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Andreas Nordlander is an associate professor in systematic theology, philosophy of religion, and ethics at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at Gothenburg University, Sweden. His postgraduate work was in philosophy and theology at the universities of Cambridge and Lund, from which he holds his doctoral degree. His research has focused on the question of subjectivity/consciousness and nature at the intersection of philosophy and theology, with a particular interest in the philosophy of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Recently, he has been working with a project on the concept of teleology, and the way in which we understand ourselves as human beings within the larger framework of nature—especially in light of evolutionary theory. This project has also branched out to include investigations of ecological ethics, spirituality, and theology.
RCC Project: Ecological Ethics in a European Context: A Comparative Study of Bernard Charbonneau, Hans Jonas, and Erazim Kohák
Selected Publications:
- “Transcendence and Immanence.” In The T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation, edited by Jason Goroncy. London: T&T Clark, forthcoming.
- “Green Purpose: Teleology, Ecological Ethics, and the Recovery of Contemplation.” Studies in Christian Ethics 34, no. 1 (2021): 36–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946820910672.
- “Nature and Human Nature: Evolutionary Reductionism and the Witness of the Mind in Marilynne Robinson.” In Marilynne Robinson and Theology, edited by Håkan Möller and Sigurdson Ola, 49–67. Stockholm: Conference series of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities 105, 2021.
- “The Emergence of Soul: Retrieving Augustine’s Potentialism for Contemporary Theological Anthropology.” Modern Theology 35, no. 1 (2019): 122–137.
- “Religion: The Cognitive Semiotics of the Axial Age.” In Human Liefworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution, edited by David Dunér and Göran Sonesson, 163–190. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
- “The Wonder of Immanence: Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of Creation.” Modern Theology 29, no. 2 (April 2013): 104–123. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12024.