Dr Harri Huovinen, ThD

• University lecturer in Systematic Theology and Church History at the University of Eastern Finland
• Key research projects:
  • The Place of Religious Experience in Patristic Ecclesiology, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation
  • The Book of Isaiah and its Jewish Exegetical Tradition: Luke-Acts as a Model for Isaiah’s Reception in Premodern Christianity, co-leader with Prof. Lukas Bormann (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
  • Several other national and international research projects on topics including
    • Chrysostom studies: ecclesiology, catechetical theology, and eschatology
    • Origen studies: ecclesiology, catechetical theology, pedagogy, and natural theology
    • Patristic views on the diaconate
    • Biblical reception in fourth-century patristic sources
    • Reception of the Church Fathers in Reformation theology (especially Bugenhagen and Luther)
    • Twentieth-century Romanian Orthodox theologians: ecclesiology and patristic reception
• Editor of doctoral dissertations (Theology), Dissertations in Education, Humanities, and Theology, Publications of the University of Eastern Finland
• Member of the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed series and journals
  • Studia Patristica Fennica
  • Review of Ecumenical Studies
  • Ortodoksia
• Chairperson, Finnish Patristic Society
• Board member, Karelian Theological Society
• ThD in Systematic Theology and Patristics, awarded in 2022 with the highest honors by the University of Eastern Finland; dissertation: Images of Divine Participation: A Reappraisal of Fourth Century Views on Church Membership (2022)
• Visiting lecturer at the Kobe Lutheran Theological Seminary, Kobe, Japan, 2015-2017.
• 15 years of professional experience in church communities in Japan and Finland