Wolfgang Achtner

Wolfgang Achtner ( * 1957 in Weyer ( Villmar ), district Limburg ) is a German theologian. He is considered a forerunner of the dialogue between science and religion in Germany.

Life

Achtner dealt during his study of theology at the universities of Mainz, Göttingen and Heidelberg, with the areas of Systematic Theology and the Old Testament. His dissertation focused on the dialogue between science and religion in the work of the Scottish theologian Thomas F. Torrance. After his PhD, he was awarded a research scholarship for one year at the University of Heidelberg. During this time he translated his work dimensions of time ... in the English language.

During his time as pastor of a church in Mainz Achtner earned another master's degree in mathematics. During his sabbatical in the years 1999 to 2000 he was at Princeton Theological Seninar the Presbyterian Church ( USA) in Princeton (New Jersey). Since 2000 Achtner is pastor of the Protestant Student Community at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and lecturer. At the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, he is also Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology.

Achtner won a scholarship to The John Templeton Seminars on Science and Christianity. He is a member of the Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain in Arnoldshain in the Taunus.

Works (selection)

• Stefan Kunz and Thomas Walter: dimensions of time: The time structures of God, the world and man. University Press, Darmstadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-534-24803-2.
• Free will in theology and neuroscience. A historical and systematic guide. University Press, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23508-7.
• From recognition to action: The dynamic between humans and nature in the late Middle Ages as a precondition for the emergence of scientific rationality. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-56983-2.
• Artificial intelligence and human person. Elwert Verlag, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-7708-1289-1. (Marburg Theological Studies, Volume 91 )
• God, mind, brain: Religious experiences in the light of the latest brain research. Haag master, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-89846-356-7. (Volume 133 of the Arnoldshainerstraße texts)
• With Stefan Kunz and Thomas Walter: dimensions of time: The time structures of God, the world and man. Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-89678-078-6. Translated into English by Achtner: Dimensions of Time: The Structures of the Time of Humans, of the World and of God. WB Erdmann Publishers, Cambridge (England) 2002, ISBN 0-8028-4998-9.