Christian Senkel

Christian Senkel (born December 29, 1965 in Munich ) is a German Protestant theologian and associate professor for systematic theology at the theological faculty in Halle .

Live and act

Senkel studied Protestant theology in Munich and received his doctorate there in 1997 with Hermann Timm with a thesis on "Quotation in theological language thinking". After positions at the Universities of Würzburg and Marburg , Senkel went to Halle (Saale) in 2001 , where he worked, among other things, as an employee of Klaus Tanner and Jörg Dierken . In 2010 he completed his habilitation there with a thesis on “Denominational semantics in the national discourse between 1749 and 1813”. Since then he has worked, among other things, as the head of the state graduate school “Cultural Effects of the Reformation” for the Reformation History Society of Martin Luther University and has held deputy professorships at Bielefeld University , the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau and the University of Gießen .

Publications (selection)

• Authorization. The quotation in theological language thinking. Case studies on Erasmus from Rotterdam, Johann Georg Hamann and Karl Kraus , Weinheim 2003. ISBN 978-3-407-32052-0
• Patriotism and protestantism. Confessional semantics in national discourse between 1749 and 1813 , Tübingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-16-152714-2 .
• together with Michael Fischer (ed.): Secularization and sacralization. Literature - Music - Religion , Tübingen and Basel 2004. ISBN 978-3-7720-8042-5 .
• together with Michael Fischer and Klaus Tanner (eds.): Founding of the Empire 1871. Event - Description - Staging , Münster a. a. 2010. ISBN 978-3-8309-7103-0 .
• as editor: Geistes Gegenwart: on the religious foundation of the lifeworld , Leipzig 2016. ISBN 978-3-374-04185-5 .
• together with Alf Christophersen and Marianne Schröter (eds.): Reformation heute , Leipzig 2017. ISBN 978-3-374-04977-6 .
• together with Eberhard Harbsmeier (Hrsg.): Innerlichkeit - Existence - Subject: Kierkegaard in context. Documentation of two international working discussions at the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Francke Foundations in Halle an der Saale , Leipzig 2017. ISBN 978-3-374-04804-5 .
• together with Alf Christophersen and Marianne Schröter (eds.): Protestantische Individualitätskulturen , Leipzig 2018. ISBN 978-3-374-04943-1 .

Web links

• Data sheet on the website of MLU Halle-Wittenberg
• Curriculum Vitae on the Justus Liebig University Giessen website