If you are interested in organizing a lecture on themes relating to the network’s interests, you are welcome to contact us. Below each picture you can click on the name, and you will be redirected to a University page where you can find contact details to that person.

You can also use the form below, if you want to pose a general question concerning lectures and are not sure which person you would like to invite.

(Note that Andreas Nordlander is based in Gothenburg and Lund, and the others in Uppsala.)

Ulf Jonsson

Ulf Jonsson is professor in philosophy of religion at the Newman Institute. Jonsson has written and lectured about many areas that relate to the network’s areas of interests, such as:

• Is it rational to believe in God?
• Fundamental theology: intellectual questions concerning the claims of Christianity.
• Divine action and science, in particular as relating to the theory of dispositionalism.
• The historical Jesus and theology.
• The relationship between faith and reason and science and religion in general.
  
  Ulf Jonsson is the author of the following books:
  
•  Bernard Lonergan’s foundations for knowledge of God and the challenge from antifoundationalism
• Med tanke på Gud: en introduktion till religionsfilosofin
• Habermas, påven och tron: Jürgen Habermas och Joseph Ratzinger om religion och sanning i ett postsekulärt samhälle.
• Med tanke på tron, volym 1: Naturlig teologi
• Gud och andra orsaker: hur en ny teori om orsak och verkan kan förändra vår världsbild
• Med tanke på tron, volym 2: Jesus från Nazareth.

Stefan Lindholm

Stefan Lindholm is a lecturer in systematic theology at Johannelund School of Theology

Lindholm is interested in general questions concerning science and religion, philosophical questions relating to Christian theological themes (such as the trinity and the incarnation) upon which Lindholm reflects with the help of medieval thinkers, both in the Catholic and reformed traditions.

Lindholm also has a special interest in questions concerning Artificial Intelligence, transhumanism, and bio-ethics from a theological and philosophical point of view.

Andreas Nordlander

Andreas Nordlander is a senior lecturer in systematic theology, ethics and philosophy of religion at the University of Gothenburg.

Nordlander has for a long time been interested in issues surrounding science, theology, and worldviews. Nordlander has for instance written on cognitive science and religion and on Augustine’s theology of creation and how it may be a resource in the contemporary science and religion-dialogue. “The Emergence of Soul: Retrieving Augustine’s Potentialism for Contemporary Theological Anthropology.” was published in Modern Theology 2019, vol. 35, nr 1. DOI: 10.1111/moth.12443.

Nordlander is currently Principal Investigator for two research projects:

1. “Natural teleology – The New Science and Religion Dialogue in Light of Self-Organization and Evolutionary Convergence” – a project exploring whether there are any viable notions of teleology, that are applicable to the natural world as revealed by modern science and what the implications are for the science and religion-dialogue.

2. “Ecological Ethics in a European Context: A Comparative Study of Bernard Charbonneau, Hans Jonas, and Erazim Kohák“.

Nordlander has been developing and teaches courses on science and religion at the University of Gothenburg.

Martin Sahlén

Martin Sahlén is docent and researcher in astronomy at the department of physics and astronomy at Uppsala University.

Apart from research and teaching in astronomy, Sahlén also holds a University course exploring scientific, philosophical and theological perspectives on cosmology: “Three Views on Cosmology: Physics, Philosophy and Religion“, is engaged in third-stream activities relating to science and religion, and organizing continuing education courses on science and religion, for instance “Naturvetenskap och kristen tro” at Fjellstedska skolan during the spring of 2025.

Sahlén has written an article in Kosmos – fysikersamfundets tidning with the title “Universums ursprung“. Click on the link to get access to the article.

Christoffer Skogholt

Christoffer Skogholt is a ph d-candidate in philosophy of religion, writing on evolution and philosophical/theological anthropology, by comparing Michael Tomasello’s and Richard Dawkins’s views on evolution and of human nature.

Skogholt has published articles on how to relate science and religion in general, on the relationship between Intelligent Design and Theistic Evolution, and is involved in a collaborative book project on Adam and Eve, writing a chapter on how to interpret the story of the Fall in light of evolution. Skogholt is also engaged in several third-stream activities on science and religion, and teaches University courses on the relationship between science and religion, and has been giving a course on “Biology, Ecology and Theological Anthropology.”

Suggestions for themes for lectures:

1. Creation and Evolution: how do we find a theological integration?

2. Evolution and the Fall.

3. Genesis 1-3 and the creation and evolution-dialogue.

4. Richard Dawkins and Michael Tomasello: contrasting approaches to evolution and human nature.

Use the form below if you would like to discuss possible lectures.