Markus Mühling (born 27 December 1969, Frankfurt am Main) 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 University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...

, 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 King's College in Old Aberdeen, Scotland, the full title of which is The University and King's College of Aberdeen (''Collegium Regium Abredonense''), is a formerly independent university founded in 1495 and now an integral part of the Universi ...

and Member of the

Center of Theological Inquiry Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a private school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1812 under the auspices of Archibald Alexander, the General Assembly of t ...

, Princeton. From 2011 to 2018 he has been professor for Systematic Theology and International-Interdisciplinary Dialogue at the

Leuphana University of Lüneburg Leuphana University Lüneburg is a public university in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Leuphana was founded in 1946 as a college of education (''Pädagogische Hochschule''). Leuphana established a unique university model within the German acad ...

, Germany. In 2014, Leuphana University awarded him the research prize for the best monograph. He's currently Professor for Systematic Theology at the Theological University of Wuppertal/Bethel.

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 and its soteriological impacts. 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. 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. 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. In faith, God's presence can be perceived in accordance with phenomenological approaches to the neurosciences. Prof. Mühling regards recent developments in evolutionary theory (e.g.

niche construction Niche construction is the process by which an organism alters its own (or another species') local environment. These alterations can be a physical change to the organism’s environment or encompass when an organism actively moves from one habita ...

), as fruitful resources for modelling theological anthropology.Cf. M. Mühling (2014), 205–221.

Selected publications (books)

* M. Mühling. 2014. "Resonances: Neuroscience, Evolution and Theology. Evolutionary Niche Construction, the Ecological Brain and Narrative-Relational Theology". Göttingen/Bristol (CT): Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. * M. Mühling. 2015. "T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Eschatology". New York/London/Sydney/New Delhi: Bloomsbury. (forthcoming) * M. Mühling. 2013. "Liebesgeschichte Gott. Systematische Theologie im Konzept". Göttingen/Bristol (CT): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. * M. Mühling. 2012. "Systematische Theologie: Ethik. Eine christliche Theorie vorzuziehenden Handelns." Göttingen/Bristol (CT): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/UTB. * M. Mühling. 2011. "Einstein und die Religion. Das Wechselverhältnis zwischen religiös-weltanschaulichen Gehalten und naturwissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung Albert Einsteins in seiner Entwicklung." Göttingen/Bristol (CT): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. * M. Mühling. 2007. "Grundinformation Eschatologie. Systematische Theologie in der Perspektive der Hoffnung." Göttingen/Bristol (CT): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/UTB. * M. Mühling. 2005a. "Versöhnendes Handeln – Handeln in Versöhnung. Gottes Opfer an die Menschen." Göttingen/Bristol (CT): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. * M. Mühling. 2005b. "A Theological Journey into Narnia. An analysis of the message beneath the text of »The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe« by C.S. Lewis". Göttingen/Bristol (CT): Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. * M. Mühling. 2005c. "Gott ist Liebe. Studien zum Verständnis der Liebe als Modell des trinitarischen Redens von Gott". 2nd ed. Marburg: Elwert.

References

External links

Markus Mühling at Protestant University Wuppertal (Barmen)/Bethel

Private Homepage
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