Bernd Wannenwetsch (MA, Dr. theol., Dr. theol. habil.)

 

was appointed by the faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford as University Lecturer in Ethics in 2000. Besides lecturing and supervising graduate students, he also tutors undergraduate students and serves as teaching representative of the Theology faculty.

 

His research focuses on conceptual problems in Christian ethics, tradition and Postmodernism, scriptural ethics, worship, politics, labour and work, the relationship of the sexes, and the theologies of Martin Luther and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

 

He is co-editor of the international series: Ethik im theologischen Diskurs - Ethics in Theological Discourse (LIT-Verlag)

 

Bernd Wannenwetsch (born 1959) studied Theology at the Universities of Munich and Erlangen from 1979 until 1985 and worked thereafter as an ordained minister of the Lutheran Church of Bavaria. After being awarded a research scholarship from his Church for three years, he received his doctorate degree as Dr. theol. from the University of Erlangen (summa cum laude) in 1992. A subsequent two year’s scholarship awarded by the Deutsche Forschungs­ge­meinschaft enabled him to undertake extended research visits to the United States and Britain (Durham).

 

In 1995 he was appointed as University Lecturer at the Theological Faculty of Erlangen, achieved a second, higher doctorate (Dr. theol. habilis) and was subsequently given the title Privatdozent.

 

Between 1997 and 2000 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to become Visiting Professor at Duke University in North Carolina, he held a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a Deputy Professorship for Systematic Theology at the University of Mainz.

 

 

Record of Teaching

 

Selected Publications (see complete listing):

 

Books:

 

Die Freiheit der Ehe. Das Zusammenleben von Frau und Mann in der Wahr­nehmung evangelischer Ethik; Evangelium und Ethik 2; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener 1993, 243 pp

 

Gottesdienst als Lebensform - Ethik für Christenbürger; Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln, Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1997, 366 pp.

 

(forthcoming) Worship Ethics. Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics; trans. Margaret Kohl; Oxford University Press, 2002, ca. 270 pp.

 

(forthcoming) Was tun wir, wenn wir arbeiten? Kleine Theologie der Arbeit; Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln, Mainz: Kohlhammer, 2003, 136 pp.

 

 

 

Articles (in English):

 

The Political Worship of the Church. A Critical and Empowering Practice, Modern Theology 12 (1996) pp. 269-299

 

Communication as Transformation: Worship and the Media; Studies in Christian Ethics13 (2000) pp. 93-106

 

„Intrinsically Evil Acts“; or: Why Euthanasia and Abortion Cannot be Justified; in: Ecumenical Ventures in Ethics. Protestants Engage Pope John Paul II’s Moral Encyc­li­cals; ed. by R. Hütter and T. Dieter, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1998, 185-215

 

Old Docetism – New Moralism? Questioning a New Direction in the Homosexuality Debate; in: Modern Theology 16 (2000), pp. 353-364

 

 

 

Most recent (In the process of being printed):

 

Luther’s Moral Theology. Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther; ed. by D. McKim; Cambridge, New York, Melbourne 2002

 

Members of One Another. Charis, Ministry and Representation. A politico-ecclesial reading of Romans 12. In: A Royal Priesthood. The Use of the Bible Ethically and Politically, ed. by G. Bartholomew et al., Carlisle, Grand Rapids: Paternoster and Zondervan 2002

 

Liturgy as Politics – Politics as Liturgy; Blackwell Companion to Political Theology; ed. by W. Cavanaugh and P. Scott, Oxford: Blackwells, 2002