Church and Culture Programme

for English Speaking Guest Students 16 August to 17 December 2010

Every second Autumn term since 1990 the Faculty of Theology has arranged its Church and Culture Programme for English Speaking Guest Students, emphasising that not least students from Third World Countries, who have often been sponsored by Danish Churches and NGO's, are welcomed. The Programme has had participants from a great number of countries in Africa e.g. Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania and Madagascar, Asia, e.g. China, India, Malaysia and Mongolia and USA and Europe.

The theme for this course will be: Protestant Christianity and Secularism in Denmark and Europe Today.
The subjective turn, where each individual must first of all set his or her own agenda, deciding what is right for him or her, seem to have conquered Europe - and in various ways other parts of the world as well.

In the programme the first intensive course in the last two weeks of August 2010 will deal with the Canadian social philosopher Charles Taylor's Theories on Authenticity and the Secular Age

During the term from September to December three parallel courses will be conducted on Religion and Secularism in Denmark, and on the contributions by two outstanding Danish theologians in the 19th Century: N.F. S. Grundtvig and Søren Kierkegaard. To this will be added a seminar on Martin Luther's understanding of the Freedom of the Christian.

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