Katharina Bracht

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Katharina Bracht (* 1967 in Würzburg ) is a German Protestant church historian . She is Professor of Church History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1987 and studying Protestant theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University , Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Church College Berlin (1987–1994), she passed the first theological exam at the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in 1994 . The doctorate at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst , with the work Perfection and Perfection. She graduated in 1998 on the anthropology of the Methodius of Olympus . She completed the parish vicariate (1998–2000) in Bielefeld and the special vicariate at the Bethel Church University (2000–2001). She was pastor for the employment of the reformed parish of Bielefeld from 2001 to 2002. She was ordained in 2002 .

From 2002 to 2009 she was junior professor for church history with a focus on older church history and patristic theology at the Humboldt University of Berlin . From 2009 to 2011 she worked at the Research Center for Old Church Commentary Literature of the Evangelical-Theological Faculty of the LMU Munich, where in 2011 she worked on Hippolyt's scripture In Danielem. Communicative strategies of an early Christian commentary was habilitated . Since 2011 she has been a full professor for church history at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. She researches the older church history and patristic theology, in particular Methodius of Olympus , Hippolytus of Rome and the reception of Daniel in the history of Christianity.

She is a member of the Association Internationale d'Études Patristiques , Patristic Working Group , Scientific Society for Theology , the Munich Center for Ancient Worlds (associated) and the Society for Thuringian Church History .

Publications (selection)

  • Perfection and consummation. On the anthropology of Methodius of Olympus. ( Studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity ; Volume 2). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-16-147250-0 . (= Dissertation)
  • Securitas libertatis. Augustine's discovery of radical freedom of choice as the origin of evil. Inaugural lecture. February 4, 2004. Humboldt University of Berlin. Faculty of Theology. ( Humboldt University of Berlin. Public lectures ; Issue 140). Humboldt University, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86004-190-8 .
  • with David S. du Toit (ed.): The history of the interpretation of Daniel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Studies on the commentary on the Daniel book in literature and art. ( Supplements to the Journal for Old Testament Science ; Issue 371). De Gruyter, New York / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3110193015 .
  • Hippolyt's writing In Danielem. Communicative strategies of an early Christian commentary. ( Studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity ; Volume 85). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-152034-1 . (= slightly revised habilitation thesis)

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personal data
SURNAME Bracht, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg