Miikka Ruokanen
1978 …2024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Description of research and teaching

Please see my latest book Trinitarian Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/trinitarian-grace-in-martin-luthers-the-bondage-of-the-will-9780192895837?cc=fi&lang=en&

*PhD in Systematic Theology (University of Helsinki), PhD in Divinity (University of Cambridge).

*Professor Emeritus of Dogmatics (Systematic Theology), University of Helsinki, since September 1993, retired in October 2018.

*Professor of Systematic Theology, Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, China, since November 2018.
*Guest Professor, Renmin University of China (Beijing), since January, 2003.
*Advisory Professor, Fudan University (Shanghai), since January, 2004.
*Visiting Professor, Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, since September, 2004.

My research and teaching focus on doctrinal systematic theology (dogmatics), Biblical hermeneutics and theology, theology of worship, contextual and global theology, Chinese theology, and interreligious dialogue.

Fields of Science

  • 614 Theology

International and National Collaboration

Publications and projects within past five years.
  • Interreligious Engagement in China - The second part of the project

    Ruokanen, M. (Project manager), Zhuo, X. (Other), Zhang, Z. (Other), Wang, X. (Other), Yang, H. (Other), Ford, D. (Other), Oechs, P. (Other), Huang, P. (Participant), Adams, N. (Other), You, B. (Principal Investigator), Li, H. (Participant), Hirvonen, H. (Participant), Komulainen, J. (Participant), Illman, R. (Participant), Kuokkanen, A. (Participant), Zhao, F. (Participant), Zhang, J. (Participant), Yuan, C. (Participant), Haj Kerim, A. (Participant), Zhao, J. (Participant), Lin, M. (Participant), Wang, Y. (Participant), Zheng, X. (Other) & Gao, Z. (Participant)

    01/03/2016 → …

    Project: Research project

  • The Impact of Religious Values on Chinese Social Life - A research project of the Academy of Finland

    Ruokanen, M. (Project manager), Zhuo, X. (Participant), Zheng, X. (Participant), Tang, W. (Participant), Huilin, Y. (Participant), Wang, Y. (Participant), Wei, S. (Participant), You, B. (Participant), Zhang, Z. (Participant), Yang, X. (Participant), Ford, D. (Participant), Ochs, P. (Participant), Bevans, S. B. (Participant), Dehn, U. (Participant), Sakaranaho, T. (Participant), Hämeen-Anttila, J. (Participant), Moyaert, M. (Participant), Vähäkangas, M. (Participant), Fällman, F. (Participant), Illman, R. (Participant), Huang, P. (Participant), Päivänsalo, V. (Participant), Komulainen, J. (Participant), He, G. (Participant), Yongtao, C. (Participant), Hirvonen, H. (Participant), Jiang, M. (Participant), Gao (高), Y. (Participant), Li, L. (Participant), Yin, Z. (Participant), Kuokkanen, A. (Participant), Gao, S. (Participant) & Zhu, X. (Participant)

    01/09/201831/08/2023

    Project: Research project

  • Interreligious Engagement in China - The first part of the project: Scriptural Reasoning in China

    Ruokanen, M. (Project manager), You, B. (Project manager), Li, H. (Principal Investigator) & Gao, Z. (Principal Investigator)

    01/12/201430/09/2015

    Project: Research project

  • Interreligious Dialogue Promoting Cross-Cultural Communication (RELDIAL)

    Ruokanen, M. (Principal Investigator), Sakaranaho, T. (Principal Investigator), Hämeen-Anttila, J. (Principal Investigator), Vähäkangas, M. (Participant), Rusama, J. (Participant), Komulainen, J. (Principal Investigator), Martikainen, T. (Participant), Hasu, P. (Participant), Groop, K. (Participant), Huang, P. (Participant), Visala, A. (Participant), Jukko, R. (Participant), Hirvonen, H. (Participant), Chen, X. (Participant), Hukari, A. (Participant), Kuokkanen, A. (Participant), Chen, Y. (Participant), Kyllönen, K. (Participant), Portaankorva, J. P. (Participant), Pakkala, M. (Participant), Kojonen, E. (Participant), Huhtanen, T. (Participant), Kuismanen, R. (Participant), Haapiainen, T.-M. (Participant), Pöntinen, M.-A. (Participant), Antola, M. (Participant), Helle, J. (Participant), Kärkkäinen, V.-M. (Participant), Ruppell, G. (Participant), Ahonen, R. (Participant) & Vasko, T. (Participant)

    24/02/201131/12/2016

    Project: Research Evaluation 2011

  • Christianity in the Asian Religious Context - A research project of the Academy of Finland

    Ruokanen, M. (Project manager), Kvist, H.-O. (Other), Soikkanen, T. (Other), Zhuo, X. (Other), Yang, H. (Other), Bamo, A. (Other), Jathanna, O. V. (Other), Wickeri, P. L. (Other), Aagaard, J. (Other), Jongeneel, J. A. B. (Other), Ruppell, G. (Other), Huang, P. (Participant), Hirvonen, H. (Participant), Komulainen, J. (Participant), Antola, M. (Participant) & Dahlbacka, I. (Other)

    01/01/200131/12/2003

    Project: Research project