Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen | Eerdmans Author Interview Series
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
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3 March 2014
17 December 2025
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, and docent of ecumenics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is also author of Trinity and Revelation [http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6854/trinity-and-revelation.aspx], the second installment in a wide and deep constructive theology for our time.
In Trinity and Revelation Pentecostal theologian Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen develops a constructive theology of triune revelation and the triune God in dialogue with Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths.
Kärkkäinen's Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World is a five-volume project that aims to develop a new approach to and method of doing Christian theology in a pluralistic world at the beginning of the third millennium. With the metaphor of hospitality serving as the framework for his discussion, Kärkkäinen engages Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in sympathetic and critical mutual dialogue while remaining robustly Christian in his convictions. Never before has a fullscale doctrinal theology been attempted in such a wide and deep dialogical mode.
Video Credits
Interviewer and Production Assistant: Jacob Thielman
Producer, Camera Operator, and Editor: Ahna Ziegler
