Markus Mühling

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Markus Mühling (born December 27, 1969 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a Protestant theologian and since October 2018 Professor of Systematic Theology at the Wuppertal / Bethel University of Applied Sciences with a focus on the doctrine of the Trinity and God , eschatology and soteriology .

Life

Markus Mühling studied Protestant theology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, where he received his doctorate in 2000 with a thesis on the subject of God is love. Studies on the understanding of love as a model of trinitarian speech from God and qualified as a professor at Heidelberg University in 2005 on the subject of reconciling action - action in reconciliation. God's sacrifice to people . After his vicariate (2004–2007) in the Evangelical Church in Baden , he was awarded the Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Research Foundation and from 2009 to 2010 was a visiting professor at King's College (Aberdeen). From 2011 to 2018 he was Professor of Systematic Theology and Scientific Culture Dialogue at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Since October 2018 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the Wuppertal / Bethel University of Applied Sciences . In addition, Markus Mühling has been a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI, Princeton) since 2013, where he conducted research on the subject of Evolution and Human Nature as part of an interdisciplinary research group . Since 2014 he has been the chairman of the Karl Heim Society and series editor of Religion, Theology and Natural Sciences (RThN) of the Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht publishing house .

Research priorities

One of Mühling's main contributions is his systematic design to understand God in a relational model of the Trinitarian love relationship and to propose a soteriological model. In addition, he worked extensively on the non-empirical prerequisites of Albert Einstein's scientific work as well as on theological perspectives on the neurosciences and recent trends in evolutionary theory . He also wrote textbooks for the areas of ethics and eschatology.

Mühling's approach can be characterized as a work on the modeling and differentiation of an ontology of narrative relationality that focuses on constitutive processual relations. His conviction that interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary understanding is of great importance both for understanding existential and ontological issues and for successful coexistence in society appears to be central.

Mühling understands God as an open, eternal and dramatic relationship between the three trinitarian relations of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. On this basis, God creates, preserves, justifies and completes the world in resonance with God's own inner-divine relationality, which is in the process of becoming. In particular, the concept of resonance can be understood here as a point of correlation between scientific and theological approaches, at which Mühling shows that in the Christian faith the presence of God can be perceived in accordance with phenomenological approaches of neuroscience. Mühling also regards more recent developments in the theory of evolution (e.g. the theory of niche construction ) as having a connection to the modeling of theological anthropology .

In the first volume of his main work, Post-Systematic Theology , Mühling develops a narrative ontology on the phenomenal basis of "taking true values". Classic concepts such as time, space, causality, dramatic coherence, truth etc. are narrative based and lead to a concept of revelation as perception of truth in the medium of the gospel. From here, classic topics of theological introductory questions (faith, historicity and sacred scriptures, the scientific nature of theology) are redefined. Mühling fundamentally understands being as a dynamic-relational becoming, which is subject to the alternative of location orientation and path orientation. In the former, target or location points define the becoming, so that the actual movement can only be understood functionally. In path orientation, on the other hand, there are no final goals, only provisional goals that are constantly revised during the process of becoming. The location orientation is used as an abstraction and z. T. Understand the distortion of the route orientation. The paradigm of this path-oriented becoming is the trinitarian God himself, who forms the integration of all moving perspectives under the particular moving perspective of Jesus Christ.

Bibliography (selection)

  • God is love. Studies to understand love as a model of the trinitarian speech of God (= Marburg Theological Studies 58). NG Elwert, Marburg 2000; 2nd revised edition 2005 ISBN 3-7708-1272-7 .
  • God and the world in Narnia. A theological orientation on CS Lewis' “The King of Narnia” . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-60422-9 .
  • Reconciling action - action in reconciliation. God's sacrifice to man (= research on systematic and ecumenical theology 107). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005. ISBN 978-3-525-56335-9 .
  • Basic information eschatology. Systematic theology from the perspective of hope . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8252-2918-4 .
  • Einstein and religion. The interrelationship between religious and ideological contents and the formation of scientific theories of Albert Einstein in his development, religion, theology and natural science 23 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-56989-4 .
  • Systematic theology: ethics. A Christian theology of preferable action . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3748-6 .
  • Love story god. Systematic theology in concept . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-56406-6 .
  • Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology. Evolutionary Niche Construction, the Ecological Brain and Relational Narrative Theology (= RThN 29). Göttingen - Bristol (CT) 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-57036-4 .
  • Post-Systematic Theology I. Paths of Thought - A Theological Philosophy . Brill - W. Fink, Leiden - Paderborn 2020, ISBN 978-3-7705-6530-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Mühling - Biography Website of Prof. Dr. Markus Mühling. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ Markus Mühling: God is love. Studies to understand love as a model of the trinitarian speech of God (= Marburg Theological Studies 58). NG Elwert, Marburg 2000; 2nd revised edition 2005, pp. 296–332.
  3. ↑ Markus Mühling: Reconciling Action - Action in Reconciliation. God's sacrifice to man (= research on systematic and ecumenical theology 107). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, pp. 292–356.
  4. ↑ Markus Mühling: Love story God. Systematic theology in concept . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, pp. 17–20.
  5. ↑ Markus Mühling: Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology. Evolutionary Niche Construction, the Ecological Brain and Relational Narrative Theology (= RThN 29). Göttingen - Bristol (CT) 2014, pp. 13–35.
  6. ↑ Markus Mühling: Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology. Evolutionary Niche Construction, the Ecological Brain and Relational Narrative Theology (= RThN 29). Göttingen - Bristol (CT) 2014, pp. 165–196.
  7. ↑ Markus Mühling: Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology. Evolutionary Niche Construction, the Ecological Brain and Relational Narrative Theology (= RThN 29). Göttingen - Bristol (CT) 2014, pp. 86-136.
  8. ↑ Markus Mühling: Resonances: Neurobiology, Evolution and Theology. Evolutionary Niche Construction, the Ecological Brain and Relational Narrative Theology (= RThN 29). Göttingen - Bristol (CT) 2014, pp. 205–221.
  9. ↑ Cf. Markus Mühling, Post-Systematic Theologie I , Brill - W. Fink, Leiden - Paderborn 2020, 549-575.
  10. ↑ Cf. Markus Mühling, Post-Systematic Theology I , Brill - W. Fink, Leiden - Paderborn 2020, 123–154.
  11. ↑ See Markus Mühling, Post-Systematic Theology I , Brill - W. Fink, Leiden - Paderborn 2020, 542-547
personal data
SURNAME Mühling, Markus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mühling Schlapkohl, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main