List of Contributors
Reinhold Bernhardt
Professor emeritus for Systematic Theology Dogmatics at the University of Basel (Switzerland). Dr.theol (1989) and habilitation (1998) at the Faculty of Theology, University of Heidelberg. Bernhardt served from October 2006 to July 2008 and from August 2018 to July 2020 as the Dean of the Theological Faculty and from February 2021 to January 2024 as Dean of Studies. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Class VII: World religions) and a member of the WCC-Commission on Ecumenical Education and Formation.
He is co-editor of the series Beiträge zu einer Theologie der Religionen, Scientia & Religio and, Studien zur systematischen Theologie und Ethik. For his publications which encompases ten monographies, fifteen edited volumes and approximately 100 articles, see: https://theologie.unibas.ch/de/personen/reinhold-bernhardt/
His work focusses on dialogue, hermeneutics and theology of religions; divine action; the notion of the tragic.
Position of the Author: Emeritus Professor, University of Basel
ORCID: 0000-0003-4451-8197
Email: Reinhold.Bernhardt@unibas.ch
Universität Basel, Theologische Fakultät
Nadelberg 10
4051 Basel
Switzerland
Jakob Helmut Deibl
Jakob Helmut Deibl is Associate Professor of Religion and Aesthetics in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna and Scientific Manager of the Research Centre “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society”. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the open-access “Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society”.
Position of the Author: Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0002-7820-0569
Email: helmut.jakob.deibl@univie.ac.at
Research Centre “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society”
Faculty of Catholic Theology
University of Vienna
Schenkenstraße 8–10
1010 VIENNA
Austria
Cornelia Dockter
Cornelia Dockter is Junior Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the Faculty of Theology in Paderborn and is currently working on her habilitation in the field of sacramental theology. She completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Theology in Paderborn in 2018 with a thesis on contemporary Christological approaches in dialogue with the understanding of Jesus in the Qur’an.
Position of the Author: Junior Professor, Faculty of Theology, Paderborn
ORCID: 0009-0005-9534-7692
Email: c.dockter@thf-paderborn.de
Theologische Fakultät Paderborn
Kamp 6
33098 Paderborn
Germany
Roger Haight, SJ
Roger Haight, SJ wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Roman Catholic Modernism at the University of Chicago (1973) under David Tracy.
He taught successively at Loyola School of Theology in the Philippines, Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago, Regis College in the Toronto School of Theology, Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA, and Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Haight’s attention to fundamental issues in theology is reflected in his books on the nature of theology as a discipline, christology, ecclesiology, grace, liberation theology, spirituality, the dialogue of Christian theology with science and evolution, and racism.
A recipient of the Alumnus of the Year award from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 2006, he is a Past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and was recently awarded the John Courtney Murray Award for achievement in theology from the Catholic Theological Society of America.
Position of the Author: Emeritus Visiting Professor, Union Theological Seminary
ORCID: 0000-0003-0170-5435
Annette Langner-Pitschmann
After studying cello and theology in Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Oxford, Annette Langner-Pitschmann obtained her doctorate in philosophy of religion with a thesis on John Dewey’s theory of religion (Religiosität als Qualität des Säkularen. Die Religionstheorie John Deweys, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017). She is currently Professor of Theology in Times of Globalization at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Langner-Pitschmann is president of the German section of the European Society for Catholic Theology and a member of the board of the German Society for Philosophy of Religion. Her recent publications include Pragmatist Instrumentalism as a Paradigm of Intercultural Legal Semiotics, in: Oxford Journal of Law and Religion (Special Issue 2025); Practising Critical Responsiveness: A Task for a Global Public Theology”, in: Svensk Teologisk Kvartalsskrift 101 (4/2025).
