Torstein Jørgensen CV

Born 1951, Kristiansand. Cand.theol. 1976 and Practical-theological Seminary 1977 from The Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology, Oslo. Doctor of theology, University of Oslo 1988. Chaplain Norw. Airforce/Church of Norway 1977-1979. Thereafter following offices in the field of church history at The School of Mission and Theology (MHS), Stavanger: research fellow 1980-84, lecturer 1985-87, assistant professor 1987-91, professor 1991-.

Visiting research fellow Umpumulo Theological College/University of Natal, South Africa 1981, visiting researcher Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen 1995, and Vatican Archives and Library, Rome 1997/98 and for shorter periods during following years. Visiting lecturer at different universities/research institutes abroad: Durban, Hong Kong, Cambridge, Yoork, Rome, Dublin, Århus, and Uppsala, and in Norway: Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim.

Dean of faculty MHS 1992-94, deputy dean and co-ordinator of MHS' Master Degree programme 1994-96.

Member of committee for theology and history of religion NAVF/NFR 1992-2000. Deputy chairman of Stavanger Research Academy 1998-2002.

Opponent at doctoral dissertations at the Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology, University of Bergen and University of Copenhagen.

Within the CoE, I shall lead the project on religion, and its coordination with the other three projects of the programme. Together with Haug I shall have the main responsibility for the supervision of dr. art. theses and other work under this project. My own research contribution will be on the religious change process of Scandinavia, in comparison with that of other areas of the European periphery in focus in this programme. Further, in 1996 the first fruit of an NFR-supported project on the registration, transcription and interpretation of medieval Norwegian supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary was published in the book: Letters to the Pope: Norwegian Relations to the Holy See in the Late Middle Ages. In co-operation with the Italian historian Dr. Gastone Saletnich, I have during the last years worked out a complete registration of altogether approx. 150 hitherto unknown texts relative to the church province of Nidaros (including Iceland, Orkneys and the Hebrides). The transcribed and translated texts will appear in a new book in 2002, laying the ground for new research on a virginal text basis. In close cooperation with Haug, Mortensen and Mundal, I shall participate in the research on church organisation, mendicant orders, popular religion and medieval Latin and in the Cambridge-Bergen project.