Dirk Evers

Dirk Evers (* 1962 ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

From 1983 to 1989 he studied theology in Münster , Tübingen and Madurai . In 1989 he passed the first theological service examination. From 1989 to 1991 he was vicar of the Württemberg regional church . In 1991 he passed the second theological service exam and was ordained. From 1991 to 1994 he was parish vicar of the Württemberg regional church. From 1994 to 2005 he was an assistant at the Ephorus of the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen , Eberhard Jüngel . After receiving his doctorate in 1999 as Dr. theol. (2002 ESSSAT Prize from the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology) he was a repeat lecturer at the Evangelical Abbey in 2005 . After his habilitation in 2005 ( license to teach systematic theology), he was research and study inspector at the Forum Scientiarum of the University of Tübingen and head of studies at the Karl-Heim-Haus from 2005 to 2010 . In 2008 he took on a teaching position for systematic theology at the University of Zurich (substitute for Ingolf U. Dalferth ). In 2009 he was awarded the Bad Herrenalber Academy Prize.

Since 2010 he has been teaching as a professor for systematic theology / dogmatics at the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Since 2014 he has been President of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology.

His main research interests are Protestant dogmatics , the relationship between theology and natural sciences (cosmology, evolutionary theory, brain research, physics and natural philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries), the philosophy of religion (especially Leibniz , Kant , analytical philosophy , modal logic ) and theories of consciousness .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Dirk Evers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg