Ingolf U. Dalferth

Ingolf Ulrich Dalferth (born 9 July 1948) is a philosopher of religion and theologian. His work is regarded as being on the methodological borderlines between analytic philosophy, hermeneutics and phenomenology, and he is a recognized expert in issues of contemporary philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of orientation.

Since 2007 Dalferth has held the Danforth Chair in Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. From 1998 to 2012 he served as the Director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zürich. He is the chief editor of the journal Theologische Literaturzeitung (Leipzig, Germany), book series Philosophy of Religion and Theology (Tübingen, Germany), and book series Claremont Studies in Religion as well as editor of Hermeneutischen Untersuchungen zur Theologie (Tübingen, Germany)

Biography

Ingolf U. Dalferth studied theology, philosophy, and linguistics in Tübingen, Edinburgh, Vienna, and Cambridge. After receiving his doctorate and habilitation in theology at the University of Tübingen, he held various positions including director of studies at the Tübinger Stift, lecturer in Durham, and professor in Tübingen, Uppsala and Frankfurt a. M. From 1987 to 1989 he was Hulsean Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, 1995 the Samuel Ferguson Lecturer at Manchester University,in 2008 the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Lecturer at the University of Oxford. From 1986-1988, 1996-1998 and 2004-2006 he was President of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion. From 1999-2007 he was the founding President of the German Society for Philosophy of Religion. 2015 to 2016 he will be President of the Society for Philosophy of Religion in the USA. From 1981 to 1990 he was Lecturer and University Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen, from 1990 to 1995 Professor of Protestant Theology (Dogmatics) and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Frankfurt, from 1995 to 2013 Professor of Systematic Theology, Symbolism and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zürich. Since 2007 he has been the Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. From 1991-1994 he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and from 1998 to 2002 as the Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Zurich. From 2004 to 2009 he was Research Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, from 2005 to 2006 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. In 2005 and 2006 he was awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen.

Work

The primary research areas of Ingolf U. Dalferth include Christological, ecclesiological, and methodological issues in systematic theology, religion, philosophy (analytic philosophy of religion and phenomenology), semiotics and hermeneutics (theory of signs, language processes, forms of understanding), emotions, trust, evil and time, and ecumenism (Lutheranism and Anglicanism). His work also includes several functions within the Swiss and German churches and the ecumenical movement. From 1993 to 2004 he was co-chair of the Theological Board of the Meissen Commission. In 2004 he was Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen (Denmark); from 2004 to 2009 Director of the Research Group ›Religion and Emotion‹ at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich; from 2005 to 2013 Co-Director of the University Research Priority Program on the Foundations of Human Social Behavior at the University of Zurich; from 2009 to 2013 Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Project „Understanding Trust“ at the University of Zurich; from 2013-2016 Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Project “Prayer as Embodied Understanding” at the University of Zurich.

Bibliography (Selection)


