? An Essay in Critical ElpidologySturla J. Stålsett (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)III. Inspirations18. In the Beginning Was the Word: Is Theology a Science?Björn Larsson (Lund University, Sweden)19. Two Women in Conversation: The Starting-Point for the Book of Margery KempeSantha Bhattacharji (Blackfriars Hall, UK)20. Transatlantic Impulses: Christianity, Dissidence, and Feminism in the Life and Work of Aasta HansteenAud V. Tønnessen (University of Oslo, Norway)21. Media Philosophy and the Question of the Starting PointAllan Burnett (Lund University, Sweden)22. Out in Soul: Towards a Hermeneutics of Faith Alongside the Work of Bob DylanKnut Wenzel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany)23. ‘Hear, O Israel!’: Rehearing the ShemaBrian Klug (Campion Hall, UK)24. Everything Starts with Listening: Theological Epistemology and Dialogical Life OrientationClaudia Welz (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Werner Jeanrond has left an indelible mark on Christian hermeneutics, and on the minds of his friends and students. This volume captures the ways in which his thought has been generative for creative theological reflection on such various topics from dialogue to feminism, and from hope to love.