Tomas Bokedal

Tomas Bokedal (ThD, Lund University, Sweden) is Associate Professor in New Testament at NLA University College, Bergen, Norway, and Lecturer in New Testament at King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland; he is also a counselling practitioner at Haraldsplass Diakonale Sykehus, Bergen. Previously Bokedal taught theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in Gothenburg, Sweden. His primary fields of research concern Christian origins and the relation of ‘Scripture and Theology’. Author of The Formation and Significance of the Christian Biblical Canon (T&T Clark 2014), he is currently working academically on the relationship between scriptural canonicity and the emergence of early Trinitarian theology. Among his other projects are a study on the Rule of Faith in biblical interpretation and a monograph on the concepts of freedom and despair in Kierkegaard.