Silke-Petra Bergjan

Silke-Petra Bergjan (* 1962 ) is a Swiss Protestant church historian . She is Professor of Church History at the University of Zurich .

Life

After studying Protestant theology in Bethel , Zurich , Jerusalem and Munich , she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Church History at the Protestant theological faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the work Theodoret von Cyrus and Neunicänismus. Aspects of the old church doctrine of the Trinity. Doctorate in 1992 . From 1991 to 1993 she was a staff member of the Faith and Order Commission of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Geneva . She was a research assistant from 1993 to 1999 at the Institute for Early Christianity and Antiquity at the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin , where she worked with the work Der vorsorgliche Gott. The concept of the Pronoia of God in the Greek apologetic literature of the ancient Church. was habilitated . As a visiting fellow / visiting scholar, she conducted research from 1999 to 2000 at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Religion / St Edmund's College , University of Cambridge . From 2000 to 2003 she was an assistant professor and since 2003 she has been an associate professor for the history of churches and theology (From the Old Church to the Reformation) at the theological faculty of the University of Zurich . Silke-Petra Bergjan lives in Zurich with her husband and two children. She researches theology and philosophy in late antiquity, the history of culture and mentalities in the 4th / 5th. Century and church historiography in the early modern period.

Publications (selection)

• Theodoret of Cyrus and Neo-Romanism. Aspects of the ancient church doctrine of the Trinity (= work on church history. Volume 60). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013955-3 (dissertation).
• The caring God. The concept of ΠΡΟΝΟΙΑ God in the apologetic literature of the early church (= work on church history. Volume 81). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-017062-0 (habilitation thesis).
• with Karla Pollmann (ed.): Patristic tradition and intellectual paradigms in the 17th Century (= Late Middle Ages, Humanism, Reformation. Volume 52). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150581-2 .
• with Beat Näf (ed.): The veneration of martyrs in early Christianity. Testimonies and cultural effects (= paths to historical science. Volume 52). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-024142-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Silke-Petra Bergjan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae and list of publications by Silke Bergjan