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LITERATURE · THEOLOGY · LOVE
Dr. Jason Lepojärvi
(pronounced Leh-poh-yar-vee)
Jason Lepojärvi completed a triple major in philosophy, theology, and pedagogics at the University of Helsinki, followed by a PhD in systematic theology. His dissertation explored C. S. Lewis’s theology of love, entitled God is love, but love is not God. His research has also been published broadly in journals, including Harvard Theological Review, Politics and Religion, The Journal of Inklings Studies, and Religious Studies. In a more popular vein, his Essays on Love (in Finnish, Rakkauden ammattilainen) is a study of love in literature and in our everyday relations. Watch Jason Lepojärvi on YouTube.
As a past president of the Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society, Dr. Lepojärvi had the opportunity to meet and engage with a wide range of authorities on C. S. Lewis and the Inklings, scholars and fans alike. He has served as a Junior Research Fellow in Theology at Oxford University, a Postdoctoral Scholar in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, and an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Thorneloe University at Laurentian in Canada. Presently he works as the C. S. Lewis Associate Professor of Theology and Literature at George Fox University in Oregon. Not only a scholar of C. S. Lewis, Dr. Lepojärvi has broader interests in all of the Inklings and his research interests extend further to the philosophy of love, sex, and gender. He directs the biennial Undiscovered C. S. Lewis Conference and is a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of C. S. Lewis.
With a father from Lapland and a mother from British Columbia, Jason is a Finnish-Canadian. A world traveler, he has lived in three continents and six countries: England, Finland, Canada, the United States, Germany, and Tanzania. He and his wife have four children, all born in different countries. Jason is no stranger to television, participating as both a contestant on the Finnish “Survivor” and academic host of “Married at First Sight”. In his spare time, Jason enjoys hunting, motorcycles, and martial arts.
BEYOND THE READING TABLE
A life of curiosity.
TEACHING & SPEAKING
Conversations across the world.
A selection of Jason’s past speaking and lecture engagements.
C. S. Lewis and Inklings Institutions+
- C.S. Lewis Foundation
- Danish C.S. Lewis Society
- Inklings Institute of Canada
- Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Illinois, USA
- New York C.S. Lewis Society
- Oxford University C.S. Lewis Society
- Portland C.S. Lewis Society
- Tolkien Society
Academic Institutions+
- Abilene Christian University, Texas, USA
- Cuyahoga Community College, Tri-C, Ohio, USA
- George Fox University, Oregon, USA
- Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA
- Lakehead University, Orillia, Ontario, Canada
- Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada
- Mackenzie University, Brasília, Brazil
- Marlborough College, Marlborough, UK
- Polin Institute, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy
- Providence College, Rhode Island, USA
- Regent College, British Columbia, Canada
- San Pablo University, Madrid, Spain
- Seattle Pacific University, Washington, USA
- Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
- Theological Institute of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
- Thorneloe University, Ontario, Canada
- Trinity Western University, British Columbia, Canada
- University of Berkeley, California, USA
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- University of Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Helsinki, Finland
- University of Oxford, UK
- University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia, Canada
- Wheaton College, Illinois, USA
Other Institutions+
- 19twenty Church, Vancouver, Canada
- American Academy of Religion
- Annual Apologetics Forum, Ryttylä, Finland
- Catholic Church in Finland
- Christian Legal Society, USA
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
- Finnish Biblical Institute, Kauniainen, Finland
- Igreja Presbiteriana do Planalto, Brasília, Brazil
- Linlathen Lectures, Ontario, Canada
- Oxford Graduate Christian Forum
- Pentecostal Church of Finland
- Saint Anne-de-Pins, Sudbury, Canada
- Seminário Servo di Cristo, São Paulo, Brazil
- St Michael’s Theological Symposium, Saint John’s Society, Portland, USA
- St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Thunder Bay, Canada
- The Newman Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
- UBC Graduate & Faculty Christian Forum
- Women’s Bank, Turku, Finland
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