current courses
ST 2022:
Lecture: Eschatology: A Sense for the Possibility of the Good
Colloquium: Symbols of Christianity. On Ulrich Barth's Dogmatics
complete list of courses taught
ST – spring term
FT – fall term
(Senior)Assistent to the Chair for Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zurich. 2006-2013
ST 2007:
Undergraduate course: Analytische Religionsphilosophie (with Dr A. Hunziker)
ST 2008:
Undergraduate course: Analytische Religionsphilosophie
FT 2008:
Undergraduate course: David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Undergraduate course: Analytische Religionsphilosophie
Tutorial: George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine
ST 2009:
[research stay in Claremont, California]
FT 2009:
Undergraduate course: Metaphern und Religiöse Rede
ST 2010:
Undergraduate course: Kreuz und Auferstehung
FT 2010:
Tutorial: Grundtexte der Dogmatik
ST 2011:
Undergraduate course: Phänomenologisch-hermeneutische Religionsphilosophie
Tutorial: John D. Caputo, Radical Hermeneutics
FT 2011:
Undergraduate course: (Post)Analytische Religionsphilosophie
Tutorial: Matthias Jung, Erfahrung und Religion
ST 2012:
[research stay at Oxford]
FT 2012:
Undergraduate course: Atheistisch an Gott glauben
ST 2013:
Lecture: Phänomenologisch-hermeneutische Religionsphilosophie
Tutorial: Zur Religionsphilosophie von Gianni Vattimo
Fixed-term full professorship for Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics, Christians-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. 2013-2014
FT 2013/14:
Lecture: Einführung in die theologische Ethik: Probleme – Ansätze – Perspektiven
Graduate seminar: Trutz Rendtorff, Ethik
Graduate seminar: Aufgaben und Grenzen Politischer Theologie
Research seminar: Spinoza, Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata
ST 2014:
Lecture: Christliche Friedensethik. Ansätze – Probleme – Perspektiven (three hours course)
Graduate seminar: Pazifismus und Christentum. Szenen einer Ehe
Graduate seminar: Ethik mit und nach Wittgenstein
Graduate seminar: Säkularisierung. Eine These und ihr Scheitern
Research seminar: Neuere Texte zur Religionsdiagnostik (with Prof. H. Rosenau)
FT 2014:
[research stay at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena]
Associate Professor for Systematic Theology and Deputy Director of the Collegium Helveticum. ETH & Uniersity of Zurich (2014-2019)
ST 2015:
ETH summer school. Topic: Reproduzierbar. Probleme, Chancen, Grenzen. Cortona/Tuscany, Italy
FT 2015:
Graduate Seminar: Säkularisierung und Säkularisierungskritik. Zur Architektur einer Debatte
Graduate Seminar: Kollektiver Konstruktivismus. Wissenschaftstheorie und-soziologie im Werk von Ludwik Fleck
ST 2016:
Lecture: Eschatology. On the Very Last Things
Graduate Seminar: Tacit Knowing. Zur Theorie der Wissenschaften bei Michael Polanyi
Master course: Religion and the Global South. ZRWP master class (Blockseminar, with C. Hoffmann & al.)
FT 2017:
Graduate Seminar: Depeche Mode. Zur Hermeneutik und Religionsphilosophie von Jacob Taubes
Graduate Seminar: Das Parlament der Dinge. Zur Wissenschaftssoziologie von Bruno Latour
Seminar: Worldviews in Conflict (with W. Stahel and C. aus der Au)
ST 2017:
Lecture: The Doctrine of Trinity
Graduate Seminar: Experimentieren. Zur Praxis wissenschaftlichen Forschens
Master Course: On the Question of Secularisation, 8.-10. May 2017 (with M. Huppenbauer and J. Köhrsen)
FT 2017
Lecture: Introduction into Dogmatics
Graduate Seminar: Cybernetics. The Renaissance of a almost Forgotten Project
ST 2018:
[research stay at the Philosophy Department, UC Berkeley]
FT 2018:
Research Seminar: Theory and Ethics of Comparing
Graduate Seminar: Believing and Hoping
ST 2019:
Lecture: Theology and Revolution. An Unexpected Couple
Graduate Seminar: What is a Revolution?
FT 2019:
Graduate Seminar: Orthodoxy and Heresy
Professor and Heisenberg Scholar at the Faculty of Theology at Humboldt-University Berlin (since January 2020)
ST 2020:
Graduate Seminar: Believing in God Atheistically
Block course (2-5 Juni 19): Understanding and Explaining. Basic Problems in Hermeneutics (U of Zurich)
FT 2020/21:
Graduate Seminar: Theology of Emotions
Repititorium: Dogmatics (together with the Seminar for ST)
ST 2020:
Graduate Seminar: Believing in God Atheistically
Block course (2-5 Juni 19): Understanding and Explaining. Basic Problems in Hermeneutics (University of Zurich)
FT 2020/21:
Graduate Seminar: Theology of Emotions
Repetitorium: Dogmatics (together with the Seminar for ST)
ST 2021:
Graduate Seminar: A Theology of Hope
Block Seminar: Faith and (De)Motivation
FT 2021/22:
Graduate Seminar: Faith and Trust
Repetitorium: Dogmatik (together with the Seminar for ST)