Helga Kuhlmann

Helga Kuhlmann (born June 20, 1957 in Hagen ) is a German professor of systematic theology and ecumenism at the University of Paderborn . She became known through numerous publications and lectures on systematic-theological questions, as well as the editor of the Bible in fair language .

Life and focus of work

From 1977 to 1984 Helga Kuhlmann studied Protestant theology and education at the Ruhr University in Bochum , the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and the Philipps University in Marburg . After the first theological exam in 1984 at the Evangelical Church of Westphalia , she was granted a doctoral scholarship from 1985 to 1986 by the Hessian State Graduate Fund. From 1986 to 1990 Helga Kuhlmann was a lecturer in Protestant theology at the college for social education, curative education and diakonia in Hephata / Treysa. She then worked from 1990 to 1992 as a research assistant in the Protestant Theology department, social ethics department at the University of Marburg. In 1992 she received her doctorate at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with a thesis on the theological ethics of Albrecht Ritschl and worked as a research assistant at the theological faculty in Heidelberg in the field of systematic theology and ethics until 1995. Since 1998 she has held the chair for systematic theology and ecumenism in Protestant theology at the University of Paderborn .

Helga Kuhlmann is a member of the Chamber of theology of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), chairman of the German section of the European Society for Theological Research of Women, chairman of the Textbooks Committee of the churches in North Rhine-Westphalia, chairman of the jury of the Hanna-Jursch price of EKD and 2nd chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions . Her main research interests are: theology and religion in modern times; Theological ethics, especially health and medical ethics; Ecumenical theology; Theological gender research; Relationship between body and spirit; Theology and Philosophy in Conversation; Theology Dorothee Sölles ; Conversation between religions.

Works (selection)

• Helga Kuhlmann: Albrecht Ritschl's theological ethics, series of contributions to Protestant theology, Volume 112, Munich 1992 ( ISBN 978-3-579-01919-2 ).
• Helga Kuhlmann (ed.): And inside the chaste housewife rules. On the ethics of gender difference, Gütersloh 1995 ( ISBN 978-3-579-02005-1 ).
• Helga Kuhlmann: Theology at the University? Comments on an ongoing problem, Paderborn 2000.
• Hans-Richard Reuter, Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , Helga Kuhlmann, Karl-Heinrich Lütcke (eds.): Responsibility for freedom. Festschrift for Wolfgang Huber on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Gütersloh 2002 ( ISBN 978-3-579-05385-1 ).
• Elisabeth Gössmann , Helga Kuhlmann, Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel , Ina Praetorius, Helen Schüngel-Straumann , Luise Schottroff , Doris Strahm, Agnes Wuckelt (ed.): Dictionary of Feminist Theology, Gütersloh 2nd, completely revised and fundamentally expanded edition 2002 ( ISBN 978-3-579-00285-9 ).
• Helga Kuhlmann, Martin Leutzsch , Harald Schroeter-Wittke (eds.): Travel. Tracks for a theology on the way. (INPUT 1). Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-6716-4 .
• Helga Kuhlmann: Leib-Leben theologically think, Paderborn 2004 ( ISBN 978-3-8258-7382-0 ).
• Helga Kuhlmann, The Bible - translated into fair language? Basics of a new translation, Gütersloh 2005, 4th edition 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-579-05499-5 ).
• Marion Keuchen, Helga Kuhlmann, Harald Schroeter-Wittke (eds.), The best supporting roles. 50 portraits of biblical marginal figures, Leipzig 2006, 2nd edition 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-374-02369-1 ).
• Ulrike Bail, Frank Crüsemann , Marlene Crüsemann, Erhard Domay, Jürgen Ebach, Claudia Janssen , Hanne Köhler, Helga Kuhlmann, Martin Leutzsch and Luise Schottroff (eds.): Bible in just language , Gütersloh 2006, 3rd edition 2007 ( ISBN 978- 3-579-05500-8 ).
• Helga Kuhlmann, Stefanie Schäfer-Bossert (eds.): Does evil have a gender? Theological and religious studies relationship determinations. Stuttgart 2006 ( ISBN 978-3-17-019017-7 ).
• Helga Kuhlmann (ed.): More an art than a science. Resonances from Dorothee Sölle's theology. Stuttgart 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-7831-2968-7 ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Helga Kuhlmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of the University of Paderborn on Helga Kuhlmann.
• Goethe-Institut website September 2006 Dagmar Giersberg interviewed Helga Kuhlmann.
• Belief - what does it help in life and in death? Lecture by Helga Kuhlmann at the German Evangelical Church Congress 2007, broadcast on domradio.de on November 2, 2007.

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1. ↑ Table of contents from: Helga Kuhlmann, Stefanie Schäfer-Bossert (ed.), Does evil have a gender? (PDF; 70 kB)