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Professor Johannes Hoff PD, Habil, PhD, MA, Dipl.Theol. (Tübingen), BA (Philosophy), BA (Theology) (Tübingen/Bonn)

Contact Details

School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies
Tel: 01570 424954 (4954)
E-mail: j.hoff@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Location

Sheikh Khalifa Building



Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Professor of Systematic and Philosophical Theology



Role in the University

Teaching, Supervision, Administration, Research, Course Coordinator of the MTh in Christian Theology (includes the former MTh in Systematic and Philosophical Theology)

Background

  • PhD, Habilitation
  • 10 years teaching experience as Privatdozent/Assistant Professor for Fundamental Theology at the Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät of the University of Tübingen (Germany)


Member of

  • Professorial Board of the Katholisch-Theologischer Fakultät der Universität Tübin-gen
  • Deutsche Cusanus Gesellschaft
  • Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain
  • American Academy of Religion  
  • German Catholic Cooperation for Dogmatics and Fundamental Theology
  • Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Media of Transcendence’ at the Catholic Acad-emy in Berlin
  • Ecumenical observer of the Anglican “Church in Wales Doctrinal Commission”
  • Editorial Board Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy, Politics (international peer reviewed journal)
  • Editorial Board SYNESIS (forthcoming journal of theology and philosophy
  • Editorial board Studia Traditionis Theologiae (Brepols Publishers)
  • Peer Reviewer of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)  
  • Peer Reviewer for the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)  

Academic Interests

My current research is focused the ‘analogical turn’ of Anglophone theology in the wake of Henri de Lubac, the return of apophatic theology in post-modernity, and the investigation of similar upheaval experiences in the Early Renaissance (15th century) and Early Romanticism (18/19th century). Related to these topics is my research on performativity and the sacramental ontologies of Nicholas of Cusa, Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine und Dionysius the Areopagite. This research has feed and still feeds in my collaboration with representatives of contemporary art (Christoph Schlingensief,  Venice Biennale, Bayreuth Festival, IRWIN/NSK, et al.) and related academic and non-academic publications. Forthcoming publications include: “The Analogical Turn. Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa” (Eerdmans, 2012) “Performance-Künstler Gottes. Glaube, Vernunft, Kultur” (Kohlhammer, 2012) and (together with Dr. Casiday) a translation of Hugo Ball’s “Das Byzantinische Christentum” (1927). My areas of interest include:

  • Ressourcement, Faith and Reason
  • Continental modern theology (especially Wolfhart Pannenberg, Karl Barth, Maurice Blondel, Henri de Lubac, Karl Rahner and Joseph Ratzinger)
  • Radical Orthodoxy
  • Theology and philosophy in pre-modernity (especially Augustine, Dionysius the Areopagite, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Anselm of Canterbury, and Thomas Aquinas)
  • Philosophy and mysticism (especially Gregory of Nyssa, Nicholas of Cusa, Meister Eckhart)
  • Religion, aesthetics and art
  • Immanuel Kant and the Copernican turn of modern theology
  • Theology, German idealism and early romanticism (especially: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, and Novalis)
  • Apophatic theology and the modern critique of religion (especially Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Ernst Bloch, and Walter Benjamin)
  • Theology, hermeneutics and religious language (especially Søren Kierkegaard, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Lévinas, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Hilary Putnam)
  • Apophatic theology and the late modern criticism of scientific reason (especially Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Michel de Certeau)
  • Religion, politics and power (especially Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Giorgio Agamben)
  • Critical Theory/Frankfurt School (especially Jürgen Habermas, Theodor W. Adorno)
  • Postmodernity and deconstruction (especially Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard)

 Areas of Research

  • Ressourcement / Radical Orthodoxy
  • Postmodernity
  • Art and Cult
  • Philosophy of subjectivity
  • Basic problems of theological and philosophical hermeneutics
  • The philosophical mystics of the late Middle Ages


Publications

 

Forthcoming Books

  • The Analogical Turn. Re-thinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa. Series ‘Interventions’, Eerdmans Publishing Company 2013.
  • Performance-Künstler Gottes. Glaube, Vernunft, Kultur. Kohlhammer: Stuttgart 2013 (not yet definitely agreed)

Books

Edited Volumes

  • Modern Believing, Special Issue: German Theology in Contemporary Society, Guest editor Dr. Johannes Hoff, Vol. 50:1 (January 2009).

  • Lexikon der theologischen Werke, ed. byMichael Eckert, Eilert Herms, Eberhard Jüngel, Bernd Jochen Hilberath, Stuttgart: Kröner 2003 (co-edited).

  • Wann ist der Mensch tot? Organverpflanzung und ‘Hirntod’- Kriterium. Mit einem Geleitwort von Bundestagspräsidentin Rita Süssmuth, Reinbek: Rowohlt 21995 (ext. ed., 11994) (with Jürgen in der Schmitten) (When is a Person Dead? Brain Death and Organ Transplantation; Scientific Book of the Year 1994 in Germany).

Articles

Forthcoming

  • Mysticism, Ecclesiology and the Body of Christ. Certeau’s (Mis-)Reading of Corpus Mysticum and the Legacy of Henri de Lubac, in: Inego Bocken (Ed.): Michel de Certeau (2012) (forthcoming).
  • Mystagogy beyond Onto-Theology. Looking back to Post-modernity with Nicholas of Cusa, in: Moritz, Arne (Ed.): A Companion to Nicholas of Cusa, Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, Leiden 2013 (100 pages; forthcoming)

2012

  • Nikolaus von Kues (1401-1464). In: Hoff, G. M.; Körtner, U. H. J. (Ed.), Arbetisbuch Theologiegeschichte. Diskurse. Akteure. Wissensformen Bd. 1. 2.-15. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2012, 359-378
  • Bürger, Künstler, Exorzisten. Wissenschaft, Kunst und Kult in den Spuren Hugo Balls, in: Kultur & Gespenster 13 (2012), 33-62 http://www.textem.de/2349.0.html

 2011

 2010

2009

  • Der Heilige Augustinus. Über die Erfindung des abendländischen Christentums in Afrika, in: DIE ZEIT Nr. 53 (‚Schlingensiefs Feuilleton’), 22/12/2009, 30-32, http://www.zeit.de/2009/53/Schlingensief-Christentum?page=all  

  • „I think the church is wonderful“. Zur Genealogie des Paradigmenwechsels gegenwärtiger Theologie. Michel Foucault zum 25. Todestag. In: Internationale Katholische Zeitschrift- "Communio" (2009), 428-435 (see also MFThK (2009), http://www.theologie-und-kirche.de/hoff-foucault.pdf).

  • Das Paradox des Glaubens und der Holzweg moderner Entscheidungslogik. Kierkegaards Lektüre von Genesis 22 und ihre Wirkungsgeschichte von Heidegger bis Derrida und darüber hinaus. In: Hoping, H.; Knop, Julia ; Böhm, Thomas (Ed): Die Bindung Isaaks. Stimme, Schrift, Bild, Paderborn: Schöningh 2009, 238-258. (The Paradox of Faith and the Dead End of the Modern Logic of Decision Making: Kierkegaard’s reading of Genesis 22 and its History of Reception from Heidegger to Derrida and beyond).

  • German Theology in Contemporary Society. In: Modern Believing (Special Issue, ed. by Johannes Hoff) 50/1 (2009), 2-12 (http://www.modchurchunion.org/publications/mb/jan2009/index.htm).

2008

  • Rev. Adams, Nicholas: Habermas and theology. In: Modern Believing 49:2 (2008), 53-54.

  • Praeambula fidei. Glauben und Wissen im Spannungsfeld kultureller Praktiken des 'Glaubenmachens'. In: Lachmann, R.; Strätling, S.; Nicolosi, R. (Ed.), Rhetorik als kulturelle Praxis, München: Fink 2008, 113-130 (Faith and Knowledge in the Light of Cultural Practices of ‘Make-Believe’).

2007

  • Berührungspunkte. Ein Trialog zwischen Jacques Derrida, Nikolaus von Kues und Michel de Certeau, in: Füssel, Marian (ed.): Michel de Certeau, Konstanz: Uvk Verlagsgesellschaft 2007, 317-342 (Points of Tangency. A Trialogue between Jacques Derrida, Nicholas of Cusa and Michel de Certeau).

  • Ethik zwischen Begründungsforderung und Paradoxalisierung. Zu einem anstehenden philosophisch-theologischen Neueinsatz. In: Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 54 (2007), 781-787 (Ethics between Reason and Paradox: A New Philosophical and Theological Approach).

