Embracing the Ivory Tower and Stained Glass Windows A Festschrift in Honor of Archbishop Antje Jackelén

This book brings together contributions from scholars from Europe and the United States to honor the theological work of Antje Jackelén, the first female Archbishop of the Church of Sweden. In Archbishop Antje Jackelén’s installation homily, she identifies the strength of the Church as a “global network of prayer threads.” This book is an honorary and celebratory volume providing a “global network of prayerful essays” by contributors from a variety of academic disciplines to creatively engage, reflect, and illuminate the theological work of Archbishop Jackelén. Prior to her tenure in the Church of Sweden as Bishop of the Diocese of Lund and now the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Jackelén served as professor of Systematic Theology, Director of the Zygon Center and President of European Society for the Study of Science and Religion (ESSSAT). While each essay intentionally embraces the theological and ministerial work of Jackelén during her academic tenure, they also venture into areas as diverse as climate change, media studies, human uniqueness, hermeneutics, time, ethics, Christian theological tradition and history, traumatology, politics and society. As the first diverse explication of the theological thinking of Archbishop Jackelén by her theological colleagues, this text provides scholars with an expansion of the scope of Archbishop Jackelén’s theological thinking and initiates laity into the impact of Jackelén thinking that combines with grace and precision

1. Time in Eternity and Eternity in Time.- 2. Revisiting the God of the Gaps.- 3. How to Understand Time in Relation to Timeless Divine Action in a Time- Dependent World.- 4. Time as ‘Dance:’ Theological-Philosophical Reflections and Meditations.- 5. Time—A Dimension of Ethics.- 6. Places of Encounter with the Eschata:  Accelerating the Spatial Turn in Eschatology.- 7. A Poetical Proposal: Diversity in Lutheran Traditions.- 8. From Traumatic Disruption to Resilient Creativity: How Hermeneutics, Feminism, and Postmodernism provide grounds for the development of a Trauma Sensitive Theology.- 9. Biocultural Wholes, Partial Perspectives, Path Dependency and the Global Climate Change: What’s Theology Got to Do with it?.- 10. Some Practical and Ethical Challenges posed by Big Data.- 11. Eutonia: The Cross (In)between Science and Theology.- 12. The Study of Symbols as a bridge Between Science and Theology.- 13. An Ontology of Interaction.- 14. Science and Religion being moved by Aesthetics.- 15. Becoming Human:  Weaving Together Genetics and Personhood Reflections on Personhood.- 16. Coincidence of Opposites in the Thought of Nicholas of Cusa and Niels Bohr.- 17. The Early History of the European Conferences on Science and Religion and of ESSSAT.- 18. What Liberates and Limits a Bishop and an Archbishop in Church of Sweden?.

Jennifer Baldwin, PhD, LCPC is Executive and Clinical Director at Grounding Flight Wellness Center and Instructor at Elmhurst College. She holds a doctorate in Systematic Theology with an emphasis in Religion and Science from Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, two Masters degrees in theology and a Masters in Counseling Psychology. She is also the founder, director, and editor of Vertical Exploration Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting research and publication of Aerial Movement Arts.