Michael Roth (theologian)

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Michael Roth (born August 21, 1968 in Marburg ) is a German theologian and professor of systematic theology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Life

After graduating from high school in Wesel in 1989, Roth studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and Bonn from 1989 to 1994 and completed his studies in Bonn in 1994 with a Magister Theologiae. In 1997, Roth received his doctorate as Dr. theol. and in 2001 the habilitation in systematic theology, both in Bonn. In 2005 he received the Hermann Sasse Prize . In 2006 Roth was appointed adjunct professor . Since 2015 he has been a full professor at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Publications

  • Why we dislike moral apostles and detest moralizing. To the distantness of ethics. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2017 (Theological Interventions 1), ISBN 978-3-17034-393-1 .
  • Free will? A theological essay on guilt and sin, self-righteousness and skeptical ethics. CMZ, Rheinbach 2012. ISBN 978-3-87062-122-3 .
  • Luckily. Faith and a successful life. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2011. ISBN 978-3-579-08124-3 .
  • Sense and taste for the finite. Reflections on the joy of creation and the joy of play. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2002. ISBN 3-374-01987-0 .
  • God in contradiction? Possibilities and limits of theological apologetics. De Gruyter, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-11-017377-8 (habilitation thesis).
  • Man as a certainty. Mainz, Aachen 1997. ISBN 3-89653-197-2 (dissertation).
  • Between the hope of salvation and the experience of fate. The basic concern of Werner Elert's theology. Mainz, Aachen, 1997. ISBN 3-89653-158-1 (partly: Master's thesis).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Religion in the past and present . 4th edition. Register, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, p. Xlviii.
  2. ↑ Subjects to be discussed and Sasse Prize , SELK-Aktuell-Archiv, June 2005, website of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church , accessed on October 10, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg