Peter Halldorf

{{Short description|Swedish pastor (born 1958)}}

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Peter Halldorf (born 21 June 1958) is a Swedish Pentecostal pastor, self-taught theologian, and writer. He is known for exploring Patristics, particularly the Desert Fathers, within a Pentecostal context.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qr64xLMWtJgC&pg=PA280 Theology and the Religions edited by Viggo Mortensen, pg 280][http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/11/21/surprised-by-sacraments/ "Surprised by Sacraments" by Dale M. Coulter in First Things] His interest has led him to be dubbed "The Pentecostal Monk" and sometimes prays in Coptic monasteries. He is a third-generation Pentecostal preacher who became interested in the Desert Fathers out of concerns Pentecostalism could fall into worldliness or shallowness. He also found an ultimate "gentleness" in much of the Desert Fathers' stories.[http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/devotionals/around-the-word-in-365-days?view=article&id=1065:pentecostal-monk-is-sought-after-evangelist-in-sweden&catid=154 Charisma Magazine] Halldorf has both written about and been influenced by the Flodberg Circle, an early 20th-century Swedish circle of people interested in mysticism.{{Cite thesis |last=Ekström |first=Maja |title=En ton från himmelen: En studie om Linnea Hofgren och mystikernas modersmål |date=Fall 2014 |publisher=Lund University |url=https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=5150211&fileOId=5150224 |language=sv}}{{Cite thesis |last=Ekström |first=Maja |title=Tystnadens lovsång |date=Spring 2016 |publisher=Lund University |url=https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=8895564&fileOId=8895565}}

Halldorf is additionally a two-time winner of the Emmausprisen for Christian writing.[http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/kultur/3263248.html NRK]