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

• Wordsworth's nephew
  Edward Feild, the colonial bishop who left his stamp on the Church of England, was not a man who sugarcoated the challenges that missionaries ...
• American religious tolerance
  In March 2008, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released the first part of its "U.S. Religious Landscape Survey," based on detailed and ...
• The ubiquitous St. John's
  Tomorrow, one day early, we celebrate Discovery Day. Legend has it that Giovanni Caboto, better known as John Cabot, discovered on St. John's ...
• Ring the bells that still can ring
  For me the past two weeks have been a bittersweet memory trip, beginning with "Prince Caspian," the Disney film version of C.S. Lewis's ...
• The Pope on freedom
  Pope Benedict XVI recently celebrated his 81st birthday in the United States. His visit coincided with the bicentennial of raising the first U.S. ...
• Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
  In a recent photo on the front page of The Telegram, our new lieutenant-governor, John Crosbie, with gubernatorial gravity, reads the throne ...
• The religious landscape
  Last week, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released the first instalment of its "U.S. Religious Landscape Survey," based
• Obama's faith
  n contrast to recent Canadian political campaigns, American presidential candidates speak much about religion. In the party primary elections, ...
• Saved in hope
  Just in time for Advent, Pope Benedict XVI published his encyclical letter Spe salvi, "Saved in Hope." The encyclical, titled in traditional ...
• Peace and reconciliation at Dresden
  In the summer of 1993, fewer than four years after the reunification of Germany, I walked through the historic town centre of Dresden. Here lay ...
• Heavenly music
  Exactly 233 years ago today, on Nov. 4, 1774, Jane and James Noseworthy each dictated a letter to their friend John Stretton in Harbour Grace. ...
• The origin of fog
  Staring impatiently out of the window into the thick fog of Makkovik Harbour, I wished fervently that the grey blanket would lift so planes could ...
• Man with a gothic eye
  This year, we mark an anniversary in the religious and architectural history of Labrador. On July 8, 1857, Bishop Edward Feild consecrated a ...
• The game is over
  The chess game is over. Death has at last claimed Ingmar Bergman, who died in his home in Sweden on July 30 at age 89. I first heard of the ...
• The oldest Protestant church
  Last week, I was privileged to help Labrador Moravians celebrate their 550th anniversary as the oldest Protestant church by presenting two ...
• Faith in crisis
  ust when we think that the recent crop of agnostic and atheistic books, editorials, interviews and testimonials may have inflicted a mortal blow ...
• Bishop Feild remembered
  Edward Feild, second Anglican bishop of Newfoundland and Bermuda from 1844 until his death in 1876, was honoured on April 28 by the unveiling of ...
• Cabot, Catholics, and Carbonear
  Almost all cultures endow their beginnings with great significance and pay special attention to their origins. Newfoundlands European colonial ...
• Christ and Antichrist
  Reflecting after many years on the introduction of Pentecostal faith at Clarkes Beach, Alice Belle Garrigus, pioneer of Newfoundland ...
• Winter then and now
  Last Monday night, I went to bed with the comforting thought that one of my sons had managed to shovel the car free in the driveway. On Tuesday, ...