Corneliu is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Emanuel University of Oradea (where he currently acts as Rector in charge of academic affairs) and Associate Research Fellow in Dogmatic Theology at the University of Pretoria. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Perichoresis, the theological journal of Emanuel University, published by Emanuel University Press in conjunction with De Gruyter Open.
Qualifications
Dr Habil (Debrecen Reformed Theological University, Hungary) ThD (University of Tilburg, Netherlands) PhD (Aberdeen) BA (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Research Interests
Reformation Studies (16th and 17th centuries)
Systematic Theology (soteriology, anthropology, christology, and ecclesiology)
Contemporary Theology (Hans Kueng, Edward Schillebeeckx, Vito Mancuso)
Religious Philosophy (Jakob Boehme, Hegel, F. C. Baur)
Recent Publications
Books:
A Critical Study of Hans Küng’s Ecclesiology. From Traditionalism to Modernism (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Critical Essays on Edward Schillebeeckx’s Theology. From Theological Radicalism to Philosophical Non-Realism (Eugene, OR: Resource Publications/Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010)
Traditionalism and Radicalism in the History of Christian Thought (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Essentials of Catholic Radicalism. An Introduction to the Lay Theology of Vito Mancuso (Frankfurt am Main/Vienna: Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe, 2011)
Secularization in Contemporary Religious Radicalism. An Introduction (Blandford Forum: Deo Publishing, 2013)
God and Man in History. The Influence of Jakob Böhme and G. W. F. Hegel on Ferdinand Christian Baur’s Philosophical Understanding of Religion as Gnosis (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013)
Articles:
“Orders of Ministry”, in W. J. Torrance-Kirby (ed.), A Companion to Richard Hooker, with a Foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (Leiden: Brill, 2008). Pages 403-34.
“The Theology of Creation in Vito Mancuso’s Radical Theology”, in Acta Theologica 31.1 (2011): 138-55. [Acta Theologica is indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index at Thompson Reuters]
“The Logos between Psychology, Ontology, and Divinity. Fundamental Aspects of the Concept of Logos in the Early Thought of Slavoj Žižek”, in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 70.1 (2014): forthcoming in January 2014. [HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index at Thompson Reuters]