  • Die sich selbst zurücknehmende Inszenierung von Reden und Schweigen. Zur mystagogischen Rhetorik des Nikolaus von Kues. In: Meyer, Holt; Uffelmann, Dirk; edd.: Religion und Rhetorik. Entwicklungen und Paradoxien ihrer unvermeidlichen Allianz, Religionswissenschaft heute, Stuttgart 2007 (The Withdrawal of the Self in Speaking and Keeping Silence. An Introduction to the Mystagogical Rhetoric of Nicholas of Cusa), 222-236.

2006

2005

  • Auf schwankendem Boden. Sakrales und Profanes angesichts der spätmodernen Krise der Religion. In: zur debatte (1/2005), 19a-21d (On Shaky Ground. The Sacral and the Profane in the Face of the Late Modern Crisis of Religion).

  • Philosophie als performative Praktik. Spuren cusanischen Denkens bei Jacques Derrida und Michel de Certeau. In: Harald Schwaetzer; Klaus Reinhardt; edd.: Cusanus-Rezeption in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Regensburg: Roderer 2005, 93-120 (Philosophy as a Performative Practice. Traces of Nicholas of Cusa in Jacques Derrida and Michel de Certeau).

  • Das Subjekt entsichern. Zur spirituellen Dimension des Subjektproblems ange­sichts der Dekonstruktion des cartesianischen Wissenschaftsparadigmas. In: Heinrich Schmidinger; Michael Zichy; edd.: Tod des Subjekts? Poststrukturalis­mus und christliches Denken. Salzburger theologische Studien 24, Innsbruck – Wien: Tyrolia 2005, 213-242 (To Release the Subject. The Spiritual Dimension of Subjectivity in the Face of the Deconstruction of Cartesianism).

  • Ist die Ökumene ein dogmatisches Problem? Die successio apostolica und die Grenzen theologischer Glaubenshermeneutik. In: Theologie und Glaube 95 (2005), 91-101 (Is Ecumenism a Problem of Dogmatics? The Apostolic Succession as a Borderline Case of Theological Hermeneutics).

2004

  • Dekonstruktive Metaphysik. Der Beitrag der Dekonstruktion zu Erschließung des Archivs negativer Theologie. In: Peter Zeillinger; Matthias Flatscher; edd.: Kreuzungen Jacques Derridas. Geistergespräche zwischen Philosophie und Theologie, Wien: Turia & Kant 2004, 138-168 (Deconstructive Metaphysics. The Contribution of Deconstruction to the Recovery of Negative Theology).

2003

  • Die Vision des Weltgerichts. Annäherungen an die 'Apokalypse' ausgehend von Derridas Lektüre der Offenbarung des Johannes. In: Moog-Grünewald, M. / Lobsien, V. O.; edd.: Apokalypse. Der Anfang im Ende, Heidelberg: Winter 2003, 15-36 (The Vision of the Last Judgement. Approaches to the Apocalypse starting from Derrida’s Reading of the Revelation of John).

  • Theologie nach dem Ende der 'Postmoderne'. Die Bedeutung Michel Foucaults für die diskursanalytische Grundlegung des Glaubens. In: Christian Bauer; Michael Hölzl; edd.: Gottes und des Menschen Tod? Die Theologie vor der Herausfor­de­rung Michel Foucaults, Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag 2003, 79-104 (Theology after ‘Postmodernity’. The Significance of Michel Foucault for the Discourse Analysis of Christian Faith).

  • Book review: Meddeb, Abdelwahab, Die Krankheit des Islam: Theologische Quartalschrift 183 (2003), 183f. (Islam and Its Discontents)

  • Articles. In: Lexikon der theologischen Werke:

  • Byzantinisches Christentum (Hugo Ball), 64f.

  • La fable mystique (Michel de Certeau), 308f.

  • Geist in Welt (Karl Rahner), 326f.

  • Phänomenologie und Theologie (Martin Heidegger), 565.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: Christ und Gegenwart (Alfred Delp), 104f.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: De Ecclesia Christi (Carolus Passaglia), 159f.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: De Immaculato Deiparae semper Virginis Conceptu ... Com­men­tarius (Carolus Passaglia), 170.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: Le Mystère du salut des nations – Le Mystère de l’Avent –

  • Essai sur le Mystère de l’histoire (Jean Daniélou), 518f.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: La Parole de Dieu (Marie-Dominique Chenu), 548f.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: Philosophie du Christianisme (Louis-Eugène-Marie Bautain), 568f.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: Pour une Théologie du Travail (Marie-Dominique Chenu), 581-583.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: Praelectiones Theologicae quas in Coll. Rom. S.I. habebat (Ioannes Perrone), 583f.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: Les saints ‘paiens’ de l’Ancien Testament (Jean Daniélou).

  • In: Lexikon der theologischen Werke, 641f.

  • Hoff/ Neufeld: Vraie et fausse Réforme dans l’Église (Yves Congar), 800f.

2002

  • Fundamentaltheologische Implikationen der Apokalyptik. Annäherung an den Begriff der Offenbarung ausgehend von Derridas dekonstruktiver Lektüre der Apokalypse des Johannes (2 parts). In: Theologie der Gegenwart 45/46 (2002), 42-51, 107-120 (Fundamental Theological Implications of Apocalyptic Literature. An Approach to the Concept of Revelation starting from Derrida’s Reading of the Revelation of John).

  • Fundamentaltheologie im Gespräch. Philosophische Konturen einer ökumenischen Kontroverse am Beispiel Peter Dabrocks. In: Theologie der Gegenwart 45 (2002), 68-73 (Fundamental Theology under Consideration. The Philosophical Shapes of an Ecumenical Controversy with Respect to Peter Dabrock).

  • Book review: Thurner, Martin: Der Ursprung des Denkens bei Heraklit. In: Theologische Quartalschrift 182 (2002), 58f.

  • Book review: Thurner, Martin: Gott als das offenbare Geheimnis nach Nikolaus von Kues. In: Theologische Quartalschrift 182 (2002), 59f.

2001

  • Amare tuum est videre tuum. Gottesbild und Spiritualität zwischen Tradition und Fremd­heits­erfahrung. In: Schmidinger, H. (ed.): Geist, Erfahrung, Leben. Spiri­tu­alität heute, Innsbruck: Tyrolia-Verlag 2001, 207-244 (God-image and Spirituality between Tradition and Estrange­ment).

  • Fundamentaltheologie zwischen Dekonstruktion und erstphilosophischer Reflexion. Zur Ortsbestimmung theonomer Vernunftautonomie. In: Valentin, J. / Wendel, S.; edd.: Unbedingtes Verstehen?! Fundamentaltheologie zwischen Erstphilo­so­phie und Hermeneutik, Regensburg: Pustet 2001, 115-129 (Fundamental Theology between the Poles of Deconstruction and First Philosophy. Locating the Theonomy of Autonomous Rationality).

  • Book review: Slavoj Žižek: Der nie aufgehende Rest. Ein Versuch über Schelling und die damit zusammenhängenden Gegenstände. In: Theologische Quartal­schrift 181 (2001), 344-346.

  • Book review: Slavoj Žižek: Das fragile Absolute. Warum es sich lohnt, das christl­iche Erbe zu verteidigen. In: Theologische Quartalschrift 181 (2001), 346-347.

2000

  • Das Verschwinden des Körpers. Eine Kritik an der ‘Wut des Verstehens’ in der Liturgie. In: Herder Korrespondenz 54 (2000), 149a-155b (The Vanishing of the Body in Liturgy. A Criticism of the ‘Raging Will to Understand’ in Contemporary Liturgy).

1999

  • Erosion der Gottesrede und christliche Spiritualität. Antworten von Michel Foucault und Michel de Certeau im Vergleich (3 Teile). In: ORIENTIERUNG 63 (1999), 116a-119b, 130a-132b, 135a-137b (The Erosion of ‘Speaking of God’ and the Future of Christian Spirituality: A Comparison of the Responses of Michel Foucault and Michel de Certeau).

1998

  • Die Frage nach den Grenzen des medizinischen Zuständigkeitsbereichs. In: Höglin­ger, Günter, Kleinert, Stefan: Hirntod und Organtrans­plan­tation, Berlin - New York: De Gruyter 1998, 65-72 (The Borders of Medical Competence).

1996

  • Leben und Tod zwischen Biologismus und Metaphysik. In: LebensBilder – LebensLügen. Leben und Sterben im Zeitalter der Biomedizin, Hamburg: Verlag Libertäre Assoziation 1996, 59-76 (Life and Death between Biologism and Metaphysics).

1995

  • Hoff/in der Schmitten: Hirntote Patienten sind sterbende Menschen.In: Universitas 4 (1995), 328-342 (Brain-dead Patients are Dying Persons).

  • Vom ‘Sitz des Bewußt­seins’. Die ethischen Folgen einer ana­tomischen Metapher. In: Ethik & Unter­richt 3 (1995), 17-24 (‚Locating Consciousness’. The Ethical Consequences of an Anatomical Metaphor).

  • Intellektualität und Katholizismus. In: Cusanercorrespondenz 1 (1995), 2a-5c (Intellectuality and Catholicism).

  • Hoff/in der Schmitten: Contra: Hirntote Männer sind zeugungs-, hirntote Frauen empfängnisfähig. In: DIE WOCHE, 28. April 1995, 27 (Contra: Brain-dead Men are Procreative, Brain-dead Women too).

  • Das ‘Hirntodkriterium’ und die Achtung vor der Unverletzlichkeit des Anderen. In: Organspende. Aber: Wann ist der Mensch tot? Herrenalber Protokolle 102, Bad Boll: Akademie Baden 1994, 43-60 (short version in: Held, Wilfried (ed.): Transplantation: Spenden und Empfangen. Materialien für den Dienst in der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen, Bielefeld 1995, 86-96) (The Brain-death Criterion and the Respect for the Inviolability of the Other).

1994

  • Von der Herr­schaft über das Leben. Zur Kri­tik der medizini­schen Vernunft. In: Wann ist der Mensch tot? In: Hoff/in der Schmitten; ed.: Wann ist der Mensch tot? Organverpflanzung und ‘Hirntod’- Kriterium, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1994, 270-331 (Concerning the Power over Life and Death. A Critique of Medical Reason).

  • Hoff/in der Schmitten: Kritik der ‘Hirntod’-Konzeption. Plädoyer für ein menschen­würdiges Todeskri­terium. In: Wann ist der Mensch tot? In: Hoff/in der Schmit­ten; edd.: Wann ist der Mensch tot? Organverpflanzung und ‘Hirntod’- Kriterium, Reinbek: Rowohlt 1994, 153-251 (A Critic of the Brain-death Criterion. Plea for a Human Criterion of Death).

  • Hoff/in der Schmitten: Lebenszeichen. In: DIE ZEIT Nr. 30, 22. Juli 1994, 24 (Signs of Life).

  • Hoff/in der Schmitten: Das eigene Sterben ist unverletzlich. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 261, 12./13. November 1994 (Gesellschaft und Familie V) (The Personal Dying is Inviolable).

  • Hoff/in der Schmitten: Entgegnung auf Prof. U. Körner: Hirntod und Organtran­splantation – die umstrittene Verfügung über das Sterben. In: Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung 88 (1994), 629-631 (Reply to Prof. U. Körner: Brain-death and Organ Transplantation – the Controversial Power of Disposal over Dying Persons).

1993

  • Hoff/in der Schmitten: Organspende – nur über meine Leiche? in: DIE ZEIT Nr. 7, 12. Februar 1993 (Themen der Zeit), 40

1992

  • Hoff/in der Schmitten: TOT? in: DIE ZEIT Nr. 47, 13. November 1992 (Themen der Zeit ), 56.

Guest Lectures and Active Participations in Conferences

(German lecture and conference titles in translation. Until 2006 the lectures and papers were mostly delivered in German)

2010

  • Bürger, Künstler, Exorzisten. Kunst und Kult in den Spuren Hugo Balls. “Samposion Kunst oder Kult?” in St. Moritz under direction of Bazon Brock

  • Response to Karen Kliby “Gender and ‘the nuptial’ in Balthasar’s theology”

    Symposium in honour of Fergus Kerr, OP, at the University of Nottingham

  • Evil. Basic Problems of Theological Anthropology.

    Guest Lecture at the Westfälischen Wilhems-Universität Münster (Germany)

  • Identity – Difference – Analogy: The Actuality of Summa Theologica q. 13. Guest Lecture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany)

2009

  • On Jesus Prayer – Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa – On Postmodernity. Lecture series in Seoul funded by the Global Mission Church of Bundang (South Korea).

  • Reflexive Modernisation and the Impact of Religious Responses to the Experience of Social Displacement. Conference ‘Something’s Missing: Modernity and the Return of Religion’ of the Ernst Bloch Centre of the University of Sheffield

  • The Rise and Fall of the Kantian Paradigm of Modern Theology. Visiting lecture at the Edinburgh University Divinity School.

