Halvor Moxnes | |
Birth Date: | 13 September 1944 |
Birth Place: | Stokke, Norway |
Alma Mater: | University of Oslo |
Thesis Title: | Theology in Conflict[1] |
Thesis Year: | 1977 |
Influences: | W. D. Davies |
Discipline: | Theology |
Sub Discipline: | New Testament studies |
Workplaces: | University of Oslo |
Influenced: | [2] |
Halvor Moxnes (born 1944) is a Norwegian theologian.
He was born in Stokke on 13 September 1944. He received his Doctor of Theology degree in 1978 with the thesis Theology in Conflict: Studies in Paul's Understanding of God in Romans, and was appointed as a professor of the New Testament at the University of Oslo in 1984. In 2005 he received an honorary degree at the University of Copenhagen[3] and he is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4] In 2006 ran for election as the dean of the Faculty of Theology, but lost to Trygve Wyller.[5]