Education
Kristianslund was educated as an agronomist from the Norwegian College of Agriculture (Norges Landbrukshøgskole) in 1959, and as candidate.oecon. He also completed a master degree in theology at KNOX University in 2015.
Kristianslund was educated as an agronomist from the Norwegian College of Agriculture (Norges Landbrukshøgskole) in 1959, and as candidate.oecon. He also completed a master degree in theology at KNOX University in 2015.
From the University of Oslo in 1962. He has two doctorates, doctor scient. from Norges Landbrukshøgskole in 1963, and doctor philosophical in agricultural economics from the Michigan State University in 1972. He worked most of his career at the Norges Landbrukshøgskole writing numerous books and dissertations, and was leader of the institute of social economics at the Oslo Business School from 1989 to 1992.
He was rector of Business intelligence Østfold from 1994 to 1995, and professor of statistics at the Business intelligence Norwegian Business School between 1993 and 1997.
He resides in Greåker, Østfold where he also works as a farmer. He was leader of the new party until 2001, when he was dismissed after a court ruled against his leadership of the party, following an internal conflict since the party"s national convention.
He founded the more fundamentalist party Christian Future later the same year, which only allowed men and those confessing to Lutheran faith to hold formal posts. In 1998 he criticised a sex-information film from the Department of Health as "solicitating to adultery", and filed charges against Christian Democratic cabinet minister Jon Lilletun.
He also filed charges against a children"s program by state broadcaster Norsk Rikskringkasting that had arranged a "kissing school" for children.
In 1999 he gathered 6,000 signatures demanding the government to dismiss bishop Rosemarie Köhn and capellan Siri Sunde from their positions due to their liberal positions on homosexual relations. The same year he also filed charges of blasphemy against the art exhibition "Ecce Homo", which displayed photographs by Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson imaging Jesus surrounded by gays and lesbians. Kristianslund appeared in the first season of Fredrik Skavlan"s talk-show Først & sist in 1998.
In 2002 he was portrayed with his then-new party in the Norsk Rikskringkasting-documentary "Norwegian fundamentalism", and was described as Norwegian fundamentalists" "most eager spokesman".
Kristianslund became the leader of the New Future Coalition Party in 1998, which merged into the Christian Unity Party the same year.