Risto Saarinen#
| Membership Number: | 4040 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ristosaarinen |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Professor of Ecumenics, University of Helsinki
- 2011 - 2014 Visiting Professor in Ecumenics, KU Leuven
- 1994 - 1999 Research Professor of Ecumenics, Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg
- Acting Professor of Social Ethics, University of Helsinki, 1992-93, 1999-2001
Fields of Scholarship
- Systematic theology
- Ecumenics
- History of philosophy
Honours and Awards
- 2014 - 2019 Director of the Centre of Excellence "Reason and Religious Recognition", Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki
- World Congress of Luther Reserch, Chair of the Organising Committee 2010-2012 (Helsinki 2012 Congress)
- Chair of Section Theology and Religious Studies, Finnish Academy of Arts and Letters, 2008-2013 (member since 1999, secretary 2003-2008)
- 2005 - 2010 Honorary Professor, University of Aarhus
- Societas Oecumenica, Chair of the Organising Committee for 1996 Strasbourg Plenary (and again for 2016 Helsinki Plenary)
- 1990 Dissertation Award, Finnish Academy of Arts and Letters
