PhD students
Ongoing dissertation projects:
Laura Buchheim
Doctoral thesis: Alterity and anthropocentricity. A theological subject in the ecological system
Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change and the ecological crisis call for a repositioning of the human in relation to everything non-human - everything other. Christian theology offers perspectives on the other as well as perspectivity in the other. The philosophical and theological concept of the Other will be explored in this dissertation project and examined as a mode of anthropocentricity.
Philipp Räubig, M.A. phil.
Doctoral thesis: Critical theology of life: For a theology following human-animal studies within the horizon of the concept of critique
Short description: In general, I am interested in a theology that is able to cope with the reality of multiple self-made ecological crises. And more specifically, to take a first step towards coping with a part of this reality. To this end, I will contribute to the question of what critique means for a theology that connects to the discourse of human-animal studies.
Completed dissertation projects:
Dr. phil. Johannes Ludwig
Doctoral thesis: "The Catholic justification of human rights between claim and reality. A systematic-theological study taking into account the human rights practice of the Holy See at the United Nations." (Doctoral thesis successfully defended on 4.12.2020).
The dissertation was published in May 2021 with the title "Zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. Die politische Praxis des Heiligen Stuhls bei den Vereinten Nationen im Spiegel der katholischen Begründung der Menschenrechte" in the renowned series "Freiburger theologische Studien" published by Herder Verlag.