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PD Dr. Hendrik Stoppel – Curriculum vitae


Academic Career

from 10/2024(–09/2025) 

Interim Chair of Intercultural Theology at Ruhr University Bochum

15/05/2024

Habilitation and Venia Legendi for Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Heidelberg, with the habilitation thesis »Between Myth and Eschaton. The Question of the Reality of God« (Reviews: Prof. Dr. Philipp Stoellger, Prof. Dr. Friederike Nüssel)

04/2024–09/2024

Interim Professor for Systematic Theology with a focus on Ethics at the University of Frankfurt a.M. (Prof. Dr. Rebekka A. Klein)

10/2023–03/2024

Interim Chair of Systematic Theology/Ecumenics and Dogmatics at Ruhr University Bochum (Prof. Dr. Rebekka A. Klein)

09/2021–09/2023

Research Associate at the Chair of Systematic Theology/Ecumenics and Dogmatics at Ruhr University Bochum (Prof. Dr. Rebekka A. Klein)

04/2021–09/2021

Research Associate in the department of Theology & Science at the Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft e.V. (Research Center of the Protestant Study Community) (FEST) in Heidelberg

11/2019–04/2021

Research Associate in the project »Orientation Knowledge for Just Peace – In the Tension between Civil Nonviolent Conflict Prevention and Law-preserving Violence« at the Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft e.V. (Research Center of the Protestant Study Community) (FEST) in Heidelberg, funded by the Protestant Chaplaincy in the Bundeswehr

10/2018–10/2019

Research Associate in the project »Embodiment as a Paradigm of an Evolutionary Cultural Anthropology« at the Marsilius-Kolleg of the University of Heidelberg

04/2017–06/2019

Research Associate in the project »InterReligio« at the University of Heidelberg in collaboration with the Universities of Strasbourg and Basel, funded by the EU Regional Fund Upper Rhine

07.02.2017

Doctorate in Theology (magna cum laude) at the University of Tübingen with the thesis »Face to Face. Overture at Horeb: Deuteronomy 5 and 9–10 and their Background« (Reviews: Prof. Dr. Erhard Blum, Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dieter Neef)

10/2016–03/2018

Research Associate at the Chair of Systematic Theology: Dogmatics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. Philipp Stoellger)

07/2014–09/2016

Research Assistant for book projects at the Chair of NT I at the University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Michael Tilly)

09/2013–09/2016

Research Assistant at the Chair of OT I at the University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Erhard Blum)

09/2010–08/2013

Research Associate in the DFG project »The Framework Texts of Deuteronomy and the Genesis of the Pentateuch« at the University of Tübingen

2000–2005

Study of Protestant Theology with the degree Erste Evangelisch-theologische Dienstprüfung (First Protestant Theological Service Examination) and Diploma (17.02.2005) – University of Tübingen

1998–2000

Study of Protestant Theology (focus on language courses) – Lutheran Theological Seminary in Oberursel

1996–1998

Upper secondary education with Abitur (19.06.1998) – Claus-von-Stauffenberg School in Rodgau-Dudenhofen

1995–1996

High School year abroad – Asheville Christian Academy in Asheville, NC (USA)


Functions and Memberships


Presentations

06/2024

Blumenbergs ›Arbeit am Mythos‹ als Erkenntnistheorie [Blumenberg's ›Work on Myth‹ as Epistemology]: Lecture Series »Myths in the Sciences« of the Center for Science Theory (ZfW) at the University of Münster

05/2024

U-Topology of the Eschaton: Panel »Imagining Another World. Utopia and Paradigm Shifts« at #EuARe24 in Palermo (Italy)

05/2024

Memoria Gottes zwischen Kontinuität, Restitution und Neuschöpfung [God's Memory Between Continuity, Restitution, and Re-Creation]: Habilitation Lecture at the Faculty of Theology of Heidelberg University

06/2023

Zugänglichkeit und Verborgenheit von Wirklichkeiten [Accessibility and Hiddenness of Realities]: International Study Course in Philosophy of Religion at the Inter University Center Dubrovnik (Croatia)

