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Personal details

Dr. Adonis Vidu

Olimpiadei 7B, ap. 29

410467 Oradea

Romania

 

Telephone: (40) 359 405332

Mobile: (40) 744 274135

 

Qualifications

 

1999 – 2003, University of Nottingham, England, Ph.D., supervised by Prof. Anthony C. Thiselton. Thesis title: “Postliberal Theological Method: A Critical Study of Some Themes with Special Reference to the Relationship between Ontology and Narrative” – see appendix for abstract. Degree awarded October 2003.

1997 – 1998, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, M.Phil. Thesis title: “Post-structuralist Ethics”

1993-1997, Emmanuel Bible Institute, Oradea, Romania, B.A., Theology

1996-1997, University of Oradea, Romania, Certificate of Pedagogy

 

Professional Memberships

Since 2001, member of the Society for the Study of Theology, UK.

Since 2001, member of the Seminar for Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies, Romania

Since 2004, member of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology, USA

Since 2005, founding member, Romanian Association of Religious Studies

Since 2006, member Evangelical Theological Society

 

Career History

2006 – present, Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Baptist Theology

2001 – 2006, Assistant Professor, Emmanuel University, Oradea, Romania

1997 – 2001, Instructor in Theology, Emmanuel University, Oradea, Romania

Experience

Teaching

 

Modules in the following areas: Systematic Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Apologetics, Patristic Theology, Ethics.

 

Research

 

Current research interests and areas of competence

My current research interests are: the relationship between theology and analytical philosophy, postliberal theology, the philosophy of Donald Davidson, current ecclesiology, the relationship between theology and neo-pragmatism, the place of experience in theology.

 

Scholarships held:

· Langham Research Scholarship (1999-2003)

· Overseas Research Students Award, CVCP, UK (1999-2002)

· University of Nottingham Research Scholarship (1999-2002)

· Heymann Scholarship, University of Nottingham (2001)

· Rickards Travelling Scholarship, School of Humanities, University of Nottingham (2002)

· Society for the Study of Theology Conference Bursary, SST Conference Nottingham (2002)

 

Publications:

Books

Postliberal Theological Method: A Critical Study (Paternoster Press, Carlisle, UK, 2005, ISBN 1-84227-395-7)

Forthcoming books/ work in progress

Theology After Neo-Pragmatism (Paternoster, Sept. 2007, ISBN 1842274600)

Aspects of God and the World: A New Philosophical Theology

Book contributions

“The Author as Otherness and Post-structuralist Hermeneutics” in Interpretation of Texts, Sacred and Secular, History and Theory, ed. Pierre Buhler and Tibor Fabiny, Zurich: Pano Verlag, 1999.

 

Articles

‘Lindbeck’s Scheme-Content Distinction: A Critique of the Dualism Between Orders of Language’, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 9, Winter 2004: 110-124. http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/JSRI/html%20version/index/no_9/adonisvidu-articol.htm

‘Bruce D. Marshall and Donald Davidson on Epistemic Justification’ – Heythrop Journal, July, 2006.

‘Bruce D. Marshall and Realism’, Journal for Christian Theological Research, volume 10, 2005. www.luthersem.edu/ctrf/JCTR/Vol10/Vidu.pdf

‘Interpretation and Law: Some Thoughts On Understanding and Application’, Perichoresis 2/2, 2004.

‘Frei and Auerbach on the Meaning of the Gospel Narratives’, in Trinity Journal vol. 26 NS, no. 2, Fall 2005, pp. 245-265.

‘George Lindbeck şi turnura lingvistică a teologiei’ [George Lindbeck and the linguistic turn in theology], Echinox, Cluj-Napoca, 2005.

“For a minimalist Christian realism”, Perichoresis 3/1 (2005).

‘Publicity and Spirit-Wrought Practices: Some Reflections on Meaning and Use’, forthcoming.

‘The Place of Tradition in Theological Construction’, Theology Today 64.2 (July 2007).

‘Habits of the Spirit: Reflections on a Pragmatic Pneumatology’, forthcoming in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (possibly July. 2006)

‘Rorty on Religion and Pragmatism”, forthcoming in The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact, Cluj-Napoca, 2007.

‘Thomas C. Oden’, in the New Dictionary of Theology, revised edition, (IVP) (forthcoming)

‘Alasdair MacIntyre’, in the New Dictionary of Theology, revised edition, IVP, forthcoming.

‘Realism’, in the New Dictionary of Theology, revised edition, IVP, forthcoming.

 

Reviews

 

“Review of Paul Negrut, Revelation, Scripture, Communion: An Interrogation of the Concept of Authority in Orthodox Theology, Oradea, 1997”, in Crestinul Azi [Today’s Christian], 1997.

“Theology, Postmodernism and the Hunger Strike: Review of Don Cupitt, Creation out of Nothing”, in Philosophy and Stuff, 1998.

“Review of Alasdair MacIntyre, Tratat de morala: Dupa virtute [After Virtue: A study in Moral Theory], ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1997” in Krisis 8/1999, pp. 295ff.

“Review of Kevin Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in This Text?” in Trinity Journal 21/ 2 NS, 2000, pp. 209-213.