  • Beyond Beautiful Appearance. Aesthetic Abstraction and the Return of Ontological Realism in Anglo-Saxon Theology. International study day about ‘Art and Religion’ in occasion of the exhibition ‘Abbild’ of Hanns Kunitzberger (Wien) at the Haus am Dom and the ‘Museum für Moderne Kunst’ (MMK) in Frankfurt am Main.

2008  

  • Kierkegaard and Derrida on Gen 22. International Conference ‘The Sacrifice of Abraham: Voice, Scripture, Image. Interdisciplinary and Interreligious Approaches’ at the University of Freiburg i. Br.

  • Religious Experience and the Concept of Transcendence in Schleier­macher, Kierkegaard and Luhmann. Public lecture in connection with the lecture series ‘Religious experience’ of the University of Wales, Lampeter

  • Self-revelation as Principle of Christian Theology? Critical Considerations on Modern Responses to the Conundrum of Faith and Reason. International Conference ‘The Grandeur of Reason. Religion, Tradition and Universalism’ in Rome (Italy)

2007  

  • What happened on the 25th of March? A Fundamental-Ontological Reading of Mary. International Conference on Mariology at the University of Wales, Lampeter

  • The Self-Revelation of God in Modernity. A Retrospective View on a Dead End of Modern Theology. Public lecture on research projects at the University of Wales, Lampeter

2006       

  • DAS UNSICHTBARE SEHEN (To See the Invisible/the Invisible View). Mystagogy between the Late Middle Ages and Late Modernity. Public inaugural lecture at the Catholic Theology Faculty of the University of Tübingen on the 9th November 2006.

  • Conflict Liturgy: How many Explanations Does the Eucharist Tolerate? Lecture and discussion within the scope of the public lecture series ‘FACT: Theology in Conflict’ of the Catholic Theology Faculty of the University of Tübingen

  • Revelation: A Basic Concept of Contemporary Theology? Four Theses Concerning the End of a Theological Paradigm. Habilitation-lecture delivered to the ‘Professorium’ of the Catholic Theology Faculty of the University of Tübingen

2005  

  • Leadership of the section Mirror/Speculation of the international interdisciplinary conference ‘Can Thinking Paint? Philosophy and Painting in the Renaissance’ of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung in Hildesheim

  • Faith and Knowledge in the Light of Cultural Practices of ‚Make-Believe’. Christian Orthodoxy and the Borderlines of Human Rationality. Lecture on the occasion of the international conference ‘Rhetoric as Cultural Practice’ under the direction of the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literary Sciences (FU Berlin) and the Department of Literary Sciences/Slawistics (University Konstanz) in Berlin

  • The Beauty of Humility and the Self-Withdrawing of God. On the Displacement of the Invisible in the Late Middle Ages and Late Modernity. Lecture within the colloquium ‘The Finiteness and the Nothingness. Romano Guardini and the Arts’ under direction of the Guardini-Stiftung in Berlin

  • True and Deceptive Appearances. Iconoclastic Dimensions of Orthodox Symbolic Practices according to Nicholas of Cusa, Michel de Certeau and Jacques Lacan. Lecture within the scholarly symposium ‘Popular Religiosity and Wild Topics of Religion as a Challenge for Theology and Religious Studies ‘ at the University of Potsdam

2004  

  • Theology and Power. Lecture in connection with an autonomous seminar on Michel Foucault of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen

  • The Sacred and the Profane in the View of the Postmodern Crisis of Religion. Lecture within the conference ‘The Postmodern Provocation. Church in a Pluralistic Society’ at the Catholic Academy of Bavaria

  • Traces of Nicholas of Cusa in Jacques Derrida and Michel de Certeau. Lecture within the series ‘The Reception of Nicholas of Cusa in the Philosophy of the 20th Century’ under direction of the Cusanus Society (University of Trier)

  • The Withdrawal of the Self in Speaking and Keeping Silence in Nicholas of Cusa. Lecture within the conference ‘Religion and Rhetoric. Developments and Paradoxes of their Inevitable Alliance’ at the University of Erfurt

2003  

  • Conflicts in the Ecumenical Movement: The Ecclesiastical Office and the Apostolic Succession. Lecture and discussion within the scope of the public lecture series ‘FACT: Theology in Conflict‘ of the Tübingen Catholic Theology Faculty

