Andreas notices

Andreas Merkt (born November 15, 1967 in Karlsruhe ) is a German theologian and professor of historical theology at the University of Regensburg .

Life

From 1988 to 1994, Merkt studied Catholic theology , philosophy and English in Trier and Mainz . He then completed media training at the Institute for Journalism in Munich . In 1994 he obtained a master's degree in philosophy and English. After receiving his doctorate in 1996, he worked as a research assistant at the (Leibniz) Institute for European History in Mainz. He completed his habilitation in 1999 and was then a professor in Tübingen . In 2000 he received the Dr. Kurt Hellmich Prize for ecumenical research and in 2001 a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation.

Merkt has been full professor of historical theology, ancient church history and patrology in Regensburg since 2001 .

He is a member of numerous scientific and church bodies, including the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians and the Advisory Board of the Catholic Biblical Works . Since 2004 he has been the editor of the Novum Testamentum Patristicum and the Regensburg Studies on Theology. Since 2010 he has been chairman of the working group of church historians in the German-speaking area . From 2011 to 2012 he was a fellow at the Theological Research College in Erfurt.

Works

• Maximus I of Turin . The proclamation of a bishop of the early imperial church in the historical, social and liturgical context (Vigiliae Christianae Supplements 40). Leiden / New York / Cologne: Brill 1997
• The patristic principle. A study on the theological significance of the Church Fathers (Vigiliae Christianae Supplements 58). Leiden / Boston / Cologne: Brill 2001
• Purgatory. Origin and function of an idea . Darmstadt, 2005
• Football god. Eleven throw-ins (KiWi Paperback 931), Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch 2006
• Early Christian monasticism. Sources and documents from the beginning to Benedict . Darmstadt: WBG 2008
• Popular belief in ancient Christianity . Darmstadt: WBG 2009 [with Heike Grieser ]
• Suffered - died - risen. Passion and Easter traditions in ancient Christianity (WUNT II.273). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2010 [with Tobias Nicklas and Joseph Verheyden ]
• Handbook on the history of death in early Christianity and its environment . Regensburg: Schnell and Steiner 2011- [with Tobias Nicklas and Walter Ameling]
• Ancient Christian Interpretations of “Violent Texts” in the Apocalypse (NTOA 92). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011 [with Tobias Nicklas and Joseph Verheyden]
• Heaven, paradise, shalom. Death and the afterlife in ancient Christian and Jewish grave inscriptions (Handbook on the history of death in early Christianity and its environment 1), Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner 2012 [with Andreas Angerstorfer and Jutta Dresken-Weiland]
• Ancient Perspectives on Paul (NTOA 102), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013 [with Tobias Nicklas and Joseph Verheyden]
• Reforms in the Church. Historical Perspectives (QD 260), Freiburg i.Br .: Herder 2014 [with Günther Wassilowsky and Gregor Wurst]
• 1 Petrus (1st volume) (Novum Testamentum Patristicum 21/1), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2015
• The Pastoral Epistles and Their Reception (Annali di storia dellʼesegesi: The Pastoral Letters - Early Christianity 32/2), Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane 2015 [with Tobias Nicklas and Joseph Verheyden]
• Theology in early Christian and late ancient times (theology in distance learning, advanced course, lesson 6), Würzburg 2016
• "If Christ has not been raised ..." Studies on the Reception of the Resurrection Stories and the Belief in the Resurrection in the Early Church (NTOA / StUNT 115), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2016 [with Joseph Verheyden and Tobias Nicklas]
• Metamorphoses of death. Funeral cultures and conceptions of the afterlife in the course of time - From ancient Egypt to the cemetery of the present (RKST 2), Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2016
• Mark wrote numerous articles in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL).

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Merkt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Regensburg