Ulrich Volp

Ulrich Volp (born November 5, 1971 in Marburg ) is a German Protestant theologian . He has been Professor of Church History at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2008 and was its Dean from 2011 to 2014 .

Life

Volp studied Protestant theology from 1990 to 1996 in Marburg , St. Andrews and Heidelberg . In 2001 he received his doctorate in Bonn after initially working as a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge in England and then as a research assistant at the University of Birmingham (also England). From 2000 to 2006 he was an assistant in the department for church history in Bonn, where he completed his habilitation in 2006 and immediately took on a substitute professorship for church history.

In 2007 he represented the professorship for church and dogma history at the University of Mainz, to which he was appointed in the same year. In 2010 the Evangelical Theological Faculty elected him vice dean, and from 2011 to 2014 he held the office of dean of the faculty. From 2012 to 2014 he was also Dean of Faculty 01 for Protestant and Catholic Theology.

In Mainz he founded the research center “Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity” together with Friedrich Wilhelm Horn and Ruben Zimmermann .

Volp is the German national correspondent of the Association Internationale d'Études Patristiques (AIEP ) and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte .

Fonts

As an author

Death and ritual in the Christian communities of antiquity (= Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Vol. 65). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2002, ISBN 90-04-12671-6 (dissertation, University of Bonn, 2000/01).
Human dignity. A contribution to anthropology in the old church (= Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae. Vol. 81). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 90-04-15448-5 (habilitation thesis, University of Bonn, 2005).
Idealization of the early church (ecclesia primitiva). In: European History Online . Edited by the Institute for European History . Mainz, October 18, 2011, urn : nbn: de: 0159-2011050958 .

As editor

with Wolfram Kinzig : God and Murder. Literary Representations of Religion in English Crime Fiction / representations of religion in English-language crime literature (= studies of the Bonn Center for Religion and Society. Vol. 3). Eron, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89913-641-8 .
with Wolfram Kinzig and Jochen Schmidt : Liturgy and ritual in the old church (= Patristic Studies. Vol. 10). Peeters, Leuven 2011, ISBN 978-90-429-2461-1 .
Makarios Magnes : Apocriticism. Critical edition with German translation (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature . Vol. 169). De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-028455-3 , doi: 10.1515 / 9783110284553 .
with Friedrich W. Horn and Ruben Zimmermann : Ethical norms of early Christianity. Good - life - body - virtue (= contexts and norms of New Testament ethics. Vol. 4). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-16-152499-8 .
with Friedrich W. Horn and Ruben Zimmermann: Metaphor - Narratio - Mimesis - Doxology. Forms of justification for early Christian and ancient ethics (= contexts and norms of New Testament ethics. Vol. 7). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-16-154050-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Prof. Dr. Ulrich Volp | Evangelical Theological Faculty. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Volp, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and professor of church history
DATE OF BIRTH	5th November 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marburg

[1] Prof. Dr. Ulrich Volp | Evangelical Theological Faculty. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .