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Scholars Involved 

Prof. Pierre Buehler, Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Emidio Campi, Professor of Swiss Reformation Studies

Prof. Thomas Krüger, Professor of Old Testament Studies

Prof. Mike Martin, Professor of Gerontopsychology

Prof. Konrad Schmid, Professor of Old Testament Studies

Prof. C. Uehlinger, Professor of History of Religions

Prof. Samuel Vollenweider, Professor of New Testament Studies

Prof. Pierre Buehler

Professor of Systematic Theology

Institut für Hermeneutik und Religionsphilosophie
Kirchgasse 9
8001 Zürich, Switzerland

Phone: 0041 (0) 44 634 47 52
Fax 0041 (0) 44 634 49 91

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Homepage: http://www.uzh.ch/hermes/buehler/

Teaching Profile

Systematic theology (especially dogmatics, occasionally ethics); hermeneutics and philosophy of religion

Research Profile

Theological and philosophical hermeneutics; Kierkegaard; Luther; Ricoeur; Ebeling; theology and literature; text and image; interdisciplinarity (especially theology and philosophy)

Selected Publications

Kreuz und Eschatologie: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit der politischen Theologie, im Anschluss an Luthers theologia crucis. Tübingen, Mohr, 1981.

(ed. with J.-F. Habermacher) La narration: Quand le récit devient communication. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1988.

(ed. with C. Karakash) Science et foi font système: Une approche herméneutique. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1992.

(ed. with Cl. Karakash) Quand interpréter c’est changer: Pragmatique et lectures de la Parole. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1995.

Synodes. Etranger, étrangers. Supplement to Nr. 6/98 von Information évangélisation. Paris, 1998.

Prédestination et Providence. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1999.

Ablass oder Rechtfertigung durch Glauben. Was brauchen wir zum Jubiläumsjahr 2000? Zurich: Pano Verlag, 2000 (French: Le protestantisme contre les indulgences. Pour un Jubilé de la justification par la foi. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 2000-2002).

(ed. with I. Graesslé and C. D. Müller) Unterwegs zu neuen Horizonten. Gleichgeschlechtlichkeit : Überlegungen und Gesprächsanstösse zu den Stellungnahmen der Evangelischen Kirchen in der Schweiz. Berg a. Irchel: KiK-Verlag, 2001 (French: P. Bühler / I. Grässlé/C. Müller (eds.) Qui a peur des homosexuelles?  Discussions autour des prises de position des Églises protestantes de Suisse. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 2001).

(ed. with A. Mauz), Gerhard Ebeling, Mein theologischer Weg. Hermeneutische Blätter, Sonderheft Oktober 2006. Zürich: Institut für Hermeneutik und Religionsphilosophie, 2006

Prof. Emidio Campi

Theologisches Seminar
Universität Zürich      
Kirchgasse 9
8001 Zürich, Switzerland

or:
Hirslanderstr. 30
8032 Zürich, Switzerland

Homepage: http://www.theologie.uzh.ch/faecher/kirchengeschichte/emidio-campi.html

Research Profile

Reformation history of Switzerland and the Roman countries, Confessionalisation and cultural history in early modern times, history of the ecumenical movement.

Co-editor "Peter Martyr Library," Member of the editorship committee of the corpus Reformatorum Italicorum; Co-editor of the new edition of the Reformed confessional writings; Scientific adviser and staff at the Johann Amos Comenius edition; member of the editorial committee of the "Library of Classical Protestant Theological texts," publisher of the theological works of Heinrich Bullinger. 

Selected Publications

(ed. with J. McLelland) Peter Martyr Vermigli, Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Kirksville, Missouri:Truman State University Press, 2006.

(ed. with Detlef Roth and Peter Stotz) Bullinger Schriften. Vols. 1-7. Zürich: TVZ, 2004-2006.

(ed. with Bruce Gorden) The Architect of the Reformation. An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 2004.

(ed.) Heinrich Bullinger und seine Zeit. Eine Vorlesungsreihe. Zürich: TVZ, 2004.

