Ulrich Barth

Ulrich Barth (born September 14, 1945 in Karlsruhe ) is a German Protestant theologian , religious philosopher and university professor.

Career

After studying church music , theology and philosophy in Karlsruhe , Heidelberg and Göttingen , Barth received his doctorate in Göttingen in 1982 . His most important teachers were the theologian Hans-Walter Schütte and the philosopher Wolfgang Wieland . In 1990 he completed his habilitation . He then worked as a DFG employee at the Schleiermacher Research Center in Kiel and later provided assistants in Munich and Mainz. From 1992–1993 he held a visiting professorship in Hamburg before he was appointed to the chair for dogmatics and religious philosophy at the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 1993 . Barth was a founding member of the Schleiermacher Society, which was founded in 1996 and was its first chairman until 2012. Since his retirement in 2010, he has been a senior professor at the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin .

His research interests include philosophy and theology of the Enlightenment , German idealism , philosophy of religion and - sociology , History of Modern Theology, Religion in the Modern , philosophy of science , dogmatism.

Since the 1970s he has also held a position as organist and cantor at St. Albani in Göttingen. Barth lives in Halle (Saale) . Since 2005 he has also been the Ephorus of the Silesian Konvikt in Halle (Saale).

Works (selection)

• Christianity and self-awareness . - Attempt of a rational reconstruction of the systematic connection of Schleiermacher's subjectivity-theoretical interpretation of the Christian religion. Göttingen 1983 (dissertation)
• The Christology of Emanuel Hirsch . - A systematic and problem-historical presentation of your historical methodological, epistemological and subjectivity-theoretical foundations. De Gruyter Mouton Verlag, Berlin / New York 1992 (Habilitation) ISBN 978-3-11-012894-9
• Religion in the Modern Age , Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2003 ISBN 978-3-16-147916-8
• Enlightened Protestantism , Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2004 ISBN 978-3-16-148321-9
• God as a project of reason , Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2005 ISBN 978-3-16-148693-7
• Critical religious discourse , Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2014 ISBN 978-3-16-153118-7

Web links

• Homepage of Barth at the MLU Halle

Literature on Barth

• Dieter Henrich : Religion and Philosophy - Final Thoughts - Meaning of Life. Three attempts to answer questions from Ulrich Barth , in: Dietrich Korsch / Jörg Dierken (eds.): Subjectivity in Context, Tübingen 2004, 211–231
• Jörg Dierken: Freedom in its entirety. On Ulrich Barth's theory of religion and Protestantism , in: Roderich Barth / Claus-Dieter Osthövener / Arnulf von Scheliha (eds.): Protestantism between Enlightenment and Modernism, FS Ulrich Barth, Frankfurt a. M. 2005, 435-449
• Dieter Henrich: To Ulrich Barth. How is subjectivity to be understood? , in: Self-Confidence and God Thought. A Vienna Symposium with Dieter Henrich on Philosophical Theology , ed. v. R. Langthaler / M. Hofer, Wiener Jahrbuch für Philosophie, Vol. 40 (2008), 54–80
• Michael Moxter: Reason Within the Limits of Religion. More recent drafts of the philosophy of religion , in: Philosophische Rundschau 54 (2007), 3–30, esp. 4–20
• Roderich Barth / Andreas Kubik / Arnulf von Scheliha : Experience and Interpretation. Dogmatic reflections following Ulrich Barth , Tübingen 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich Barth: Christianity and self-consciousness . Attempt at a rational reconstruction of the systematic connection between Schleiermacher's subjectivity-theoretical interpretation of the Christian religion, Göttingen 1983, 5.
2. ↑ Ulrich Barth: Religion in der Moderne , Tübingen 2003, IV.
3. ↑ Homepage of the Schleiermacher Society: http://schleiermacher-gesellschaft.theologie.uni-halle.de/de/startseite.html , last visited on August 26, 2013
4. ↑ Homepage of the Network of Excellence “Enlightenment - Religion - Knowledge”: http://www.exzellenz-netzwerk-arw.uni-halle.de/haben/barth.htm , last visited on August 27, 2013