Professor Michael Welker - In God’s Image: Anthropology

Michael Welker is a Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg and Director of FIIT

Events Details

Dates: 28, 29, 31 Oct and 4, 5, 7 Nov, 5.30-6.30pm.

The lectures may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm.

Venue: The Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL

This event is open to all and there is no need to book in advance.

Series Summary

This lecture series explores the concept ‘in God's image’. Human existence, ranging ‘from dust to dust’ to ‘only a little lower than God’, challenges us to discern the moral, scientific, technological, and religious powers that human beings bring to bear most effectively within this broad spectrum. An examination at an intellectual level and beyond illuminates the emergence of the human potential for justice, freedom, truth, and peace.

We welcome contributions to discussion about the series at the Gifford Lectures Blog.

Gifford Seminar

The Gifford Seminar will be held on Wednesday 6 November 2019, 11.00am.  

At this year's Seminar, Gifford lecturer Professor Welker will join leading academics to discuss questions from the audience arising from his Gifford Lecture Series, “In God's image: Anthropology"

This event is open to all.

There is no need to book.

Venue:

Martin Hall, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX

Panel: 

Professor Michael Welker, Gifford Lecturer. 

Dr Sarah Lane-Ritchie, Lecturer in Theology and Science, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. 

Dr Joshua Ralston, Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

Chairperson: 

Dr Alison Elliot, CBE,  General Secretary, Royal Society of Edinburgh and Honorary Fellow in the School of Divinity.

Biography

Professor Michael Welker is a Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg (since 2013) and Director of the Research Center International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT, since 2005) and an Honorary Professor at Seoul Theological University.

He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy and Corresponding Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and received the Medal of the University of Heidelberg. Karl-Barth-Preis award in 2016.

His previous positions include - 1983 Professor in Tübingen; 1987 Chair of Reformed Theology in Münster; 1991-2013 Chair of Systematic Theology in Heidelberg; 1996-2006 Director of the International Scientific Forum (IWH) Heidelberg as well as guest professorships at McMaster University, Canada; Princeton Theological Seminary (twice); Senior Consultant Scholar at the CTI Princeton (twice); Harvard Divinity School; Cambridge Divinity School; Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. Endowed lectures in Europe, South Africa, Asia and the USA.

He has supervised 60 doctoral students from 15 countries and published around 400 articles in journals and books. He is author or editor of about 50 books (most of them in several editions and translations), including:

God the Spirit (1994);

God’s Revelation: Christology (extended Edinburgh Gunning Lectures, 2012);

Creation and Reality (Princeton Warfield Lectures, 1999);

What Happens in Holy Communion? (2000);

With John Polkinghorne, Faith in the Living God (2001);

The Science and Theology Dialogue: What Can Theology Contribute? (Yale Taylor Lectures 2012);

Ed., The Depth of the Human Person: A Multidisciplinary Approach (2014);

Ed., Quests for Freedom: Biblical – Historical – Contemporary (2015);                      

Series Videos

The lectures will be recorded and links will be posted in the respective pages of each lecture.

Related Links

University of Heidelberg

Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology FIIT

Gifford Lectures Blog