(ed.) Ticino e Protestanti. Locarno: Dadò, 2004.

(ed. with Hans Ulrich Bächtold and Ralph Weingarten) Der Nachfolger. Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575). Katalog zur Ausstellung im Grossmünster Zürich, 11. Juni - 17. Oktober 2004. Zürich: TVZ, 2004.

(ed.) Peter Martyr Vermigli. Humanism, Republicanism, Reformation. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2002.

(ed. with Pierre Bühler and Hans Jürgen Luibl) Freiheit im Bekenntnis: Das Glaubensbekenntnis der Kirche in theologischer Perspektive. Zürich: Pano Verlag, 2000.

Il protestantesimo di lingua italiana nella Svizzera. Figure e movimenti tra Cinquecento e Ottocento. Torino: Claudiana Editrice, 2000.

(ed. with A. M. Ritter, L. Grane and Emidio Campi) Oratio. Das Gebet in patristischer und reformatorischer Sicht. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999.

Prof. Thomas Krüger

Professor of Old Testament Studies

Theologisches Seminar
Universität Zürich
Kirchgasse 9
CH-8001 Zuerich
Switzerland

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Homepage: http://www.theologie.uzh.ch/faecher/altes-testament/thomas-krueger.html

Research Profile

Anthropology, Theology and Ethics of Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East

Teaching Profile

Old Testament Studies, Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Religions

Selected Publications

Geschichtskonzepte im Ezechielbuch. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Zeitfragen 180. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1989.

Kritische Weisheit: Studien zur weisheitlichen Traditionskritik im Alten Testament. Zürich: Pano, 1997.

Qoheleth (Hermeneia). Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.

"Gesetz und Weisheit im Pentateuch," in I. Fischer, U. Rapp and J. Schiller, eds. Auf den Spuren der schriftgelehrten Weisen: Festschrift für Johannes Marböck. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Zeitfragen 331. Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter, 2003: 1-12.

"Jahwe und die Götter in Jeremia 2" in F. Hartenstein, J. Krispenz and A. Schart, eds. Schriftprophetie: Festschrift für Jörg Jeremias. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2004: 181-190.

"Leben und Tod nach Kohelet und Paulus," Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie 19 (2004): 217-241. 

Prof. Mike Martin

Professor for the Psychology of Aging (Gerontopsychology), Director of the Center of Gerontology

University of Zurich
Department of Gerontopsychology
Binzmühlestrasse 14/24
8050 Zürich, Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 635 75 11
Fax: +41 44 635 75 19

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Homepage: http://www.psychologie.uzh.ch/fachrichtungen/geronto/team/martin.html

Teaching & Research Profile

Gerontology Cognitive
Aging Quality of life in old age
Social development across the lifespan
Religion, health and aging

Selected Publications

Psychological Foundations of Gerontology. Grundriss Gerontologie. vol. 3. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2001.

(with H.R. Schelling) Verfügbarkeit und Nutzung menschlicher Ressourcen im Alter: Kernpunkte eines gerontologischen Leitkonzeptes. Idstein: Schulz-Kirchner, 2005. ("Availability and utilization of human resources in old age: Main issues of a gerontological concept")

(with S.L. Willis) Demenz in Schlüsselbegriffen. Bern: Huber, 2005. ("Dementia in Key Terms")

(ed. with A. Kruse) Middle Adulthood: A Lifespan Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.

(with D.K. Mroczek) Enzyklopädie der Gerontologie - Alternsprozesse in multi-disziplinärer Sicht. Bern: Huber, in press. ("Encyclopedia of Gerontology: Aging from a Multidisciplinary Perspective)

(with H.R. Schelling) "Are Personality Traits across the Lifespan Sensitive to Environmental Demands?" in Journal of Adult Development (in press).

(with M. Diehl and A. Kruse et al) "Einstellungen zum eigenen Altern: Eine Alters- oder eine Ressourcenfrage?"  Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie (in press). ("Attitudes toward one’s own aging: A question of age or a question of resources?")

