Painted Dominik Krüger

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Malte Dominik Krüger (* 1974 in Göttingen ) is a German Protestant theologian . Since 2016 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion and Director of the Rudolf Bultmann Institute for Hermeneutics at the Department of Protestant Theology at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Painted Dominik Krüger

biography

Krüger studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen , the University of Vienna and the University of Göttingen . In 2007, he was in Tübingen due to at Eberhard Jüngel written dissertation on Schelling's later philosophy doctorate . After the vicariate and pastoral service in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover , Krüger was a research assistant at the theological faculties of the universities of Münster and Halle / Saale . Krüger completed his habilitation in Halle in 2014 and received the interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary “Christian Wolff Prize” from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Since 2016, Krüger has been Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion and Director of the Rudolf Bultmann Institute for Hermeneutics at the Department of Protestant Theology at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Research priorities

Krüger's main research areas include image and symbol theories, (Protestant) religious hermeneutics, the doctrine of the Trinity and the understanding of corporeality. Krüger argues that religion should be based on the human imagination and its (always embodied and socially mediated) imagination . In doing so, Krüger takes on the latest discoveries in cultural studies and reacts constructively and critically to the suspicion of projection in modern criticism of religion. Late modern Protestantism is understood as a critical, creative and staging-sensitive image religion. Accordingly, Krüger understands his approach as "image-hermeneutic theology". She does not want to grasp the Christian religion from an evangelical point of view just in line with what could be called “internal realism” or “symbolic pragmatism”. Rather, with the help of a hermeneutic image concept, a “liberal”, interpretative theology (of the symbol) and a “kerygmatic”, revelation-focused theology (the metaphor) should be mediated. According to Krüger, the motivation for such an approach lies in the crisis and chance of the basic evangelical signatures of scriptural and justification doctrine, which in the (late) modern age of image theory have come to a head. Then the Bible gives a "picture", i. H. a powerful impression, Jesus continues; and the belief in justification leads to an understanding of reality whose counterfactuality, as a powerful “imagination”, stimulates an existential change of perspective. (Evangelical) religion then proves its plausibility in its performance and is a lifeworld “ambivalence management” that also includes certainty. God as the epitome or symbol of wholeness and counterfactuality is anchored in the imagination and thus indirectly also in external perception, when the latter has experiences that refer to wholeness and counterfactuality. These experiences are particularly based on seeing, when people realize a never-ending horizon (wholeness) and then ask the “child in us” (Nietzsche) what comes after this horizon (counterfactuality). This does not mean that any images of God are indifferent to one another. Rather, according to Krüger, non-fictional and (merely) fictional images of God differ firstly through the criterion of historical reference (in Christianity: the person of Jesus), secondly through the criterion of traditional communication (in Christianity: sermons and sacraments) and thirdly through the criterion of (self-) critical accountability (in Christianity: theology). It must also be taken into account here that the faculties of image, language and reason cannot be separated from one another, as much as they are to be distinguished. In this respect, (Protestant) theology is a self-critical reflection of the Christian message, the insights of which cannot be fixed once and for all, neither in language nor in reason, just as the imagination or the embodied imagination can in any case - also: religiously - never be completely determined. Other religions could possibly also be understood in this line of flight; The business of Protestant theology, however, is to adhere essentially to the Christian message, as much as the look at other religions is meaningful and productive.

Memberships

  • Scientific Society for Theology
  • German Society for Philosophy of Religion
  • International Schleiermacher Society
  • Society for interdisciplinary image science

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Divine freedom. The doctrine of the Trinity in Schelling's late philosophy. Tübingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-16-149533-5
  • The other image of Christ. Late modern Protestantism as a critical image religion. Tübingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-16-154584-9
  • (together with Markus Gabriel) What is reality? New Realism and Hermeneutic Theology . Tübingen 2018. ISBN 978-3-16-156598-4

Articles / contributions (selection)

  • Criticism of reason, the idea of ​​God and the experience of time. On the topicality of Schelling with Michael Theunissen. In: Michael Theunissen. On religious-philosophical and theological topics in his thinking. Ed. V. Rudolf Langthaler / Michael Hofer , Vienna 2013, 83–112. ISBN 978-3-7003-1847-7
  • Auratic. Technology and transcendence in Walter Benjamin's art essay. In: Technology and Reality. Philosophical and theological interpretations of technology in the age of modernity. Ed. V. Anne-Maren Richter / Christian Schwarke , Stuttgart 2014, 53–69. ISBN 978-3-17-024138-1
  • Work-life balance? Protestant work ethic today. In: Religion and Politics. Historical and current constellations of an exciting network. Festschrift for Hartmut Ruddies on his 70th birthday. Ed. V. Jörg Dierken / Dirk Evers , Frankfurt a. M. 2016, 309-327. ISBN 978-3-631-70114-0
  • Musically religious. The hymn as a complex embodiment of the faculty of images. In: Public theology between sound and language. Hymns as an embodiment of religion. Ed. V. Thomas Wabel / Florian Höhne / Torben Stamer , Leipzig 2017, 69–87. ISBN 978-3-374-05111-3
  • Pannenberg as a memory theorist. A suggestion for interpretation (also) on his ecclesiology. In: Church and Kingdom of God. On the ecclesiology of Wolfhart Pannenberg. Ed. V. Gunther Wenz , Munich 2017, 181–202. ISBN 978-3-525-56032-7
  • Talking from the soul ... What pastoral care is for. Image hermeneutic considerations , in: Ways to People 71 (2019), 109–120. ISSN  0043-2040
  • How real are dreams Reflections from philosophy and theology, in: Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift 36 (2019), 51-70. ISSN  0724-6137

Editorships

Krüger is co-editor of the series Contributions to Rational Theology, founded by Falk Wagner and continued by Ulrich Barth and Jörg Dierken . In addition, Krüger is - together with Philipp David, Thomas Erne and Thomas Wabel - co-editor of the Hermeneutik und Ästhetik series.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. Accessed January 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Areas of work Malte Dominik Krüger. (No longer available online.) In: Universität Marburg / Fb 05. Universität Marburg, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 28, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uni-marburg.de  
  3. ↑ Malte Dominik Krüger, Markus Gabriel: What is Reality? New Realism and Hermeneutic Theology . Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-16-156598-4 , pp. 17–62, esp. 41–56
  4. ↑ See Krüger, Gabriel 2018, pp. 17–40.
  5. ↑ See Krüger, Gabriel 2018, p. 44.
  6. ↑ See Krüger, Gabriel 2018, p. 46f.
  7. ↑ Malte Dominik Krüger: The other picture of Christ. Late modern Protestantism as a critical image religion. Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-154584-9 , pp. 3–55. 471-537.
  8. ↑ See Krüger, Gabriel 2018, p. 56.
  9. ↑ See Krüger, Gabriel 2018, pp. 54–62.
  10. ↑ See Krüger, Gabriel 2018, pp. 41–44.
  11. ↑ See Krüger, Gabriel 2018, p. 48f. 54; Krüger, The Other Image, 471-522, esp. 510-514.
  12. ↑ Prof. Dr. Kruger. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Krüger, Malte Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen