Academic functions: University professor aD Senior professor at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in the Cultures of Pre-modernity and Modernity" Member of the Center for Religion and Modernity Member of the Center for Bioethics Short Biography: Born in 1947 in Frankfurt / M; Abitur in Bad Homburg vdH, 1966; 1966-1972 Study of Protestant Theology, Philosophy and Sociology in Wuppertal and Heidelberg; 1972 First theological examination in Heidelberg; 1978 Doctorate in Heidelberg; 1977 Second theological examination in Darmstadt; 1995 Habilitation for Systematic Theology at the University of Bochum. 1973-1974 Vicar of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau; 1975-1981 Research Assistant at the University of Heidelberg for Systematic Theology (Social Ethics); 1981 Ordination; 1981-1999 Scientific adviser in the Research Center of the Protestant Study Community (FEST) in Heidelberg; 1995-1999 Associate Professor for Systematic Theology at the Protestant Theological Faculty, University of Bochum; 1999-2013 Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute of Ethics and Social Science at the University of Münster; 2002-2004 and 2010-2011 Prodekan, 2004-2006 Dean of the Protestant Theological Faculty; 2007-2009 Member of the Executive Board of the Excellence Cluster "Religion und Politik" of the EMU.

Theory of Ethics, Political Ethics (international relations, ethics of peace), Legal ethics (human rights), Social ethics (religion and welfare state), Ecclesiology and church theory Fundamental principles of the law of religion and religion.