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Public disputation for Josef Edebol

Bilde av Josef Edebol i VID-ramme
Photo: Church of Sweden
  • Auditorium 261, VID Stavanger
  • November 21st 2025, 14:15 – 18:30
The Centre for World Christianity and Religion (CWCR) welcomes you to Josef Edebol’s trial lecture and public defence of his PhD dissertation “God of the Common Good. Christian Virtue and the Common Good”.

Title of the dissertation

“God of the Common Good. Christian Virtue and the Common Good”. 

If you wish to read the dissertation, please contact CWCR-phd-support@vid.no

Adjudication Committee

Professor Mary M. Keys, Notre Dame University, USA

Professor Marius Timmann Mjaaland, University of Oslo

Professor Knut Alfsvåg, VID Specialized University

The ordinary opponents are:

Professor Mary M. Keys, Notre Dame University, as first ordinary opponent.

Professor Marius Timmann Mjaaland, University of Oslo, as second ordinary opponent.

Programme

20. november 15.00 Trial lecture on a given topic: "The implications of human sinfulness for the understanding of human rationality according to Thomas Aquinas, and how virtue ethics is affected by this problem".

21. november 14.15  Josef Edebol will publicly defend his thesis “God of the Common Good. Christian Virtue and the Common Good”. 

The disputation will be chaired by Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences Vebjørn L. Horsfjord

Contact person

Christine Myrdal Lukash