11/2022

Mythos und Eschaton. Christliche Wirklichkeitsverständnisse und ihre Implikationen für eine theologische Ethik [Myth and Eschaton: Christian Understandings of Reality and Their Implications for Theological Ethics]: Colloquium on Protestant Ethics

02/2022

Podium »Digitalisierung und die Frage nach dem guten Leben« [Panel: »Digitalization and the Question of the Good Life«]: Jour Fixe of the Research Center of the Protestant Study Community (FEST) in Heidelberg

09/2019

Mythen der KI: Transparenz und Autonomie [Myths of AI: Transparency and Autonomy]: Theological Training for Pastors and Teachers at the Institute of Ethics at the University of Tübingen

06/2019

Christologie als soteriologische Frage nach dem Subjekt des Heils [Christology as a Soteriological Question About the Subject of Salvation]: International Study Course in Philosophy of Religion at the Inter University Center Dubrovnik (Croatia)

05/2019

Sinai zwischen Jerusalem und Samaria. Zur Interpretation der Gottesbergtradition [Sinai Between Jerusalem and Samaria: On the Interpretation of the God-Mountain Tradition]: »Holy Places« Research Colloquium on the Old Testament at Ruhr University Bochum

10/2018

Moderation der Podiumsdiskussion »Interreligiöses Gespräch – gegeneinander, umeinander, miteinander?« [Moderation of the Panel Discussion: »Interreligious Dialogue – Against, Around, or With Each Other?«]: Conference »Forms and Functions of Interreligiosity« of the InterReligio Project at Heidelberg University

06/2018

Nation und Gesellschaft [Nation and Society]: International Study Course in Philosophy of Religion at the Inter University Center Dubrovnik (Croatia)

04/2018

Der Andere bei Lévinas als Denkmöglichkeit der interreligiösen Begegnung [The Other in Lévinas as a Thought Framework for Interreligious Encounter]: Joint Study Day of the Interreligious Training Programs of the Universities of Basel, Heidelberg, and Strasbourg in the InterReligio Project at Heidelberg University

06/2017

Das Begehren des Mythos [The Desire of Myth]: International Study Course in Philosophy of Religion at the Inter University Center Dubrovnik (Croatia)

06/2016

Echo und Narcissus – Das Selbst und der Andere. Oder: Elfie – Das Echo von Selfie. Eine Rehabilitation des Narcissus [Echo and Narcissus – The Self and the Other. Or: Elfie – The Echo of Selfie. A Rehabilitation of Narcissus]: International Study Course in Philosophy of Religion at the Inter University Center Dubrovnik (Croatia)

04/2016

Die Einbindung des Dekalogs in Dtn 5. Narration oder Argumentation? [The Integration of the Decalogue in Deuteronomy 5: Narration or Argumentation?]: Colloquium »Old Testament Discourses on Philosophy, Ethics, Politics, Theology« of the Faculties of Theology in Tübingen and Zurich

09/2015

Im Angesicht des Anderen – Emmanuel Lévinas Idee der Unendlichkeit [In the Face of the Other – Emmanuel Lévinas' Idea of Infinity]: Theological Training for Pastors and Teachers at the Institute of Ethics at the University of Tübingen

09/2014

Nietzsche, die Genealogie, die Historie – zum Verhältnis von Foucault und Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Genealogy, History – On the Relationship Between Foucault and Nietzsche]: Theological Training for Pastors and Teachers at the Institute of Ethics at the University of Tübingen

11/2012

Der Verlust von Tempel und König in Jerusalem als Kristallisationspunkt religiöser Traditionen [The Loss of Temple and King in Jerusalem as a Crystallization Point of Religious Traditions]: Workshop »Figuration of Foundation – Theft as a Gesture of Cultural Founding« at the German Department of the University of Tübingen

Contact

PD Dr. Hendrik Stoppel

GA 8/51

Lehrstuhl für Interkulturelle Theologie
Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstraße 150
44801 Bochum

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