Elisa Koch

Thesis title: Towards a Comparative Theology of Vulnerability: Heavenly Voices, Human Faces, and Dried Wells

Biography

Background

  • 2016-20: postgraduate studies in Theology, University of Munich and University of Heidelberg (Germany)
  • 2015-16: non-degree postgraduate progamme in Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
  • 2012-15: undergraduate studies in Theology, University of Heidelberg (Germany)

Qualifications

Erstes Kirchliches Examen, Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz (Germany)

Responsibilities & affiliations

  • Verein Studium in Israel e. V.
  • Network of Young Scholars in Jewish-Christian Dialogue (University of Salzburg)
  • European Society of Women in Theological Research (German Section)

Undergraduate teaching

  • 'The God(s) of the Philosophers: Proposals and Problems', tutorial (THET 08018, 2021/22, SEM 1)
  • 'Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding', tutorial (DIVI 08001, 2021/22, SEM 2)

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Research summary

Elisa is currently working on her doctoral thesis 'Towards a Comparative Theology of Vulnerability: Heavenly Voices, Human Faces, and Dried Wells', in which she engages with comparative-theological methodology and theological vulnerability studies.

Current research interests

Christian ethics and constructive theology; Jewish-Christian relations; comparative theology; theological vulnerability studies

Current project grants

Since December 2020: scholarship for doctoral students, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e. V.

Past project grants

September-November 2020: College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award (declined: December 2020)
2014-20: scholarship for students, Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e. V.

Organiser

  • 2020: 'Naaseh ve-nishma - Wir wollen tun und hören! Aufbrüche mit Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt' (Verein Studium in Israel e. V.)

Participant

  • 2023: 'Nächstenliebe unter Druck – Kirche im Einsatz für Demokratie',  Dresden (Germany)
  • 2018: 'The Present and Future of Christian-Jewish Dialogue: Historical and Theological Perspectives', Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
  • 2017: Internationale Karl Barth-Tagung, Leuenberg (Switzerland)
  • 2017-2022:  regular participant of the annual conferences of the Verein Studium in Israel e. V.

Papers delivered

  • 'New Alliances: Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in Germany' (Network of Young Scholars in Jewish-Christian Dialogue, 07/2023)

  • 'Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt’s post-Shoah Theology: A 21st Century Reappraisal' (Conference: 'Political Theology after Christendom', New College, Oxford, 03/2023)

  • 'Fragile Bodies, Fragile Boundaries: Towards a Comparative Theology of Vulnerability' (Conference: 'Interreligiosität und Diversität', German Section of the European Society of Women in Theological Research, 09/2022)
  • '"It is not in Heaven" (Deut 30:12): On the Vulnerability of Religious Knowledge as a Starting Point for Comparative Theology' (Conference: 'Engaging Particularities', Boston College, 03/2022)
  • 'Majority and Minority Position in Jewish-Christian Dialogue' (Network of Young Scholars in Jewish-Christian Dialogue, 02/2022)
  • 'On the Vulnerability of Religious Truth: A Comparative Theological Perspective' (Conference: 'Truth, Lies, and Christian Ethics', Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, 09/2021)

A Political Theology of Vulnerability: Review of Stålsett Sturla J., A Political Theology of Vulnerability, Political and Public Theologies 3 (Leiden: Brill, 2023. €58.00. pp. xiii + 217. ISBN: 978-90-04-54326-3). The Expository Times 135, Issue 6 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/00145246231224192

An Alternative Account of Forgiveness: Review of Potts Matthew Ichihashi, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2022. £30.00. pp. xi + 267. ISBN: 978-0-300-25985-8). The Expository Times 135, Issue 5 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/0014524623122275

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