The website is a contribution to my academic field, and so containing the thoughts, activities, publications and other materials of relevance for people like me, professionally active or just interested in my field. The following quote might give you an idea of my philosophical attitude:

“To think is not to get out of the cave; it is not to replace the uncertainty of shadows by the clear-cut outlines of things themselves, the flame’s flickering glow for the light of the true Sun. To think is to enter the Labyrinth… It is to lose oneself amidst galleries which exist only because we never tire of digging them; to turn round and round at the end of a cul-de-sac whose entrance has been shut off behind us—until, inexplicably, this spinning around opens up in the surrounding wall’s cracks which offer passage” (Cornelius Castoriadis, Crossroads in the Labyrinth, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984).

To me, philosophy is a permanent and systematic attempt to find cracks in the walls of the ”idola tribus” (as Francis Bacon said) – the idols of the tribe, the dominating and self-evident truths of a society.

Who are you, Frederik?

I’m a European scholar at the top of my youth, based in Copenhagen and devoted to Philosophy of Religion among other scholarly disciplines.

I received my degree in Theology from the University of Copenhagen (like Kierkegaard), but I have studied philosophy in Heidelberg and Frankfurt (Germany) as well – studies I have all managed to conjoin.

At the time I am working as a PhD-fellow at the Center for Naturalism and Christian Semantics (CNCS) at The University of Copenhagen. I am working with philosophical lines of tradition that have shown to be a potential to theological proposals of constructing a positive relation between theology and science. German Idealism is my homefield. At this time I am dedicated to the thoughts of the late Schelling and his theological uses (e.g. Paul Tillich), over against the thoughts of C.S. Peirce and his line of tradition, which have not yet shown its full theological potential.

Even though Copenhagen is the most awesome place for international engaged studies, a part of me never left southern Germany. The people and the universities I learned to know there have proved scholarly quality and standards in my field, I could never had imagined. Germany is truly an Eden of philosophy!

Frederik