Friederike Nüssel

Friederike Nüssel (born November 29, 1961 in Heidelberg ) is a German professor for systematic theology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Friederike Nüssel is the daughter of the Heidelberg medicine professor Egbert Nüssel. After studying Protestant theology and the philosophy of religion in Tübingen , Göttingen , London and Munich , Nüssel became an assistant at the Institute for Fundamental Theology and Ecumenism of the Protestant theol in 1990. Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Here she was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD and habilitation in systematic theology in 1998. Your most important teacher is Wolfhart Pannenberg . In 2001 she became professor of systematic theology at the University of Münster and director of the Ecumenical Institute. Since 2006 she has been Professor of Systematic Theology in Heidelberg, where she is also director of the Ecumenical Institute. In 2010 she was elected Vice Rector for Studies and Teaching.

Her main research interests are Protestant dogmatics and their transformation in modern times, in particular Christology , the doctrine of justification and theological theory of knowledge. In addition, she is primarily interested in ecumenical theology and deals in particular with the question of the relevance of denominational identities, the understanding of ministry and the ecumenical goals of the various Christian churches and their significance for interdenominational dialogues. She is a member of the Chamber for Theology of the EKD as well as in various ecumenical bodies, u. a. in the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians , in the Joint Working Group Vatican / World Council of Churches of the Ecumenical Council of Churches and in the Ecumenical Expert Group of the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe .

She is married to media entrepreneur Matthias Schulze and has two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Obituary notice for Egbert Nüssel, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 110, May 13, 2015, p. 6.

Fonts (selection)

• Covenant and reconciliation. On the justification of dogmatics with Johann Franz Buddeus (= research on systematic and ecumenical theology. 77). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-56284-5 .
• From faith alone. On the development of the doctrine of justification in concordist and early post-concordist theology (= research on systematic and ecumenical theology. 95). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-56206-3 (also: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 1998).
• with Dorothea Sattler : Human voices for the Lord's Supper and Eucharist. Memories, inquiries, expectations. Lembeck et al., Frankfurt am Main et al. 2004, ISBN 3-87476-464-8 .
• Criteria of church unity according to the Protestant understanding: Insights into the internal Protestant discussion. In: Catholica. Vol. 60, No. 2, 2006, ISSN  0008-8501 , pp. 100-117.
• To understand the Protestant episcopate in modern times. In: Dorothea Sattler, Gunther Wenz (ed.): The church office in apostolic succession. Volume 2: Origins and Changes (= Dialogue of the Churches. 13). Herder et al., Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2006, ISBN 3-451-28618-1 , pp. 145-189.
• with Dorothea Sattler: Introduction to ecumenical theology. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-16706-7 .
• How is ecumenical consensus evangelically possible? Fundamental theological considerations following an internal evangelical debate. In: Journal for Theology and Church . Vol. 106, No. 4, 2009, pp. 434-457, JSTOR 23586335 .
• God's contentious reality? - On the transformation of a fundamental Lutheran concern in Wolfhart Pannenberg's theology. In: Christine Helmer, Bo Christian Holm (Ed.): Transformations in Luther's Theology. Historical and Contemporary Reflections (= work on church and theological history. 32). Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-374-02856-6 , pp. 39–59.

As editor or co-editor

• with Friedrich Wilhelm Horn : Taschenlexikon Religion and Theologie. 4 volumes. 5th, completely revised and expanded edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-50124-5 .
• Theological ethics of the present. An overview of central approaches and topics. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-149727-8 .
• with Johannes Oeldermann, Uwe Swarat and Athanasios Vletsis : documents of growing agreement . All reports and consensus texts of interdenominational discussions at world level. Volume 4: 2001-2010. Bonifatius-Verlag et al., Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-89710-492-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friederike Nüssel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heidelberg University website