Edited Works

• I.U. Dalferth/M.A. Block (eds.), Hermeneutics and the Philosophy of Religion: The Legacy of Paul Ricoeur. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Con-ference 2013, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2015.• I.U. Dalferth/M.Ch. Rodgers (eds.), Revelation, Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2012, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014. • I.U. Dalferth/S. Peng-Keller (Hg.), Vertrauen Interdisziplinär, Zürich 2013. • I.U. Dalferth/A. Hunziker (eds.), Gott denken – ohne Metaphysik? Zu einer aktuellen Kontroverse in Theologie und Philosophie, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2013. • I.U. Dalferth/M.Ch. Rodgers (eds.), Conversion, Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2011, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2013 • I.U. Dalferth/S. Peng-Keller (eds.), Grundvertrauen. Hermeneutik eines Grenzphänomens, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2013. • I.U. Dalferth/M. Rodgers (eds.), Skeptical Faith, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2012. • I.U. Dalferth/S. Peng-Keller (eds.), Gottvertrauen. Die ökumenische Diskussion um die fiducia, Freiburg i. Br./Basel/Wien 2012. • I.U. Dalferth/P. Bühler/A. Hunziker (eds.), Hermeneutische Theologie – heute? Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2012. • I.U. Dalferth/S. Peng-Keller (eds.), Kommunikation des Vertrauens, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2012. • I.U. Dalferth/M. Rodgers (eds.), Passion and Passivity, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 61, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011. • I.U. Dalferth/S. Berg (eds.), Gestalteter Klang – gestalteter Sinn. Orientierungsstrategien in Musik und Religion im Wandel der Zeit, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt: Leipzig 2011. • I.U. Dalferth/H. Schulz (eds.), Religion und Konflikt. Grundlagen und Fallanalysen, Research in Contemporary Religion, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011. • I.U. Dalferth/A. Hunziker (eds.), Seinkönnen. Der Mensch zwischen Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 54, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011. • I.U. Dalferth/H. von Sass (eds.), The Contemplative Spirit. D.Z. Phillips on Religion and the Limits of Philosophy, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 49, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2010. • I.U. Dalferth (eds.), The Presence and Absence of God, Religion in Philosophy and Theology, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2009. • I.U. Dalferth/Ph. Stoellger/A. Hunziker (eds.), Unmöglichkeiten. Zur Phänomenologie und Hermene-utik eines modalen Grenzbegriffs, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 38, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2009. • I.U. Dalferth/Ph. Stoellger (eds.), Gott nennen. Gottes Namen und Gott als Name, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 35, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2008. • I.U. Dalferth/A. Hunziker unter Mitarbeit von A. Anker (eds.), Mitleid. Konkretionen eines strittigen Konzepts, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 28, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2007. • I.U. Dalferth/J. Schröter (eds.), Bibel in gerechter Sprache? Kritik eines misslungenen Projekts, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2007. • I.U Dalferth/Ph. Stoellger (eds.): Hermeneutik der Religion, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 27, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2007. • I.U Dalferth et al. (eds.), Eine Wissenschaft oder viele? Die Einheit evangelischer Theo¬logie in der Sicht ihrer Disziplinen, ThLZ.F.17, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2006. • I.U. Dalferth/ H.-P. Grosshans (eds.): Kritik der Religion. Zur Aktualität einer unerledigten philoso-phischen und theologischen Aufgabe. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2006. • I.U. Dalferth/Ph. Stoellger (eds.), Interpretation in den Wissenschaften, Interpretation Interdisziplinär Bd. 3, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2005. • I.U. Dalferth/ Ph. Stoellger (eds.), Krisen der Subjektivität: Problemfelder eines strittigen Paradigmas, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2005. • I.U. Dalferth/ C.R. Famos (eds.), Das Recht der Kirche. Zur Revision der Zürcher Kirchenordnung, Zürich: TVZ 2004. • I.U. Dalferth/Ph. Stoellger (eds.), Wahrheit in Perspektiven. Probleme einer offenen Konstellation, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 14, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2004. • I.U. Dalferth/J. Fischer/ H.-P. Großhans (eds.), Denkwürdiges Geheimnis. Beiträge zur Gotteslehre. Festschrift für Eberhard Jüngel zum 70. Geburtstag, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2004. • I.U. Dalferth/P. Oppenheim (eds.), Einheit bezeugen. Zehn Jahre nach der Meissener Erklärung. Beiträge zu den theologischen Konferenzen von Springe und Cheltenham zwischen der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland und der Kirche von England/Witnessing to Unity. Ten years after the Meissen Declaration, Frankfurt a.M.: Lembeck 2003. • I.U. Dalferth (ed.), Ethik der Liebe. Studien zu Kierkegaards ‚Taten der Liebe‘, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2002. • I.U. Dalferth/E. Jüngel (eds.), Karl Barth, Fides quaerens intellectum. Anselms Beweis der Existenz Gottes im Zusammenhang seines theologischen Programms (1931), Zürich 32002. • I.U. Dalferth/Ph. Stoellger (eds.), Vernunft, Kontingenz und Gott, Konstellationen eines offenen Problems, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 1, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2000. • I.U. Dalferth/H.J. Luibl/H. Weder (eds.), Die Wissenschaften und Gott, Zürich/Freiburg 1998. • I.U. Dalferth/H.J. Luibl/ H. Weder (eds.), Europa verstehen. Zum europäischen Gestus der Universalität, Zürich: Pano 1997. • I.U. Dalferth/E. Jüngel (eds.), Karl Barth. Fides quaerens intellectum, Zürich: TVZ 1981.

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