“Review of Garrett Green, Theology, Hermeneutics and Imagination”. In: Scottish Journal of Theology 55/3 (2002): 369-371.

“Review of Trinity, Time, and Church: Essays in Honour of Robert Jenson, edited by Colin E. Gunton, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000” in Themelios 26/3, 2001, pp. 101-3.

“Review of The Return of God:Theological Perspectives in Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Niels Grnønkjaer, Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1998”, International Journal of Systematic Theology vol. 4, no. 1, March 2002.

“Review of T.J. Gorringe, Salvation, Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2000,” in Themelios 27/3 (2001).

“Review of Elmer Colyer, How To Read T. F. Torrance: Understanding His Trinitarian & Scientific Theology, Downers Grove: IVP, 2001” in Themelios 27/3 (2001).

“Review of Telford Work, Living and Active: Scripture in the Economy of Salvation, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002”, Trinity Journal 24 NS, no. 2/ Fall 2003, p. 303.

“Review of Paul Fiddes, Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity, Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000” Heythrop Journal 44/2 (April 2003).

“Review of Oliver Davies, A Theology of Compassion, London: SCM, 2001” in Heythrop Journal, 43/4, Oct. 2002.

“Review of Gavin Hyman, The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy or Nihilist Textualism? Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001,” in Anvil 20/2 (2003), pp. 146ff.

“Review of Charles Cosgrove, Appealing to Scripture in Moral Debate: Fivel Hermeneutical Rules, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002”, Expository Times 114/8, May 2003.”

“Review of Robert Miner, Vico: Genealogist of Modernity, Note Dame University Press, 2002.” Heythrop Journal 46/4 (Oct 2005).

“Review of Christopher Hill, Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference and Semantic Correspondence, Cambridge University Press, 2002 [Cambridge Studies in Philosophy]”, Heythrop Journal 46/4 (Oct 2005).

“Review of Connor Cunningham, Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing and the Difference of Theology, [Radical Orthodoxy], London: Routledge, 2002” forthcoming in Heythrop Journal.

“Review of William Placher, Jesus the Saviour, Eerdmans, 2001”, forthcoming in Koinonia.

“Review of Dan R. Stiver, Theology After Ricoeur: New Directions in Hermeneutical Theology, Westminster John Knox Press, 2001”, forthcoming in Koinonia.

“Review of Keith Yandell, ed., Faith and Narrative, Oxford USA, 2001”, forthcoming in Koinonia.

“Review of Mark S. Heim, The Depth of Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends, Eerdmans”, Heythrop Journal 46/3 (July 2005), 392-394.

“Review of Hans-Johann Glock, Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 2003” in Heythrop Journal 47/2 (April 2006).

“Review of Kirk Ludwig, Donald Davidson, Cambridge University Press 2003” Heythrop Journal, 47/1, 2006..

“Review of Alister E. McGrath, A Scientific Theology, vol. 3”, Trinity Journal vol. 25 NS, no. 2, Fall 2004, pp. 272-274.

“Review of Alister E. McGrath, A Scientific Theology. Volume 1: Nature”, Heythrop Journal 46/3 (July 2005), 395-397.

“Review of Alister E. McGrath, A Scientific Theology, vol. 2”, Heythrop Journal 46/4 (Oct 2005).

John McDowell, by Maximilian de Gaynesford, forthcoming Heythrop Journal.

Pragmatism and Religion, edited by Stuart Rosenbaum, Heythrop Journal 47/2 (April 2006).

Grammar and Grace: Reformulations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein, edited by Jeffrey Stout and Robert MacSwain, forthcoming Heythrop Journal.

 

Forthcoming Conferences

Conferences

‘The Public Nature of Theological Meaning’, Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Washington 15-17 November, 2006.

‘Rorty on Religion and Pragmatism’, The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact, Cluj-Napoca, Sept 28-29, 2006.

‘Divine Frameworks and Consolation: Response to Prof. Eberhard Herrmann’, Religion After Metaphysics, Biannual European Society for the Philosophy of Religon Conference, Tuebingen, September 1-4, 2006.

“A Minimalist Christian Realism”, paper given at the International Postgraduate Theological Symposium, Valea Draganului, Romania, 5-6 May 2005.

“Bruce D. Marshall and Donald Davidson on Epistemic Justification”, paper presented to the Seminar for Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 22 April, 2005.

“Seriousness and Rhetoric: Problems of Justification in Postliberal Theology,” conference paper at Illuminations: Reason, Revelation and Science, Oxford, July 23-27, 2002.

“The Romanian Church and Globalisation.” Paper presented at the Theology Study Day at the University of Nottingham, June 2001.

“Post-structuralist Ethics”. Paper presented at the Annual Theological Conference, Emmanuel Bible Institute, 1998.

“The Author as Otherness and Post-structuralist Hermeneutics”, paper presented at the international conference Interpretation of Texts: Sacred and Secular, History and Theory, held at Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary.

“The historical-critical method in Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Christology”. Paper presented at the Annual Theological Conference, Emmanuel Bible Institute, 1996.

“Being and Concept: Towards a Trinitarian Epistemology”, Paper presented at the Annual Theological Conference, Emmanuel Bible Institute, 1995.