Prof. Rudolf von Sinner, Dr. theol. habil.

Prof. Rudolf von Sinner, Dr. theol. habil.Professor of Systematic Theology, Professor in Human Rights and Public Policies, Professor extra-ordinary, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

RESEARCH PROFILE

Public Theology, Political Ethics, Sovereignty, Religion and Politics in the Secular State, Ecumenism, Interreligious Dialogue, Intercultural Theology, Religious Pluralism, Pentecostalism, Lutheran Theology, Trinity, Ecclesiology

TEACHING PROFILE

Public Theology, Hermeneutics, Trinity, Ecclesiology, Ecumenism, Religious Freedom and Human Rights, Religion in the Secular State

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Reden vom Dreieinigen Gott in Brasilien und Indien – Grundzüge einer ökumenischen Hermeneutik im Dialog mit Leonardo Boff und Raimon Panikkar (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003) [Speaking of the Triune God in Brazil and India – Basic Features of an Ecumenical Hermeneutics in Dialogue with Leonardo Boff and Raimon Panikkar]

2. The Churches and Democracy in Brazil. Towards a Public Theology Focused on Citizenship (Eugene, Or.: Wipf & Stock, 2012)

3. Public Theology in the Secular State: a Perspective from the Global South (Zürich: LIT, 2021).

4. (with Marcial Maçaneiro) Hearing and Telling Old and New Stories from Latin America – Challenges and Inspirations for an Earthed Faith, in Ernst Conradie and Pan Chu-Lai, eds, Taking a Deep Breath for the Story to Begin… An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the “Anthropocene” vol. 1 (Durbanville: AOSIS, 2021), 183-203

5. Eschatology, Space, and Public Theology, in: Thomas Wabel, Katharina Eberlein-Braun, Torben Stamer (Hrsg.): Space and Place as a Topic for Public Theologies, Münster: LIT, 2022 (GNPT), 229-243

6. Shame as an Ethical Category for an Integrative Diaconia in Brazil, in Religions 14/7 (2023), 952

7. (with Wilhelm Sell) Politico-Religious Messianism – a critical analysis of the Brazilian situation through Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in: Robert Vosloo, Teddy Sakupapa, Karola Radler & Ashwin Thyssen, des, Bonhoeffer and the Responsibility for a Coming Generation; Doing Theology in a Time Out of Joint, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2024 (New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics), 172-186

8. (with Esther D. Reed, Dion A. Forster et al.) „Christian Ethics“, in: St. Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology, 2024 (https://www.saet.ac.uk/Christianity/ChristianEthics)

9. „Katholizität“ and „Theologizität und Interdisziplinarität“, in: Franz Gmainer-Pranzl, Judith Gruber, Andreas Heuser, Klaus Hock, Anja Middelbeck-Varwick, eds, Handbuch Interkulturelle Theologie, Heidelberg: Metzler, 2024/2025 (https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-662-66324-0_10-1)

10. (forthcoming, ed. with Dion A. Forster) Faith in Public: Theological-Political Dialogues between Brazil and South Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN Media, 2026.

CONTACT

Email: rudolf.sinner@pucpr.br
Homepage:
https://www.pucpr.br/escola-de-educacao-e-humanidades/mestrado-doutorado/teologia/
http://lattes.cnpq.br/4064857294813986
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0487-4237