Katharina Heyden

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Katharina Heyden (born April 30, 1977 in East Berlin ; née Rößler) is a German Protestant theologian . She is a professor for the early history of Christianity and interreligious encounters at the University of Bern and a Lutheran ordained minister .

Life

After studying Protestant and Catholic theology in Berlin, Jerusalem and Rome (1996–2003), she passed the first theological exam in 2003 . As a research assistant (2003–2005) at the Chair for Ancient Church History with Martin Wallraff at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and a PhD scholarship (2005–2008) in the DFG Graduate College of late antiquity at the FSU Jena , she wrote the work: “The ' Tale of Aphroditian '. Theme and variations of a legend in the field of tension between Christianity and paganism ”, with which she received her doctorate in 2008 and was awarded the dissertation prize of the Society for the Study of the Christian East in 2009. While she worked from 2008 to 2011 as a research assistant at Peter Gemeinhardt's chair for older church history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , she passed the second theological exam at the Hanoverian regional church in 2010 and was awarded the teaching award of the Göttingen Theological Faculty twice . After her ordination as a pastor in 2011, she worked as an honorary pastor (2011-2014) in St. Jacobi Göttingen. As a Dorothea Schlözer research fellow at the University of Göttingen (2012–2013) , Katharina Heyden completed her habilitation in 2013 with the thesis Orientation. Western Christianity and the Holy Land in ancient times. From 2012 to 2017 she was the first female theologian to be a member of the “ Young Academy ” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Since 2014 she has been professor for the early history of Christianity and interreligious encounters at the University of Bern and guest preacher at Bern Minster , and since 2018 director of the inter-faculty research cooperation “Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies” at the University of Bern. She is married to the religious educator Carsten Heyden, with whom she has three sons.

Katharina Heyden researches interreligious encounters ( conflict , conviviality , dialogue ) in antiquity and the Middle Ages , the doctrine of God , especially the doctrine of the energies of God , discourses on holiness , the early Christian historiography and iconography of as well as historically and theologically significant places in Switzerland. From 2015 to 2019 she headed the SNSF research project “Akindynos and Palamas in the Controversy over Divine Energies. Edition, translation and analysis of central works of the controversy ”. From 2019 she will also be involved in the SNSF Sinergia research project "Lege Josephum: Ways of Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages".

Katharina Heyden is a member of the Association Internationale d'Études Patristiques , Patristic Working Group , Scientific Society for Theology (head of the Church History Section since 2017), the Friends of the Centro Melantone Rome (Chair), the Gethsemanekloster Riechenberg Support Group and the Christian Archeology Working Group.

Publications (selection)

As an author:

  • The "Tale of Aphroditian". Theme and variations of a legend in the area of ​​tension between Christianity and paganism (= studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity. Volume 53). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-149815-2 (dissertation).
  • Orientation. Western Christianity and the Holy Land in antiquity (= Jerusalem Theological Forum. Volume 28). Aschendorff, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-402-11029-4 (habilitation thesis).
  • Xenophobia - xenophobia. Two academic speeches on interreligious encounters in late antiquity and the present, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-290-17863-5 .

As editor:

  • Olav Hanssen : Your will be done. Spiritual reflections on the Gethsemane prayer (= Münsterschwarzacher Kleinschrift. Volume 153). Edited on behalf of the Evangelical Gethsemane Monastery. Vier Türme Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2006, ISBN 978-3-87868-653-8 .
  • with Peter Gemeinhardt (ed.): Holy, Holy and Holiness in Religious Cultures of Late Antiquity (= Religious historical experiments and preparatory work. Volume 61). De Gruyter, Boston / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028391-4 .
  • with Wallraff, Martin / Huber-Rebenich, Gerlinde / Krönung, Thomas (eds.): Mirabilia urbis Romae - Miracles of the City of Rome, ed. by Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-45-130931-1 .
  • with Manuwald, Henrike (ed.): Holy texts. Forms and normative limits of transmission in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, hermeneutical studies on theology, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-156312-6

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personal data
SURNAME Heyden, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rößler, Katharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin