Saskia Wendel

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Saskia Wendel (born October 6, 1964 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German Catholic theologian , religious philosopher and currently professor of systematic theology at the Institute for Catholic Theology of the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Cologne .

Life

Saskia Wendel studied Catholic theology (diploma), philosophy and German studies (both state exams) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br. And the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . After graduating in theology and state examination in philosophy, she received her doctorate in philosophy in 1996 with a thesis on Jean-François Lyotard's concept of ethics. After a teaching position at the University of Kassel , Wendel was a research assistant at the seminar for basic philosophical questions in theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Münster from 1996 to 2001 , where she studied Catholic theology in 2001 with a paper on the connection between subject philosophy and Deutscher Mystik habilitated and received the Venia Legendi for fundamental theology and philosophy of religion. From 2001 to 2003, in addition to a visiting professorship at the Institute for Christian Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck in 2002, she was a professor for the philosophy of religion and fundamental theology at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Münster, before becoming professor for systematic philosophy, religious philosophy and fundamental theology from 2003 to 2006 taught at the Faculty of Theology in Tilburg (Netherlands). After a further guest professorship for dogmatics at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna in 2007 and a position as a fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt from 2007 to 2008, Saskia Wendel has held the chair for systematic theology at the Institute for Catholic Theology since October 2008 of the University of Cologne.

Research priorities

  • Religiosity and Religion in the Late Modern Age
  • Problem of justification of the Christian faith
  • Philosophical / theological doctrine of God
  • Philosophical / theological anthropology
  • Christian mysticism and modernity
  • "Gender" and Religion

Current research projects

  • 1) Homo Religiosus? To link religiosity and self-confidence
  • 2) Incarnated subject. Anthropology of corporeality
  • 3) “Body of Christ” - gender-theoretical deconstruction of a central theological term
  • 4) Freedom as a key theological category. An examination of libertarianism , determinism and compatibilism

Fonts

  • Jean-François Lyotard. Aesthetic ethos. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7705-3256-2 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 1996: Aisthetic Ethos. ).
  • Affective and incarnated. Approaches to German mysticism as a subject-theoretical challenge (= Ratio fidei. Vol. 15). Pustet, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7917-1824-X (also: Münster, Univ., Habil.-Schr.).
  • Introductory Feminist Ethics. Junius, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-88506-374-3 .
  • Christian mysticism. An introduction (= Topos plus pocket books , vol. 527 positions ). Pustet, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3-7867-8527-9 .
  • Philosophy of religion (= Reclam-Taschenbuch , No. 20333 Basic Knowledge Philosophy ). Reclam, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-020333-0 .
  • Reading the Body of Christ. A gender theoretical relecture . Edited together with Aurica Nutt, Schöningh, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 973-506-7849 2-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c University of Cologne: Saskia Wendel
personal data
SURNAME Wendel, Saskia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein