Contributors
Martina Aras
PhD in Systematic Theology from Paderborn University. Her areas of research include Syriac theology and Systematic theology with focus on Healing Theology.
Mor Polycarpus A. Aydin
Metropolitan of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Netherlands and visiting professor at the Master of Syriac Theology, University of Salzburg. His research areas include Syriac language and culture, biblical exegesis, liturgy, poetry, and calligraphy.
Sebastian P. Brock
Emeritus Reader in Syriac Studies, Oxford University. His main area of research is early Syriac literature, with a special interest in poetry, monastic writings and translations from Greek.
Theresia Hainthaler
Emeritus Honorary Professor for Christology of the Early Church and Theology of the Christian East at Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt am Main. Her areas of research include Patristics and Christology of the Latin, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, ecumenical theology, Syriac studies.
Andrew J. Hayes
Associate Professor of Theology and Division Dean of Liberal Studies at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. His areas of research include asceticism and spirituality in St. Ephrem and other early Syriac authors, theological poetics, and Syriac literature and theology in relation to the Quran.
Cornelia Horn
Professor of Christian Oriental and Byzantine Studies at the Oriental Institute, Social and Cultural Studies, Halle (Saale). Her areas of research include Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient, Church History and interactions between Christianity and Islam.
Robert A. Kitchen
PhD in Syriac Literature, University of Oxford. His areas of research focus on the study and translation of early Syriac ascetical and monastic texts.
Johannes Oeldemann
Roman Catholic theologian, working as director at the Johann-Adam-Moehler-Institute for Ecumenism in Paderborn. His areas of research include ecumenism, ecclesiology, and Orthodox theology.
Charbel Rizk
PhD in Comparative Theology from Paderborn University. His areas of research include Syriac Theology, Patristics and Quranic studies.
Klaus von Stosch
Schlegel-Professor for Systematic Theology at Bonn University and head of the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues. His areas of research include comparative theology, faith and reason, problem of evil, Christian theology responsive to Islam, esp. Christology, theology of the Trinity.
Holger Zellentin
Professor of Religion (Jewish Studies) at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University Tübingen. His areas of research include Classical Rabbinic Judaism, Late Antique Judaism and the Quran in Late Antiquity.