Markus Mühling

Markus Mühling is a Protestant systematic theologian and philosopher of religion whose work focuses largely on the doctrine of God, eschatology, the atonement and the dialogue between the natural sciences and theology.

Career

Mühling graduated from Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel with a Dr. theol. in Systematic Theology, and received his venia legendi in Systematic Theology from Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, and has since been visiting Professor at King's College, Aberdeen and Member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton. He is currently a professor for Systematic Theologiy and International-Interdisciplinary Dialogue at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. In 2014, Leuphana University awarded him the research prize for the best monograph.[1]

Work

One of Prof Mühling's major impacts on the field of the doctrine of God has been his work on love as a model for the trinitarian understanding of God[2] and its soteriological impacts.[3] He has worked extensively on non-empirical presuppositions in the work of physicist Albert Einstein as well as on theological discussions of the neurosciences and new trends in evolutionary theory. He has also written textbooks in the areas of eschatology and ethics.

Prof. Mühling's approach can be characterized as work towards establishing and widening an ontology of narrative relationality that focuses on constitutive processual relations.[4] He believes that increased inter- and transdisciplinary engagement is necessary for our understanding of the great questions as well as for the well-being of society.[5] God can be understood as a trinitarian related, dramatic and open event in God's own eternity, which creates, sustains, atones and perfects creation in resonance with God's own relational being as becoming.[6] In faith, God's presence can be perceived in accordance with phenomenological approaches to the neurosciences.[7] Prof. Mühling regards recent developments in evolutionary theory (e.g. niche construction), as fruitful resources for modelling theological anthropology.[8]

Selected publications (books)

References

  1. http://www.leuphana.de/news/publikationen/leuphana-magazin/dies-academicus/forschungspreise.html
  2. Cf. M. Mühling (2005c), 296–332.
  3. Cf. M. Mühling (2005a), 292–356.
  4. Cf. M. Mühling (2013), 17–20.
  5. Cf. M. Mühling (2014), 13–35.
  6. Cf. Mühling (2014), 165–196.
  7. Cf. M. Mühling (2014), 86–136.
  8. Cf. M. Mühling (2014), 205–221.

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