Bo Kristian Holm

Cand. theol. PhD

  • Jens Chr. Skous Vej 3, 1453, 428

    8000 Aarhus C

    Denmark

1995 …2025

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Research

My primary research area is Lutheran theology in the 16th, 20th and 21st centuries. Studies on Luther's theology of gift has opened my interests towards the relationship between theology and social and cultural development, and towards the relationship to other confessions. In recent years, I have focused on the relationship between doctrine and consolation in the reformers Luther and Melanchthon and on the inherent social imaginaries in theology and their impact on practice.

Commissioned

Member of the Theological Working Group for The Council on International Relations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark.

Member of the Joint Working Group between the World Council of Churches and the Roman Catholic Church.

Member of the Baptism Commission for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark.

Member of the Theological Working Group behind the Presidency of the Lutheran World Federation.

Cooperation and dissemination

Head of the interdisciplinary centre: LUMEN - Center for the Study of Lutheran Theology and Confessional Societies.

Vice-president for Luther-Akademie Sondershausen-Ratzeburg e.V.

Member for the board: TARF (Theologischer Arbeitskreis für reformationsgeschichtliche Forschung).

Chair of the local committee for 15. International Congres for Luther Research

Teaching

Teaches dogmatics at both bachelor and master level. 

Keywords

  • Reformation
  • Martin Luther
  • Philipp Melanchthon
  • Church history
  • The Reformation
  • Dogma and creed
  • Communicatio idiomatum
  • Function of Doctrine
  • Finnish Lutherresearch
  • Lutheran Theology
  • Christology and soteriology
  • Justification and reciprocity
  • Theology and gift economy
  • Doctrine of Trinity
  • History of the reception of the Bible
  • Paul and Luther
  • 20th century
  • Luther Renaissance
  • Radical Orthodoxy
  • Ethics
  • Religion and politics
  • God
  • Evil
  • Theology and social anthropology
  • Forgiveness
  • Brotherly love
  • Eros and agape
  • Faith and works
  • Pastoral care
  • Pastoral care and Lutheran Theology
  • Ecumenical work
  • Liturgy

Areas of expertise

  • Dogmatics
  • Lutheran theology
  • The Reformation
  • Economy of the Gift
  • Martin Luther

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