Marion Grau
Professor
- Systematic Theology, Ecumenism, and Missiology
- Marion.Grau@mf.no
- Office: 332
- Phone number: 22590554
Professional competence areas:
- Constructive Theology
- Systematic Theology
- Missiology and Mission Studies
I am a theologian working with the resources of ecumenical Christian traditions. My research interests have been focused on questions of salvation, liberation, and transformation in a variety of ways: economic structures and metaphors of salvation, missionary movements in the tension between colonial and indigenous theologies, and a postcolonial approach to hermeneutics.
Current research projects include a study of pilgrimage and identity reconstruction in contemporary Norway and an exploration of petroleum culture, climate change and theology in the context of Northern and Arctic landscapes. My work brings together different methodologies such as historical textual study, biblical studies, literary theory, postcolonial theory, ethnography, cultural studies, and theories of gender, race, and class.
I work using a constructive theological method which focuses on engaging the roots of Christian and other religious traditions, and rereads these traditions critically with the help of several interdisciplinary methods.
Selected publications
- Grau, M. (2021). Pondering theological metaphoricity in Devin Singh’s divine currency and beyond, Critical Research on Religion (CRR) s. 94 - 97. Critical Research on Religion (CRR). ISBN: 2050-3032
- Grau, M. (2020). Affective Communitas and sacred geography : mapping place and movement in Norwegian pilgrimage, Ritual and democracy : protests, publics and performances , s. 67 - 92. Equinox Publishing. ISBN: 9781781799758
- Grau, M. (2020). Methodological themes and patterns in constructive theologies, What is constructive theology? : histories, methodologies, and perspectives, s. 53 - 73. Bloomsbury T&T Clark. ISBN: 9780567695154
- Grau, M. (2019). Flisen og bjelken i øyet : noen tanker om arvesynd og klimakrise, Ung Teologi s. 16 - 23. Ung Teologi. ISBN: 0333-340X
- Grau, M. (2019). Ethnozentrische Fiktionen und aufstrebender Faschismus : eine theologische Kritik, Identitäre Versuchungen : Identitetsverhandlungen zwischen Emanzipation und Herrschaft = Identitary Temptations : Identity Negotiations between Emancipation and Hegemony : Dokumentation des 5. Workshops "Befreiende kontextuelle Theologien" (Löwen, 25.-28. Oktober 2018), s. 194 - 205. ISBN: 9783958862951
- Grau, M. (2019). Political hagiographies sainthood, ethnocentrism, and the fallacies of identity, Louvain Studies s. 265 - 287. Louvain Studies. ISBN: 0024-6964
- Grau, M. (2018). Aspekte einer Postkolonialen Theologischen Hermenuetik für die Missionswissenschaft, Theologie und Postkolonialismus : Ansätze - Herausforderungen - Perspektiven, s. 118 - 138. Verlag Friedrich Pustet. ISBN: 9783791730073
- Grau, M. (2018). Postcolonial Contributions to Intercultural Theologies and Interreligious Relations, Shifting Locations and Reshaping Methods : Methodological Challenges Arising from New Fields of Research in Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies, s. 37 - 52. LIT Verlag. ISBN: 9783643910226
- Grau, M. (2018). The revelations of global climate change : a petro-eschatology, Eschatology as imagining the end - Faith between hope and despair, s. 45 - 60. Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-48136-7
- Grau, M. (2018). From Refiner's Fire to Refinery Fires : Reflections on the Combustive Element of Fire, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature : the Elements, s. 159 - 171. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 9781350046825
- Grau, M. (2018). Bonifatius, Christus und die Axt am Baum. Ein Beitrag zur Soteriologie in postkolonialer Perspektive, Postkoloniale Theologien II : Perspektiven aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, s. 242 - 255. W. Kohlhammer GmbH. ISBN: 978-3-17-032571-5
- Carbine, R. P. & Compier, D. & Farley, W. & Grau, M. & Jensen, D. H. & Fulkerson, M. M. (2016). Ways of World-Making, Awake to the Moment : an introduction to theology, s. 105 - 173. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN: 9780664261887
