Adj. Prof. Pekka Kärkkäinen

Pekka Kärkkäinen, ThD (Helsinki 2003) is a researcher and adjunct professor at the Department of Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki. He specializes in Reformation theology and late medieval nominalist philosophy. The current study project intends to investigate scholastic philosophical psychology in Germany from 1480 to 1520 and its impact on Reformation.

Selected publications

Monographs

• Luthers trinitarische Theologie des Heiligen Geistes. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz 208. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern 2005.

Articles

• "Nature and Individual in Jodocus Trutfetter's 'Summa in totam physicen'", in J.A. Aertsen & A. Speer (eds.), Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter? (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 26), Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 1998, 824-828.
• "Luthers Pneumatologie" in: U. Nissen et al. (eds.) Luther Between Present and Past. Studies in Luther and Lutheranism. Helsinki: Luther-Agricola Society, 2004, 40-52.
• "On the Semantics of 'Human Being' and 'Animal' in early 16th Century Erfurt" Vivarium 42:2 (2004), 237-256. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568534043084720)
• "Theology, Philosophy and Immortality of the Soul in the Late Via Moderna of Erfurt" Vivarium 43:2 (2005), 337-360. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853405774978335)
• "Nominalist Psychology and Limits of Canon Law in Late Medieval Erfurt", in: V. Mäkinen (ed.), Lutheran Reformation and the Law, Leiden: Brill, 2006, 93-110.
• "Interpretations of Psychological Analogy from Aquinas to Biel", in: P. Kärkkäinen (ed.), Trinitarian Theology in the Medieval West. Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society 2007, 256-279.
• "Objects of Sense Perception in Late Medieval Erfurtian Nominalism" in: S. Knuuttila & P. Kärkkäinen, Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer 2008, 187–202. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6125-7_12)
• (with Henrik Lagerlund) "Philosophical Psychology in 1500: Erfurt, Padua and Bologna" in: S. Heinämaa & M. Reuter, Psychology And Philosophy Inquiries Into The Soul From Late Scholasticism To Contemporary Thought. Dordrecht: Springer 2008, 27-45. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8582-6_2)
• "Psychology and the Soul in Late Medieval Erfurt" Vivarium 47:4 (2009), 421-443. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/004275409X12482627895168)
• "Martin Luther", in: Ph. W. Rosemann (ed.), Medieval Commentaries of the Sentences of Peter Lombard, vol. 2. Leiden: Brill, 2009, 471-494.

Edited Works

• Johdatus Lutherin teologiaan [An Introduction to Luther's Theology], Helsinki: Kirjapaja 2001. 344 p.
• Trinitarian Theology in the Medieval West. Helsinki: Luther-Agricola-Society 2007.
• (with Simo Knuuttila) Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. Springer 2008.

Translations

• Finnish translation with commentary of The Roman Confutation of Augsburg Confession (Confutatio Confessionis Augustanae) as "Augsburgin tunnustuksen kumoamus" in Reformaation tunnustukset, ed. Risto Saarinen. Helsinki: Suomalainen teologinen kirjallisuusseura 2009, 235-75.
• Finnish translation of some sources of Aristotelian philosophical psychology from late medieval Erfurt as "Aristotelinen psykologia myöhäiskeskiajan Erfurtissa". Available in: http://www.helsinki.fi/people/pekka.karkkainen/lutherinps.pdf

Internet Resources

• Jodocus Trutfetter and Bartholomäus Arnoldi von Usingen Homepage (in German).
• Medieval and Renaissance Psychological Sources on the Internet
• Personal blog
• Finnish Luther studies blog