Biography

Adriani Milli Rodrigues is associate professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Philosophy at Andrews University. Originally from Brazil, he previously served at the Adventist University of Sao Paulo for 17 years before moving to Andrews in 2024. His PhD research in theology focused on Christology. Rodrigues is the author of “Toward a Priestly Christology: A Hermeneutical Study of Christ’s Priesthood” (Fortress Academic, 2018), and his articles have appeared in publications such as Andrews University Seminary Studies, Themelios, Religious Studies Review, the Journal of Early Christian History, the Journal of the Adventist Theological Society, Perspective Digest, and Adventist Review. He has been a visiting scholar at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he is working on a research project about the hermeneutics of testimony. Rodrigues was also a visiting scholar in Oxford, where he initiated a book project on remembering and forgetting in the theology of atonement. Adriani is in the last stages of his research on the concept of trust in connection with reflections on Pauline pistis in contemporary continental philosophy, as a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Radboud Universiteit, in the Netherlands.

Current Research or Professional Activities

Christology: especially the connection between the earthly and the ascended Christ, in systematic articulation with other themes of theology.

Soteriology: the atonement and the experience of forgiveness (remembering and forgetting).

Theology and Philosophy: testimony (hermeneutics, epistemology, and theology) and trust (attestation, faith and suspicion, and reflections on the apostle Paul in contemporary philosophy).