Biography:

Ante Jeroncic has been at Andrews University since 2006 and is mainly teaching courses in the areas of systematic theology and ethics.

Ante begun his theological training at the Adriatic Union College, Croatia and then at Helderberg College, South Africa. Upon receiving an MA in Theology from Stellenbosch University, he moved to the US to continue with his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. With Prof. William Schweiker as his advisor he completed his PhD after defending the dissertation titled: “The Logic of Self-Integration: Jürgen Moltmann Theological Anthropology and the Postmodern Self.”

Before joining the Department of Religion, Ante served in different pastoral settings in the Illinois Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. He nurtures a great love for preaching and the mission of the Adventist church, and strongly beliefs that theology should be done in the service of the kingdom of God. He would argue that abstract theology detached from prayer, obedience to the Word of God, and questions posed by contemporary culture is from the get go consigned to irrelevancy.
 
When asked what the central focus of his teaching and scholarly research is, he responds: “I am anxious for people to have a clearer spiritual apprehension of God’s beauty, and the fact that genuine human flourishing is entirely dependent on making the pursuit of him the all-consuming passion of our lives.” 

Ante is married to Dubravka Jeroncic.

Courses Taught: (for syllabi description see under the section Resources, main page).
RELT 100    God and Human Life
RELT 250 Personal Spirituality and Faith
RELT 326    Theology II
RELT 340     Religion and Ethics in Modern Society
RELH 400      SDA History and Prophetic Heritage
HONS 105/6   Western Heritage I & II
HONS 415     Thinking Theologically
RELG 360 Topics: World Religions

Current Research or Professional Activities:

Ante Jeroncic’s research interests currently focus on the correlation of the good and the beautiful as evidenced in Christian theology and Western intellectual history in general. He is intrigued about the different ways in which this underlying problematic shapes our understanding of the nature of theological inquiry, the doctrine of God, spirituality, and apologetics, particularly in the context of  postmodern phenomenological explorations of gifting and hospitality. In the context of this wider intellectual project, Prof. Jeroncic is currently examining the trinitarian aesthetics of Jonathan Edwards in an article readied for publication titled “The Consolations of Beauty: Jonathan Edwards on Beauty, Hospitality, and Trinitarian Ecstasy.”