Vita

1961
born in Ahrensburg (Schleswig-Holstein)
1981-1988
Studied Protestant Theology in Munich, Heidelberg and Hamburg
1989-1922
Doctoral scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
1992-1994
Vicar at the Lübeck Cathedral
1994-1995
Pastor i.E. at St. Petri in Lübeck, habilitation scholarship holder of the DFG
1995-2001
Research assistant for Practical Theology at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen
2001-2008
Professor of Protestant Theology and Cultural History of Christianity in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt
Since 2008
Professor of Practical Theology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at LMU Munich

Selected publications

Complete publication list on Open Access LMU

1. Schleiermacher's Theory of Piety: Its Academic Place and Systematic Content in the Discourses, in the Doctrine of Faith, and in the Dialectic (Schleiermacher Archive 15), Berlin / New York 1994.

2. Historical Cultural Studies of Modern Christian Practice: Classical Protestant Theories and Their Significance for the Self-Understanding of Practical Theology (Contributions to Historical Theology 114), Tübingen 2000.

3. Education in Practical Theology, Tübingen 2003.

4. Encyclopedic Problems of Practical Theology (Practical Theology in History and the Present 10), Tübingen 2011.

5. Participatory Contemporaneity: Studies on Protestantism in the Ethical Debates of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1989. Edited by Christian Albrecht and Reiner Anselm (Religion in the Federal Republic of Germany 1), Tübingen 2015.

6. Together with Reiner Anselm: Public Protestantism. On the Current Debate about the Social Presence and Political Tasks of Protestant Christianity (Theological Studies. New Series 4), Zurich 2017.

7. Out of Responsibility. Protestantism in the Political Arenas. Edited by Christian Albrecht and Reiner Anselm in collaboration with Andreas Busch, Hans Michael Heinig, Christiane Kuller, Martin Laube, and Claudia Lepp (Religion in the Federal Republic of Germany 3), Tübingen 2019.

8. Together with Reiner Anselm: Differentiation and Integration. Case Studies on the Presences and Practices of Public Protestantism, Tübingen 2020.

9. Concepts and Spaces of Public Theology. Science – Church – Diakonia. Edited by Ulrich H.J. Körtner, Reiner Anselm, and Christian Albrecht, (Public Theology 39), Leipzig 2020.

10. Together with Wolfgang Huber, Reiner Anselm, and Hans Michael Heinig: "It's Rather a Stance for Life." Wolfgang Huber in a Scholarly Biographical Conversation with Christian Albrecht, Reiner Anselm, and Hans Michael Heinig, Tübingen 2022.

Important current features

  • Since 2021: Member of the Senate of LMU
  • Since 2020: Representative of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at LMU in the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Chair of the Synodal Committee for Fundamental Issues of Church Life