Academic education since 1979Studied in Tübingen and Oxford; PhD thesis at the Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen; Habilitation at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen; Professional background since 04. 1989Wiss. Ass. At the University of Tübingen; Lehrstuhlvertr. In Gießen, Hamburg, Munich and Zurich; Scientists at the FEST in Heidelberg; Gastprof. At the University of Zurich; Study Secretary for Theol. And the Church of the LWF in Geneva; Guest lectures at the Sabah Theological Seminary in Malaysia and at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Sarajevo; Permanent guest professor at the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou (China)

Systematic theology, philosophy of Religion, Ecumenical theology, Religion in the Modern Age, The worldwide Protestantism in the present