Revd Prof Niels Henrik GregersenRevd Prof Niels Henrik Gregersen

Professor
Copenhagen University

Copenhagen University, Denmark

Biography

Niels Henrik Gregersen (b. 1956) obtained his Ph.D. from Copenhagen University in 1987. He was Research Professor in Theology & Science at Aarhus University, Denmark 2000-2004. Since 2004 Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and 2008-2013 also co-Director for the Centre for Naturalism and Christian Semantics, a centre of excellence funded by the Star Research Foundation of Copenhagen University.
From 1992 to 2003, he has been a leader of the Danish Science-Theology Forum. From 1998 to 2002, he was Vice-President of The European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) and responsible for its publication program. In 2002, he was elected president of The Learned Society, Denmark, and he served as its president in 2002-2003. He is co-founder of ISSR and served 2002-2007 as Executive Committee Member of the Society. 2003-2010 he served as chair-person of The Ecumenical Institute in Strasbourg, France, and as member of the Council of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF).
He is author of five books, and has edited more than a twenty volumes in the fields of contemporary theology, and science & religion. His more recent publications include Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology (Fortress Press, 2015), Information and the Nature of Reality (Cambridge University Press, 2010; Canto Classics 2014), Essays in Naturalism and Christian Semantics (Copenhagen: Copenhagen University, 2010), Theology in an Evolutionary Perspective (Curtea Veche, 2007, in Romanian), The Gift of Grace (Fortress Press, 2005), From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning (Oxford University Press, 2003).
He was associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Science and Religion volumes I-II (MacMillan Reference 2003), Editor in-Chief of Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift [Danish Journal of Theology] 2007-2014, and is founding co-editor of the journal Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences (PTSc) since 2014.

Honoraria Titles


Major Prizes


Religion, Philosophy & History Interests

Christianity-Protestantism

Publications

Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology

Fortress Press 2015

Information and the Nature of Reality

Cambridge University Press; Canto Classics 2014 2010

Essays in Naturalism and Christian Semantics

Copenhagen University 2010

Theology in an Evolutionary Perspective

Curtea Veche 2007

The Gift of Grace

Fortress Press 2005

From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning

Oxford University Press 2003