- Grau, M. (2016). Considering Hermeneutics, Method, and Cultural Diversity in Anglican and Episcopal Contexts, The Oxford Handbook of Anglican Studies, s. 176 - 189. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-921856-1
- Grau, M. (2015). Interpreting Power: Rethinking the Relationship between Mythos and Logos as Prolegomena to an Intercultural Theological Hermeneutics, Renegotiating Power, Theology, and Politics, s. 129 - 149. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-1-137-54865-8
Latest scientific publications
- Grau, M. (2021). Pondering theological metaphoricity in Devin Singh’s divine currency and beyond, Critical Research on Religion (CRR) s. 94 - 97. Critical Research on Religion (CRR). ISBN: 2050-3032
- Grau, M. (2020). Affective Communitas and sacred geography : mapping place and movement in Norwegian pilgrimage, Ritual and democracy : protests, publics and performances , s. 67 - 92. Equinox Publishing. ISBN: 9781781799758
- Grau, M. (2020). Methodological themes and patterns in constructive theologies, What is constructive theology? : histories, methodologies, and perspectives, s. 53 - 73. Bloomsbury T&T Clark. ISBN: 9780567695154
- Grau, M. (2019). Flisen og bjelken i øyet : noen tanker om arvesynd og klimakrise, Ung Teologi s. 16 - 23. Ung Teologi. ISBN: 0333-340X
- Grau, M. (2019). Ethnozentrische Fiktionen und aufstrebender Faschismus : eine theologische Kritik, Identitäre Versuchungen : Identitetsverhandlungen zwischen Emanzipation und Herrschaft = Identitary Temptations : Identity Negotiations between Emancipation and Hegemony : Dokumentation des 5. Workshops "Befreiende kontextuelle Theologien" (Löwen, 25.-28. Oktober 2018), s. 194 - 205. ISBN: 9783958862951
- Grau, M. (2019). Political hagiographies sainthood, ethnocentrism, and the fallacies of identity, Louvain Studies s. 265 - 287. Louvain Studies. ISBN: 0024-6964
- Grau, M. (2018). Aspekte einer Postkolonialen Theologischen Hermenuetik für die Missionswissenschaft, Theologie und Postkolonialismus : Ansätze - Herausforderungen - Perspektiven, s. 118 - 138. Verlag Friedrich Pustet. ISBN: 9783791730073
- Grau, M. (2018). Postcolonial Contributions to Intercultural Theologies and Interreligious Relations, Shifting Locations and Reshaping Methods : Methodological Challenges Arising from New Fields of Research in Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies, s. 37 - 52. LIT Verlag. ISBN: 9783643910226
- Grau, M. (2018). The revelations of global climate change : a petro-eschatology, Eschatology as imagining the end - Faith between hope and despair, s. 45 - 60. Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-48136-7
- Grau, M. (2018). From Refiner's Fire to Refinery Fires : Reflections on the Combustive Element of Fire, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature : the Elements, s. 159 - 171. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 9781350046825
Education and practice
1997 - Erstes Staatsexamen Ev. Theologie und Englisch, Universität Tübingen
2001 - Ph.D. Theological and Religious Studies, Drew University, USA
2001 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Theology, CDSP/Graduate Theological Union, USA
2006 - 2015 Associate Professor of Theology, CDSP/Graduate Theological Union, USA
2015 - Professor, Systematisk teologi og missiologi, Det teologiske Menighetsfakultetet
Voluntary position
2015 - Editorial committee Global Christianity Studies
2015 - Editorial committee Norsk missiologisk tidsskrift
2014 - Co-chair, AAR Group Bible, Theology, and Postmodernity
1997 - Member, American Academy of Religion
1997 - Member, Society of Biblical Literature
2001 - Member, Society of Anglican and Lutheran, Theology
0 - Member, Constructive Theology Group
0 - Member, Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity
0 - Member, The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies - ESITIS
0 - Member, European Society for Women in Theology and Religion – ESWTR
0 - Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Religionsphilosophie
2012 - Member of the Appointments and Review Committee advising the Academic Dean of the Graduate Theological Union
2009 - Area Convenor of the Systematic and Philosophical Theology Doctoral Area, Graduate Theological Union, Fall Spring
2009 - 2015 CDSP Representative on the GTU Li