(ed. with S.M. Hofer) "Psychologische Alternsforschung: Beiträge und Perspektiven," in Psychologische Rundschau (2004). ("Psychological Research on Aging: Contributions and Perspectives")

"Intraindividual Variability, Change, and Aging: Conceptual and Analytical Issues," Gerontology 50 (2004): 7-11.

(with E. Voss and A.K. Stegmann) "Der Zusammenhang zwischen Angststörungen und aversiven Lebensereignissen im Alter," Psychotherapie im Alter 2 (2004), 87-101. ("Stressful life events and anxiety disorders in old age")

Prof. Konrad Schmid

Professor of Old Testament Studies

Theologisches Seminar
Universität Zürich     
Kirchgasse 9
8001 Zürich, Switzerland

or:
Hirslanderstr. 30
8032 Zürich, Switzerland
           

Phone: +41 1 634 47 22; or: +41 1 380 08 52                              
Fax: + 41 634 49 91; or: + 41 1 380 08 50                                     

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Homepage: http://www.theologie.uzh.ch/faecher/altes-testament/konrad-schmid.html

Research Profile

Composition of the Pentateuch
Literary and Theological Concepts in Second Temple Judaism
Innerbiblical Exegesis
Prophecy (especially Isaiah, Jeremiah)
Book of Job

Teaching Profile

General: Introduction to the Old Testament, History of the Old Testament, Scholarship in the 19th and 20th Century
Pentateuch: Primeval History, Genesis, Exodus, Moses, Joseph Story
Prophecy: Isaiah, Jeremiah
Theology: Sin and Atonement, Sacrifices, Covenant, Monotheism in Ancient Israel, Creation, Innerbiblical Exegesis
History of Second Temple Judaism: Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism in the Persian Period

Selected Publications

Buchgestalten des Jeremiabuches: Untersuchungen zur Redaktions- und Rezeptionsgeschichte von Jer 30-33 im Kontext des Buches. Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament 72. Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1996.

Erzväter und Exodus: Untersuchungen zur doppelten Begründung der Ursprünge Israels in den Geschichtsbüchern des Alten Testaments. Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament 81. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1999.

(ed. with R.G. Kratz and Th. Krüger) Schriftauslegung in der Schrift: FS O.H. Steck. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 300. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2000.

(with M. Oeming) Hiobs Weg: Stationen von Menschen im Leid. Biblisch-Theologische Studien 45. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2001.

(ed. with J.C. Gertz and M. Witte) Abschied vom Jahwisten: Die Komposition des Hexateuch in der jüngsten Diskussion. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 315. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2002.

(ed. with M. Oeming) Der eine Gott und die Götter: Polytheismus und Monotheismus im antiken Israel Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments 82. Zürich: Zwingli, 2003).

(ed.) Prophetische Heils- und Herrschererwartungen. Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 194. Stuttgart, Katholisches Bibelwerk, 2005.

(ed. with T. Dozeman) A Farewell to the Yahwist? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation. SBL Symposium Series 34. Atlanta: Brill Verlag, 2006).

(with M. Witte, D. Prechel and J. Gertz) Die deuteronomistischen Geschichtswerke: Redaktions- und religionsgeschichtliche Perspektiven zur Deuteronomismusdiskussion in Tora und Vorderen Propheten
Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 365. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2006.

(ed. with T. Römer) Les dernières rédactions du Pentateuque, de l'Hexateuque et de l'Ennéateuque. Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium 203. Leuven: Peeters, 2007.

Prof. Christoph Uehlinger

Professor of History of Religions

Professor of History of Religions
Department of Religious Studies
University of Zurich     
Kirchgasse 9
CH-8001 Zurich
Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 634 47 32
Fax: + 41 44 634 49 91
                                     

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Homepage: http://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/per/perueh.htm

Research Profile

http://www.research-projects.unizh.ch/a930.htm
Ancient Near Eastern Religions and Social History
Iconography of Deities and Demons in the Ancient Near East
Archaeological and iconographical approaches to the history of religion
Visible Religion / Material Religion
Comparative religion (esp. ANE – Judaism – Christianity – Islam)

Teaching Profile

Theoretical issues in the study of religions
Comparative religion
Visible and Material Religion
ANE religions – Judaism – Christianity – Islam

Selected Publications

(with Othmar Keel) Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis & Edinburgh: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1998.

