Jayne Svenungsson

Jayne Svenungsson is Professor of Systematic Theology at Lund University in Sweden. Currently director of the multidisciplinary research program At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present, her research focuses on political theology and philosophy of history. She has engaged with Daniel Bensaïd in series of recent articles, including “Political Theologies at the End of the World” (Eco-ethica, 2024), “The End of Law and other Miracles” (Studia Theologica, 2025), and “Prophetic Political Theology” (Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 2025). Her latest monograph is Divining History: Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit (Berghahn, 2016).