Renate Kirchhoff

Renate Kirchhoff (* 1960 in Göttingen ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Kirchhoff studied Protestant theology and education at the universities of Göttingen , Heidelberg and Tübingen . In Heidelberg she also worked as a research assistant in the Faculty of Theology.

The Vicar time and professional early years spent Kirchhoff after their promotion, which she completed in Heidelberg, from 1992 in Frankfurt am Main ; after six years she moved to the chair for biblical theology at the University of Augsburg , where she worked as a scholarship holder and academic assistant. In 2005 she was appointed professor for New Testament and Diaconal Studies at the Evangelical University of Freiburg . Three years later she became dean of the department. Kirchhoff has been the rector of the university since 2015.

Kirchhoff’s research and publications focus on a. feminist and gender topics as well as "Pauline anthropology" and the topic "Church and prostitution".

Publications (selection)

• 1994: Sin against one's own body . Göttingen, 227 pp., ISBN 3-525-53372-1
• 1999: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs . On techniques of male power exercise, in: L. Schottroff u. M.-T. Wacker (Ed.): Compendium of feminist biblical interpretation , Gütersloh, pp. 474–482
• 2005: (with Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, ed.) Christology in Relation to Life , Göttingen. 240 pp., ISBN 978-3-525-56958-0
• 2006: Translation and introduction of the letter of James for the "Bible in Righteous Language"
• 2008: (with Hartmut Rupp, ed.) Religious and philosophical education . Basics for studying early childhood education, materials for early childhood education, Freiburg. 208 pp., ISBN 978-3-932650-28-4

Web links

• Web presence on the EH Freiburg website
• Publications