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As part of a DFG-funded project on “Compassion and Mercy in
Emerging Christianity and Its Environment from a Theological, Anthropological, and Ethical Perspective with Special Consideration
of Emotional Theory Issues,” Prof. Mattias Konradt has written a
ground-breaking book: Ethics in the New Testament. He also follows on from publications on ethical and socio-psychological issues
by the Heidelberg New Testament emeritus Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.mult.
Gerd Theißen.
Jan Stievermann, Professor of the History of Christianity in the
USA, in a bridge professorship between the Heidelberg Center
for American Studies (HCA) and the
Faculty of Theology, works in an international network and with a number
of research grants on such current and
controversial topics as “Authority and
Trust in American Culture, Society, History and Politics,” “Natural
Disasters in the USA,” “Urban Inequality in the Creative City,” “Sustainable Governance Indicators: United States, Canada, Chile, and
Mexico,” and “Patterns of Economic Policy Advice in Germany and
the United States.”
Prof. Stievermann also organized a multiyear cooperative project,
“The Reformation and Multiple Reformations,” with the Roman
Catholic University of Notre Dame in the USA, a collaboration that
led not only to joint book publications but also to visiting professorships by colleagues from there with us. Finally, he cooperates with
the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation and the HCA in organizing the James W.C. Pennington Distinguished Fellowships.
Every year since 2011, Manfred Lautenschläger has sponsored
research and teaching visits by outstanding colleagues who commemorate the American pastor and former slave James Pennington
and the liberation issues that were important to him in his great
work. At the suggestion of the jurist and Hegel student Friedrich
Carové, the Heidelberg Faculty of Theology awarded Pennington an
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