Ulrike Link-Wieczorek

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Ulrike Link-Wieczorek (born Ulrike Link , born February 20, 1955 in Rotenburg an der Wümme ) is a German Protestant theologian for systematic theology and religious education .

Life

After graduating from high school, Ulrike Link-Wieczorek did a traineeship with Westfälische Nachrichten before studying Protestant theology, German and Russian at the universities of Mainz , Frankfurt and Munich . In Mainz she graduated in 1981 with the first state examination for teaching . Until 1989 she worked as a research assistant at the universities in Mainz and Heidelberg . During this time they carried out research stays in Kenya and South Korea . The doctorateat the University of Heidelberg in 1989. From 1989 to 1996 Link-Wieczorek was a research assistant in Heidelberg, where she qualified as a professor in 1996 .

Link-Wieczorek has held the professorship for systematic theology and religious education at the University of Oldenburg since 1997 . Her work focuses on the complexes of religious language , de-traditionalization and ecumenism . In 2006 she was appointed to the Faith and Order Commission. Since 2013 she has been chairwoman of the Society for Evangelical Theology .

Link-Wieczorek has been married to the prehistorian, theologian and museum director Alfried Wieczorek since 1979 , with whom she has two daughters and lives in Mannheim-Feudenheim .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Speaking of God in Africa and Asia. Presentation and interpretation of African theology in comparison with the Korean Minjung theology (research on systematic and ecumenical theology 60), Göttingen 1991.
  • Incarnation or Inspiration? Basic Christological Issues in Discussion with British Anglican Theology (Research on Systematic and Ecumenical Theology 84), Göttingen 1998.
  • (together with Ralf Miggelbrink, Dorothea Sattler, Michael Haspel, Uwe Swarat and Heinrich Bedford-Strohm ) Asking about God in life. Ecumenical introduction to Christianity , Gütersloh 2004.

Editorships

  • (together with Reinhold Bernhardt ) Metaphor and Reality. On the logic of imagery in speaking about God, man and nature. Dietrich Ritschl on his 70th birthday , Göttingen 1998.
  • Polish impressions. Ecumenical-theological questions in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall (supplements to the Ecumenical Review 69), Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • (together with Wolfgang Weiß) In dubio pro deo? Inquiries to Christianity. A lecture series by the Institute for Protestant Theology and Religious Education at the University of Oldenburg (Forum Religionsphilosophie 6), Münster et al. 2004.
  • (in accordance with Britta Konz) Vision and responsibility. Festschrift for Ilse Meseberg-Haubold (Theologie 63), Münster et al. 2004.
  • Houses without windows? To understand Christian exclusivity statements. Contributions from the German-Polish ecumenical movement (supplements to the Ökumenische Rundschau 77), Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • (together with Fernando Enns and Martin Hailer) Distinguished ecumenism. Remaining important and now urgent. Festschrift for Dietrich Ritschl (supplements to the Ökumenische Rundschau 84), Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • (together with Ivana Noble and Peter de Mey) Religious ties - reflected on. Ecumenical responses to changes in religiosity in Europe / Reimagining religious belonging. Ecumenical responses to changing religiosity in Europe (supplements to the Ökumenische Rundschau 90), Leipzig 2011.
  • Kingdom of God and shaping the world. Considerations for a theology in the 21st century , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2013.
  • Entangled in guilt, trapped in shame? New perspectives on sin, redemption and reconciliation , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2015.
  • (together with Veronika Hoffmann and Christof Mandry) The gift. On the status of the interdisciplinary discussion (Scientia & religio 14), Freiburg im Breisgau / Munich 2016.
  • (in accordance with Uwe Swarat) The question about God today. Ecumenical impulses for a conversation with the "New Atheism". A study by the German Ecumenical Study Committee (DÖSTA) (Supplements to the Ecumenical Review 111), Leipzig 2017.
  • (together with Michael Kappes, Sabine Pemsel-Maier and Oliver Schuegraf) Basiswissen Ökumene , Vol. 1: Ecumenical Development - Focal Points - Practice , Leipzig 2017, Vol. 2: Workbook with materials , Leipzig 2018.
  • Co-editor and editor of the Ökumenische Rundschau .

Festschrift

  • Encounters - responses. Contributions to the modern question of God, contextual theology and ecumenism. Festgabe for Ulrike Link-Wieczorek on the occasion of his 60th birthday (supplements to the Ecumenical Review 102), ed. by Johanna Rahner and Andrea Strübind, Leipzig 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Link-Wieczorek : Vita
personal data
SURNAME Link-Wieczorek, Ulrike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Link, Ulrike (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, professor for systematic theology and religious education
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg (Wümme)