Christof Mandry

Christof Mandry (* 1968 in Stuttgart ) is a German theologian , ethicist and university professor .

Life

From 1989 to 1996, Mandry studied Catholic theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Center Sèvres in Paris , with a degree in theology and philosophy , which he completed with a Magister Artium . He then worked as a research assistant at the Interfaculty Center for Ethics in Science (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen, in the “European Network for Biomedical Ethics” department. From 1997 to 1999 Mandry was supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg State Graduate Scholarship, after which he became a research assistant at the Chair of Theological Ethics / Social Ethics of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen, before starting a thesis on the relationship between theological and philosophical in 2001 Ethics to Dr. theol. received his doctorate.

From 2000 to 2003, Mandry, as a research assistant at the IZEW at the University of Tübingen, was in charge of the accompanying scientific program for the introduction of the basic ethical and philosophical studies (EPG) in Baden-Württemberg . Then in 2004 Mandry moved to the University of Erfurt , where he was a post-doc at the Max-Weber-Kolleg for cultural and social science studies from 2004 to 2006 , working on the research project "Europe as a community of values ​​- a theological-social-ethical study" . At the same time, he also held a position as a research assistant at the Max Weber College in the joint project “Mobilization of Religion in Europe”. Also from 2004 to 2006 Mandry was visiting professor for Christian social ethics at the Catholic University of Social Sciences Berlin (KHSB). He is a founding member and was the managing director of the Berlin Institute for Christian Ethics and Politics (ICEP) of the KHSB.

The Habilitation Mandrys took place in 2009 Theological Catholic at the Faculty of the University of Erfurt, with a thesis on Europe as a community of values. Afterwards he was initially a private lecturer for theological ethics , then until the summer semester 2013 he held the chair for Christian Weltanschauung, religious and cultural theory and Christian social science at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt. In the 2013/14 academic year, Mandry represented the Chair of Social Ethics and Practical Theology at the Institute for Catholic Theology at Saarland University , after which he was appointed to the Chair of Moral Theology / Social Ethics at the Department of Catholic Theology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main .

Research priorities

Mandry's research focuses on theology and culture, political ethics - especially Europe and the European Union - ethical questions in medicine as well as basic questions and applications of theological ethics and Christian social ethics .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Ethical identity and Christian belief. Theological ethics in the field of tension between theology and philosophy , Mainz: Grünewald 2002. ISBN 3-7867-2375-3 .
• Europe as a community of values. A theological-ethical investigation into the political self-image of the European Union , Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009. ISBN 978-3-8329-4615-9 .
• The future of the European Union. Public discourses in Europe (Church and Society Green Series No. 444, edited by the Catholic Central Social Science Center). JP Bachem Medien, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7616-3195-9 .

Editorships

• Construction site welfare state! Socio-ethical explorations in confusing terrain (with Stefan Kurzke-Maasmeier and Christine Oberer), Münster: Aschendorff 2006. ISBN 3-402-00571-9 .
• Culture, plurality and ethics. Perspektiven in Sozialwissenschaften und Ethik , Münster: Lit 2003. ISBN 3-8258-6880-X .
• Literature without morals. Literary studies and ethics in conversation , Münster: Lit 2003. ISBN 3-8258-6450-2 .
• Ethical-philosophical foundations in teacher training (with Julia Dietrich), Tübingen: IZEW, 2001.

Web links

• Website of the chair at the Goethe University Frankfurt / Main