Position of the Author: Professor of Theology in Times of Globalization, Goethe University Frankfurt
ORCID: 0000-0003-4470-3878
Email: langner-pitschmann@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Barnabas Palfrey
Barnabas Palfrey is Tutor in Christian Doctrine and Spirituality at St Augustine’s School of Theology, a Church of England ministerial training college in London and Kent in the UK. In 2014 the University of Oxford awarded his doctorate in the thought of US Roman Catholic theologian, David Tracy (1939–2025). With Andreas Telser he is co-editor of a collection of essays about David Tracy’s work, Beyond the Analogical Imagination. The Theological and Cultural Vision of David Tracy (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Position of the Author: Tutor in Christian Doctrine and Spirituality.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0653-978X
Email: B.Palfrey@staugustinescollege.ac.uk
St Augustine’s College of Theology
Malling Abbey, 52 Swan Street,
West Malling, Kent ME19 6JX
UK
Sebastian Pittl
Sebastian Pittl studied Catholic Theology, Psychology and Philosophy in Vienna and Madrid. Since 2019 he is Head of the Department of Dogmatics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen. His research interests focus on intercultural theology, inter-faith dialogue, political theologies as well as liberation and postcolonial theologies. Recent publications include Das Problem der Rekolonialisierung, in: Gmainer-Pranzl et. al. (eds.), Handbuch Interkulturelle Theologie, Heidelberg/Berlin: J.B. Metzler 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66324-0_8-1; and together with Katharina Krause: Thy Kingdom Come? Visualizing (Post)Colonial Futures in the German Southwest, in: Religions, 14 (6/2023), https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14060763.
Position of the Autor: Akademischer Rat
ORCID: 0000-0003-0597-1220
Email: sebastian.pittl@uni-tuebingen.de
Department of Dogmatics
Faculty of Catholic Theology
University of Tübingen
Liebermeisterstraße 18
72076 Tübingen
Germany
Michael Quisinsky
Michael Quisinsky is a professor of systematic theology and its didactics at the University of Education in Karlsruhe, Germany. He also serves as editor-in-chief of “ET-Studies”, the journal of the European Association for Catholic Theology. Prior to teaching in Karlsruhe, he was a professor for systematic theology at the Catholic University of Freiburg. He studied theology and French language and literature in Freiburg, Tübingen and Paris earning a doctorate for his dissertation on Marie-Dominique Chenu, Yves Congar and Henri-Marie Féret. His main research interests include Vatican II and the relationship between dogma and pastoral care, ecclesiology and christology.
Position of the Author: Professor of Systematic Theology
ORCID: 0009-0005-9325-1929
Email: michael.quisinsky@ph-karlsruhe.de
Institute for Catholic Theology
University of Education
Bismarckstr. 10
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany
Andreas Telser
Andreas Telser studied film and theology in Boston and Chicago. After a Ph.D. at the Catholic Private University of Linz on the theology of David Tracy, he served as assistant professor in Systematic Theology for a few years there. His research interests focus on public theology, secularization theory, the relation between state and religion(s), theological anthropology and plant studies.
Position of the Author: Post-doc Researcher
ORCID: 0000-0002-2543-0926
Email: andreas.telser@univie.ac.at
Research Centre “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society”
Faculty of Catholic Theology
University of Vienna
Schenkenstraße 8–10
1010 VIENNA
Austria
Sibylle Trawöger
Sibylle Trawöger studied bio- and environmental engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Wels and at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and Catholic theology and religious education at the University in Linz. She researched and taught at the Universities in Linz, Würzburg and Graz and currently at the RWTH Aachen University. Her research focuses on science and theology in dialogue, theology of creation, theological anthropology and the dialogue between systematic theology and spirituality.
Position of the Author: Vertretungsprofessorin
ORCID: 0009-0000-3208-0146
Email: sibylle.trawoeger@kt.rwth-aachen.de
Institute for Catholic Theology
RWTH Aachen University
Theaterplatz 14
52062 Aachen
Germany
Jefferson Zeferino
Jefferson Zeferino is an Associate Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Religious Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUC-Campinas, Brazil). His research focuses mainly on Public Theology and the History of Protestantism in Brazil. He is the author of sixty texts published as book chapters or articles in peer-reviewed journals. His most recent book, co-authored with Rudolf von Sinner, was published in 2024 under the title “Teologia Pública: História, Fundamentos e Perspectivas” (in English – “Public Theology: History, Foundations, and Perspectives”). He serves in the editorial team of the International Journal of Public Theology (BRILL) and Reflexão – Journal of Religious Studies (PUC-Campinas). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Network for Public Theology as a Representative for South America.
Position of the Author: Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0002-5376-4587
Email: jefferson.zeferino@puc-campinas.edu.br
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Religião (Postgraduate Program in Religious Studies)
Escola de Ciências Humanas, Jurídicas e Sociais (School of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences)
PUC-Campinas
Rua Professor Doutor Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini, 1516 | Pq. Rural Fazenda Santa Cândida, Campinas – São Paulo
CEP: 13087-571
Brasil