Aud Valborg Tønnessen (born 1 June 1964) is a Norwegian Lutheran theologian, church historian, professor of theology and the dean of the Faculty of Theology at the

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. She is an expert on Norwegian church history and Christian international humanitarian work. She was elected as a member of the

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Selected works

* Tønnessen, Aud Valborg: ''Kirkens Nødhjelp: Bistand, tro og politikk'', Oslo:

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, 2007. * Jensen, Roger, Dag Thorkildsen og Aud Valborg Tønnessen (ed.): ''Kirke, protestantisme og samfunn: Festskrift til professor dr. Ingun Montgomery'', Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2006. * Tønnessen, Aud Valborg: ''"... et trygt og godt hjem for alle"? Kirkelederes kritikk av velferdsstaten etter 1945'', Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2000.

References

1964 births Living people Norwegian theologians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters{{Theology-stub