Ingolf U. Dalferth

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Ingolf Ulrich Dalferth (* 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a German religious philosopher and Protestant theologian . He is considered a methodical crossover between analytical philosophy , hermeneutics and phenomenology and is a proven expert in contemporary philosophy of religion and orientation.

Life

Ingolf U. Dalferth studied theology, philosophy and linguistics in Tübingen , Edinburgh , Vienna and Cambridge . After a doctorate and habilitation in theology at the University of Tübingen , he held various positions as a study inspector at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen , as a lecturer in Durham and as a professor in Tübingen , Uppsala and Frankfurt am Main . From 1995 to 2013 he was Professor of Systematic Theology, Symbolism and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich and from 1998 to 2012 Director of the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich. From 2007 to 2020 he was Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in California. Since 2013 he has been Emeritus at the University of Zurich, since 2020 Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University.

From 1987 to 1989 he was Hulsean Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, 1995 Samuel Ferguson Lecturer at Manchester University, from 2004 to 2009 Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, from 2005 to 2006 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2008 Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Lecturer at the University of Oxford. In 2019 he gave the Prabhu Interfaith, Peace and Justice Lecture at Cal State Los Angeles, in 2020 (together with Claudia Welz) the Tillich Lecture 2020 in Frankfurt am Main.

From 1986 to 1988, from 1996 to 1998 and from 2004 to 2006 he was President of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion, and from 1999 to 2008 he was the founding president of the German Society for the Philosophy of Religion. In 2015/16 he was President of the Society for the Philosophy of Religion in the USA, and in 2020 the first IRF Fellow at the Institute for Research on Religious Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

From 2000 to 2020 he was the main editor of the Theologische Literaturzeitung (Leipzig) and of Religion in Philosophy and Theology (Tübingen).

Honors

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Dalferth's research focuses on christological, ecclesiological and methodological topics in systematic theology, church and ecumenism (Anglicanism), philosophy of religion (analytical philosophy of religion, phenomenology) and philosophical theology, semiotics, philosophy of language and hermeneutics (theory of signs, language processes, forms of understanding) and emotions , Trust, prayer, evil and evil. His area of ​​work also includes various functions within the Swiss and German Churches as well as in the ecumenical movement.

Fonts (selection)

  • Religious talk of God. Studies in the analytical philosophy of religion and theology , Munich 1981.
  • Existence of God and Christian faith. Sketches for an eschatological ontology , Munich 1984.
  • Theology and Philosophy , Oxford 1988.
  • Combinatorial Theology. Problems of theological rationality , QD 130, Herder, Freiburg a. a. 1991. ISBN 3-451-02130-7 .
  • God. Philosophical-theological attempts at thought , Tübingen 1992.
  • Beyond myth and logos. The Christological Transformation of Theology , Freiburg a. a. 1993.
  • The crucified one raised from the dead. On the grammar of Christology . Mohr, Tübingen 1994. ISBN 3-16-146296-3 .
  • Interpreted present. On the perception of God in the experiences of time , Tübingen 1997.
  • On the way of ecumenism. The community of Protestant and Anglican churches according to the Meissen Declaration , Leipzig 2002.
  • The reality of the possible. Hermeneutic Philosophy of Religion , Tübingen 2003.
  • Evangelical theology as a practice of interpretation. A systematic orientation , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004. ISBN 978-3-374-02120-8 .
  • Becoming present. An Inquiry into the Christian Sense of the Christian Sense of the Presence of God , Leuven / Paris / Dudley 2006.
  • The evil. Essay on the cultural way of thinking of the incomprehensible , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-16-149031-6 .
  • Suffering and evil. On the difficult handling of the absurd , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006. ISBN 978-3-374-02411-7 .
  • Bible in righteous language? Critique of a failed attempt , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-16-149448-2 .
  • Malum. Theological Hermeneutics of Evil , Tübingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-16-149447-5 .
  • Radical theology. Faith in the 21st Century , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2010. ISBN 978-3-374-02786-6 .
  • The contingency of evil, in: The evil. Three approximations , ed. from the Research Institute for Philosophy Hannover, Freiburg i. Br. 2011 (along with the contributions by Karl Cardinal Lehmann, The Question of the Origin of Evil, and by Navid Kermani, Islamic Interpretations of Doom on the World), pp. 9–52. ISBN 978-3-451-34057-4 .
  • For free. A reminder of the creative passivity of people , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011. ISBN 978-3-16-150940-7 .
  • Selfless passions. Christian faith and human passions , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2013. ISBN 978-3-16-152528-5 .
  • Transcendence and the secular world , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2015. ISBN 978-3-16-153836-0 .
  • Creatures of Possibility: The Theological Basis of Human Freedom , Grand Rapids: Baker Academic 2016, ISBN 978-0-8010-9810-9 .
  • Hope (basic themes of philosophy) , Berlin: de Gruyter 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-049467-9 .
  • Radical Theology: An Essay on Faith and Theology in the Twenty-First Century , Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press 2016, ISBN 978-1-4514-8881-4 .
  • God first: The Reformation revolution of the Christian way of thinking , Leipzig: EVA 2018, ISBN 978-3-374-05652-1 .
  • Active word: Bible, Scripture and Gospel in the life of the Church and in the thinking of theology , Leipzig: EVA 2018, ISBN 978-3-374-05648-4 .
  • The art of understanding. Basics of a hermeneutics of communication through texts , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-155623-4 .
  • Transcendence and the Secular World: Life in orientation to ultimate presence , Translated by Jo Bennet, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2018.
  • Sin: The Discovery of Humanity : Leipzig: EVA 2020.

literature

  • Hans-Peter Großhans, Michael Moxter , Philipp Stoellger (eds.): The last - the first. Think god. Festschrift for Ingolf U. Dalferth on his 70th birthday . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-156091-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Leipzig press release of October 13, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Dalferth, Ingolf U.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalferth, Ingolf Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious philosopher and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart