Anne Beetle

Anne Käfer (* 1977 ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school in June 1995 and the first church examination in February 2001, she worked on her dissertation from 2001 to 2004 . After completing her Rigorosum in 2005 and receiving the doctoral award from the University of Tübingen , she published her dissertation in 2006. From 2006 to 2008 she worked on her habilitation thesis in a separate position at the DFG . From 2008 to 2011 she completed the vicariate in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . In February 2009 she obtained the license to teach systematic theology in Tübingen . In February 2011 she passed the second ecclesiastical exam. In the summer semester 2011 she was visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2011 to 2013 Käfer was senior church councilor and consultant for theology and culture in the church office of the EKD . From 2011 to 2015 she taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2013 to 2016 she was a substitute professor at the Universities of Leipzig , Berlin and Bielefeld . Since 2016 she has been teaching as professor for systematic theology and director of the seminar for reformed theology at the WWU Münster .

Her main research interests are Reformed and Lutheran theology, Schleiermacher research, ethics of justice and ethics of animals and the world around us.

Works (selection)

Monographs

• "The true practice of art is religious". Schleiermacher's Aesthetics in the Context of Contemporary Designs by Kant, Schiller and Friedrich Schlegel ( Contributions to Historical Theology 136). Tübingen 2006 (also dissertation, Tübingen 2005).
• Incarnation and creation. Creation theological prerequisites and implications of Christology in Luther, Schleiermacher and Karl Barth ( Theological Library Töpelmann 151). Berlin / New York 2010 (also habilitation thesis, Tübingen 2009).
• Profess faith. Understand faith. A systematic-theological study on the Apostolicum ( Theological Studies. New Volume 10). Zurich 2014.

Editorships

• (together with Jens Herzer and Jörg Frey) The speech of Jesus Christ as a statement of faith. The second article of the Apostles' Creed in the Conversation between Biblical Studies and Dogmatics . Tübingen 2018.
• (together with Henning Theißen) In responsible hands. Minority as a challenge for the ethics of justice ( publications of the Scientific Society for Theology 55). Leipzig 2018.
• The reformed Schleiermacher. Conversations on the Reformed legacy in its theology , Berlin / Boston 2019.
• (together with Constantin Plaul and Florian Priesemuth) The reformed Schleiermacher. Imprints and potentials of his theology ( Schleiermacher Archive 28), Berlin / Boston 2020.

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Anne Beetle
• Prof. Dr. Anne Beetle