(ed. with Benjamin Sass) Studies in the Iconography of Northwest Semitic Inscribed Seals. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 125; Fribourg & Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1993.

"Anthropomorphic Cult Statuary in Iron Age Palestine and the Search for Yahweh's Cult Images", in: K. van der Toorn (ed.), The Image and the Book: Iconic Cults, Aniconism, and the Veneration of the Holy Book in Israel and the Ancient Near East. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 21. Leuven: Peeters, 1997: 97-156.

(ed.) Images as media. Sources for the cultural history of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (first millennium BCE). Orbis Bibilicus et Orientalis 175; Fribourg & Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2000.

(ed. with Claudia E. Suter) Crafts and Images in Contact. Studies on Eastern Mediterranean art of the first millennium BCE. Orbis Bibilicus et Orientalis 210; Fribourg & Göttingen:Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2005.

"Was There A Cult Reform under King Josiah? The Case for a Well-Grounded Minimum", in L. L. Grabbe, ed. Good Kings/Bad Kings: The Kingdom of Judah in the Seventh Century. European Seminar in Historical Methodology 5. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 393. London/New York: T&T Clark, 2005 (ppb 2007): 279-316.

"Arad, Qitmit – Judahite Aniconism vs. Edomite Iconic Cult? Questioning the Evidence" in G. Beckman & T. J. Lewis, eds. Texts, Artifacts and Images. Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion. Brown Judaic Studies 346.  Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006: 80-112.

"Interested companionship: a review article" [review of Hinnells, The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, 2005; and Segal, The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, 2006] in Numen 54 (2006): 359-384.

(ed. with Thomas Krüger, Manfred Oeming and Konrad Schmid) Das Buch Hiob und seine Interpretationen. Beiträge zum Hiob-Symposium auf dem Monte Verità vom 14.-19. August 2005. Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments 88. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2007.

(ed. with Susanne Bickel, Silvia Schroer and René Schurte) Images as Sources. Studies on ancient Near Eastern artefacts and biblical texts inspired by the work of Othmar Keel. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, special volume. Fribourg & Göttingen:Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2007.

Prof. Samuel Vollenweider

Professor of New Testament Studies

Theologisches Seminar
Universität Zürich
Kirchgasse 9
8001 Zuerich
Switzerland

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Homepage: http://www.theologie.unizh.ch/faecher/neues-testament/samuel-vollenweider.html  

Teaching Profile

Professor of New Testament, especially History and Theology of Early Christian Literature (New Testament, Apostolic Fathers, New Testament-Apocrypha) within the Context of Ancient Religions.

Research Profile

Ancient World and Christianity, Early Christianity and Hellenism; Paul, Letter to
Philippians. Also Interreligious Dialogue (esp. Buddhism), Dialogue with the Sciences (esp. Cosmology).

Selected Publications

Neuplatonische und christliche Theologie bei Synesios von Kyrene, Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte 35. Göttingen:Vandenhoek & Ruprecht 1985.

Freiheit als neue Schöpfung. Eine Untersuchung zur Eleutheria bei Paulus und in seiner
Umwelt. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testament 147. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1989.

(with A. Benz) Würfelt Gott? Ein ausserirdisches Gespräch zwischen Physik und Theologie. Düsseldorf: Patmos, 2000.

Horizonte neutestamentlicher Christologie. Studien zu Paulus und zur frühchristlichen Theologie. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 144. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002.

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Prof. Pierre Buehler, Professor of Systematic Theology

Prof. Emidio Campi, Professor of Swiss Reformation Studies

Prof. Thomas Krüger, Professor of Old Testament Studies

Prof. Mike Martin, Professor of Gerontopsychology

Prof. Konrad Schmid, Professor of Old Testament Studies

Prof. C. Uehlinger, Professor of History of Religions

Prof. Samuel Vollenweider, Professor of New Testament Studies