Profile of Hans Rollmann

Biography

Dr. Hans Rollmann is a religious studies professor at Memorial University. His column appears monthly in The Weekend Telegram . His Web site address is http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~hrollman

All articles of Hans Rollmann

• Faith in our times
  Many academics and organizations have lamented the Harper government’s elimination of mandatory long-form census forms. The most recent ...
• President Paton as a churchman
  John Lewis Paton (1863-1946), the first president of Memorial University College in 1925, is well remembered today. Not only Paton College at MUN ...
• ‘Don’t forget the poor’
  “Habemus Papam Franciscum,” announces the Vatican website. “We have a Pope, Francis.” The name instantly delighted, but also surprised, the ...
• Apocalypse postponed: the sequel
  I began my career as a monthly religion columnist for the Telegram 14 years ago with a column asking, “Is the end near?” At that time, October ...
• From Moravia to Labrador
  It is Friday, the first day of a conference on missionaries from Moravia in Greenland and Labrador. I am finally in the homeland of the Brethren ...
• The parson and the doctor
  In August 1892, a lad of 17 from Bareneed, Conception Bay, joined his brothers following in their father’s footsteps to fish cod each summer in ...
• Physical Christianity
  Too often, religion is presented as if it were merely an idea, a mental construct or a doctrine to receive our assent or rejection. For children, ...
• Exploring history of priests and judges
  1729, an uneven year that does not appear at first sight to be a candidate for celebration, is nevertheless an important date for the history of ...
• When human rights and religious traditions clash
  Two weeks ago, a state court in Cologne, Germany, decided that a fundamental religious initiation rite among Muslims and Jews is illegal. ...
• The baptism of St. John
  On the Monday nearest to June 24, people in St. John’s celebrate St. John’s Day.According to tradition, John Cabot discovered the island of ...
• Music and faith in Labrador
  I have just returned from an invigorating heritage forum that the Nunatsiavut government organized in Makkovik, Labrador. On the departing ...
• Belief in God
  In my last column, I focused on the new president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck, who was a pastor and human rights advocate ...
• A faith-based quest for freedom
  As I write, Joachim Gauck has been elected with a large majority as the new president of the Federal Republic of Germany. He becomes his ...
• Nashville religion
  A few days ago, I watched the deeply moving funeral service for Whitney Houston at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J. Listening to intimate ...
• The Gospel of John in Labrador
  Throughout Christian history, the Gospel of John has been valued for its spiritual depth. The Fourth Gospel commands special attention, with ...
• Global Christianity's demographics are changing
  The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, a project undertaken by the non-profit Pew Research Center, gave the world a Christmas present in ...
• A burning issue
  On this day, Dec. 10, in 1520, a monumental act of defiance took place in Germany. In the city of Wittenberg, Martin Luther burned a formal ...
• Sunday morning at Magdalen College Chapel
  On a bright Sunday morning in early October, I walked the short distance from my quarters in Merton Street, Oxford, England, to nearby Magdalen ...
• Pietism in Newfoundland and Labrador, Part 3
  In the past two columns, I introduced the two pillars of Continental Pietism who also inspired people and churches in the English-speaking world: ...
• Just as one turns a hand...
  In my last column I introduced Philipp Jacob Spener, one of the continental pillars of Pietism, a world-wide Protestant renewal movement during ...
• Waking the sleeping congregation
  An old Latin theological distinction draws attention to two kinds of Christian faith: fides quae and fides qua.The first expression, fides quae ...
• Michael Servetus: hunted heretic
  Michael Servetus, who would become a brilliant scientist and unconventional theologian, was born 500 years ago in the Spanish city of Villanueva ...
• Zoar Inuit find their final rest
  Named after the biblical village of Zoar ("Little"), where Lot and his family fled for refuge after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the ...
• ‘For them, it’s all about the name’
  In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Enlightenment drama “Nathan the Wise,” an eloquent plea for religious tolerance, Sittah — the sister of Saladin, ...
• The Queen’s Letter
  At 8:30 in the morning of June 9, 1846, a glue pot boiled over in Hamlin’s cabinet-making shop on George Street and started a devastating fire ...
• Local Pentecostals mark centennial
  One hundred years ago, in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, April 16, 1911, in an unremarkable wooden rental building on New Gower Street, Bethesda ...
• German Catholic theologians respond to crisis
  Responding to a deepening crisis and what many find to be an inadequate response from the church’s leadership in the wake of many revelations of ...
• King James Bible celebrates its 400th anniversary
  Four hundred years ago, Robert Barker, printer to the King, published a large, heavy folio volume that left a formidable imprint not only on the ...
• ‘True Grit’ vs. modern morality
  Year’s end brought several worthwhile new films, among them “The King’s Speech” and a remake of “True Grit,” the classic Western that earned the ...
• A memorable voyage to Ungava Bay
  In this new year, 2011, we may celebrate the 200th anniversary of a remarkable voyage of exploration. Jonathan, an Inuit captain from Hopedale — ...