Ingolf U. Dalferth

Ingolf U. Dalferth (* 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a German religious philosopher and Protestant theologian. He is regarded as a methodological commuters between analytical philosophy, hermeneutics and phenomenology, and is a recognized expert in issues of contemporary philosophy of religion and philosophy orientation.

From 1998 to 2012 Dalferth was director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich. Since 2007 he is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in California. He is the editor of the Theological Literature Newspaper ( Leipzig ) and of Religion in Philosophy and Theology (Tübingen).

Biography

Ingolf U. Dalferth studied in Tübingen, Edinburgh, Vienna and Cambridge theology, philosophy and linguistics. After doctoral and post-doctoral in theology at Tübingen University, he held various positions as a study inspector at the Protestant pin Tübingen, as a lecturer in Durham and as a professor in Tübingen, Uppsala and Frankfurt. From 1995 to 2013 he was professor of systematic theology, symbolism and philosophy of religion at the University of Zurich. In the years 2005 and 2006, he was awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen.

Work

The focus of research activity by Ingolf U. Dalferth are Christological, ecclesiological and methodological issues of Systematic Theology, Philosophy of Religion ( Analytical philosophy of religion, phenomenology ), semiotics and hermeneutics ( theory of signs, language processes, forms of understanding ) as well as church and ecumenical ( Anglican ). His work area includes several different functions within the Swiss and German Church and in the ecumenical movement.

Bibliography (selection)

  • The contingency of evil, in that evil. Three Approaches, ed. of the Research Institute of Philosophy Hannover, Freiburg 2011 ( next to the contributions of Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the question of the origin of evil, and Navid Kermani, Islamic interpretations of mischief in the world ), pp. 9-52. ISBN 978-3-451-34057-4
  • Radical theology. Faith in the 21st century. Evangelical publishing house, Leipzig, 2010. ISBN 978-3-374-02786-6
  • Malum. Theological Hermeneutics of evil, Tübingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-16-149447-5
  • Bible in language appropriate? Criticism of a failed attempt. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-16-149448-2
  • Evil. Essay on the cultural way of thinking of the incomprehensible. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2006. ISBN 978-3-16-149031-6
  • Suffering and evil. From the difficulties of dealing with Widersinnigem. Evangelical Verlansanstalt, Leipzig, 2006. ISBN 978-3-374-02411-7
  • Becoming Present. An Inquiry into the Christian Sense of the Presence of God, Leuven / Paris / Dudley, 2006.
  • Protestant theology as an interpretation practice. A systematic orientation, Leipzig, 2004. ISBN 978-3-374-02120-8
  • The reality of the possible. Hermeneutic philosophy of religion, Tübingen 2003.
  • On the path of ecumenism. The Community of Protestant and Anglican churches after the Meissen Agreement, Leipzig 2002. ISBN 978-3-374-01949-6
  • Interpreted presence. For the fulfillment of God in the experience of time, Tübingen 1997.
  • The resurrected crucified. For the grammar of Christology. Mohr, Tübingen, 1994. ISBN 3-16-146296-3
  • Beyond myth and logos. The Christological transformation of theology, Freiburg, inter alia, In 1993.
  • God. Philosophical- theological thought experiments, Tübingen 1992.
  • Combinatorial theology. Problems of theological rationality. QD 130, Herder, Freiburg, inter alia, In 1991. ISBN 3-451-02130-7
  • Theology and Philosophy, Oxford 1988.
  • Existence of God and the Christian faith. Sketches for an eschatological ontology, Munich 1984.
  • Religious talk of God, Studies on Analytical Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Munich 1981.
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