Ulrich Winkler (theologian)

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Ulrich Winkler (* 1961 in Gallneukirchen , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian theologian and religious scholar.

biography

In 1987 he became a master of theology at the University of Salzburg , after having studied in Linz and the theological year at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem . In 1995 he received his doctorate in dogmatics from the University of Salzburg summa cum laude . In 2010 he completed his habilitation and has been an associate professor there ever since. From 2016 to 2019 he was dean of the Jerusalem theological academic year. He is also co-founder and deputy head of the Center for Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions and, since 2001, head of the university course “Spiritual Theology in the Interreligious Process”. He is editor of theSalzburg Theological Journal .

Winkler is married and has two daughters.

Research priorities

Winkler's focus is on theology of religion , Israel theology , comparative theology and “postcolonial theology”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Of the value of the world. A contribution to an ecological theology of creation, 2 volumes (diss.)
  • Le Saux, Henri (Swami Abhishiktānanda), Inner Experience and Revelation. Theological essays on the encounter between Hinduism and Christianity. With an introduction by Jacques Dupuis, ed. by Christian Hackbarth-Johnson, Bettina Bäumer and Ulrich Winkler, 2005 (Salzburg Theological Studies intercultural 2)
  • Paths of theology of religion. 2009 (Habil.)
  • Children of God, pagans and children of the devil. Theology of Religion versus Theology of Israel - A New Discourse of Forgetting? In Gerhard Langer , Gregor Maria Hoff (ed.): The place of the Jewish in Christian theology. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-64769-103-9 , pp. 220-263. ( [2] on sbg.ac.at)
  • For a pneumatological theology of religion. Salzburg Theological Journal (SaThZ) 11 (2007), pp. 175–200 ( [3] on sbg.ac.at)

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Ulrich Winkler, University of Salzburg [1]
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallneukirchen , Austria