Torsten Meireis

Torsten Meireis (born May 8, 1964 in Wiesbaden ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Career

From 1983 to 1985 Meireis studied Protestant theology, social sciences and philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , from 1985 to 1987 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he worked as a research assistant with Klaus Baltzer , and from 1987 until 1990 at the Ruprecht-Karls-University . In 1990 he passed the first theological examination before the examination board of the EKHN . During his doctoral studies (1990–1993) in Heidelberg with Wolfgang Huber as a doctoral scholarship holder of the Hessian Luther Foundation, he taught at the Theological Convict in Frankfurt am Main. After the Rigorosum exam , he received his doctorate from the Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University in 1994 with the grade summa cum laude . At the same time, he was vicar from 1993 and pastor in Frankfurt am Main from 1996.

Meireis used his work as a research assistant at the University of Münster from 2000 to write a habilitation thesis on work and fulfillment. Protestant ethics in the upheaval of the working society . In 2007 he became a lecturer and school priest at the Pedagogical Academy Elisabethenstift in Darmstadt . From 2010 to 2016 he taught as an associate professor for systematic theology / ethics at the theological faculty of the University of Bern . Since 2016 he has been professor of systematic theology with a focus on ethics and hermeneutics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and is director of the Berlin Institute for Public Theology . Here he is responsible for a. the Werner Reihlen lecture and is Ephorus of the Johanneum Foundation .

His research focuses and interests are ethics of sustainability (sustainability and development, cultural sustainability), ethics of the social (welfare state comparison, questions of distributive justice), business ethics (digitization of the economy, ethics of work), political ethics (religion and democracy, neo-nationalism ), Peace ethics (just peace, theory of legal violence) and medical and nursing ethics (justice in health care, nursing ethics).

Web links

• Humboldt University of Berlin