  • The Fragile Transcendence of Images. The Actuality of Cusanus’  Mystagogical Practice in Using Pictures. Lecture within the international research symposium ‘The Presence of Images. A Symposium on Science and the Politics of Ideas in the Intersection of the Anthro­pology of Images, Ethnology und Theology of Art’ in the Villa Vigoni (Italien), directed by Eckhard Nordhofen

  • Deconstructive Metaphysics. The Contribution of Deconstruction to the Recovery of the Tradition of Negative Theology. Lecture within the research symposium ‘Interpretations of Jacques Derrida in the German language Area – a Philosophical-Theological Workshop’ at the University of Vienna

  • The Vanishing of the Body in Liturgy. Lecture at the ‘Kathedralforum’ in Dresden

  • Fides et Ratio. Fundamental Theology between the Poles of First Philosophy and Decon­struc­tion. Visiting lecture at the Catholic Theology Faculty of the University Fribourg (Switzerland)

2002  

  • Theology after Postmodernity. The Significance of Michel Foucault for the Discourse Analysis of Christian Faith. Lecture within the symposium ‘Michel Foucault’ of the ‘Cusanuswerk’ in Bonn

  • Universalism, Tradition and Innovation in Nicholas of Cusa. Lecture within the interdisciplinary ‘Graduier­tenkolleg’ [graduate research group] ‘Ars et Scientia in Middle Ages and Modernity’ of the University of Tübingen

2001  

  • The Limitations of Christian Anthropocentrism. Problems in Locating the ‘Speaking of God’. Lecture within the symposium ‘Funda­mental Theology between Hermeneutics and Philosophy’ of the Univer­sity of Freiburg i. Br.

  • Amare tuum est videre tuum. The God-image and Spirituality at the Background of Tradition and Estrangement. Lectures within the annual ‘Salzburger Hochschulwochen’ (Austria)

2000

  • Invitation to the PubliForum Transplantation Medicin by the Schweizer Wissenschaftsrat [Swiss Board of Science]

  • The Vision of the Last Judgment. Lecture within the interdis­ciplinary symposium ‘Apokalypse – the Beginning in the End’ of the ‘Graduiertenkolleg [graduate research group] Pragmatisierung/Entpragmatisierung’ of the University of Tübingen

  • The Discreet Logic of Gestures. Acceleration and Retardation in Liturgy. Lecture at the Academy of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

  • The Mystery of the Unconscious and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis. An Introduction to Jacques Lacans Philosophical Interpretation of Sigmund Freud. Lecture within the conference ‘The Hidden Edifice of the Soul’ at the Academy of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

1998

  • Erosion of  ‘Speaking of God’ and the Future of Christian Spirituality. Lecture within the symposium ‘Culture, Mysticism and Christianity. Thinking on Unpaved Ways with Michel de Certeau’ at the Academy of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

1997

  • Ethics and Death. Visiting lecture at the University for Technology, Economy and Culture in Leipzig

1996

  • The Limits of Medical Responsibility. Lecture within the ‘Studium Generale’ of the University of Würzburg. Series ‘Ethical Problems in Connection with Organ Transplantation’

1995  

  • Life and Death between Biologism and Metaphysics. Public lecture within the ‘Studium Generale’ of the University of Tübin­gen. Series ‘Life-images – Life-lies? The Changes of Life due to the Cultural and Social Consequences of Medicine and Bio­tech­nology’

1994  

  • Intellectuality and Catholicism. Lecture within the ‘92. Deutschen Katholikentag’ in Dresden  

  • Philosophical Aspects of Brain Death. Lecture on the occasion of a research symposium about brain death of the Protestant Academy of Iserlohn

  • Theses Towards the End of Personal Life. Statement on the occasion of an international research symposium about organ transplantation of the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Bonn

1993  

  • The Brain Death Criterion and the Respect for the Inviolability of the Other. Lecture within the conference ‘Organ-transplantation. But: When is a Person Dead?’ at the Protestant Academy of Baden

  • Brain Death and Organ Transplantation. Expert statement at the hearing of the ‘SPD-Bundestagsfraktion’ [the Social Democratic Party ] concerning the 1995/1997 transplant act in Bonn

  • The Dignity of Man and the Decline in Values. Expert statement to the ‘CDU-Grundsatzkommission’ in Bonn [Standing Committee on Fundamental Positions of the Christian Democratic Party]

  • Pregnancy after Death? Expert statement at the hearing of the SPD-Bundestagsfraktion in Bonn