Risto Saarinen#

Membership Number:4040
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Elected:2015
Main Country of Residence:FINLAND
Homepage(s):http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ristosaarinen




Present and Previous Positions

  • 2001 - present Professor of Ecumenics, University of Helsinki
  • 2011 - 2014 Visiting Professor in Ecumenics, KU Leuven
  • 1994 - 1999 Research Professor of Ecumenics, Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg
  • Acting Professor of Social Ethics, University of Helsinki, 1992-93, 1999-2001

Fields of Scholarship
  • Systematic theology
  • Ecumenics
  • History of philosophy

Honours and Awards
  • 2014 - 2019 Director of the Centre of Excellence "Reason and Religious Recognition", Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki
  • World Congress of Luther Reserch, Chair of the Organising Committee 2010-2012 (Helsinki 2012 Congress)
  • Chair of Section Theology and Religious Studies, Finnish Academy of Arts and Letters, 2008-2013 (member since 1999, secretary 2003-2008)
  • 2005 - 2010 Honorary Professor, University of Aarhus
  • Societas Oecumenica, Chair of the Organising Committee for 1996 Strasbourg Plenary (and again for 2016 Helsinki Plenary)
  • 1990 Dissertation Award, Finnish Academy of Arts and Letters

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