Presentation
The Protestant Theology research unit (Théologie protestante, UR 4378) brings together 3 research topics that reflect the diversity of the field of Protestant theology (biblical, historical, systematic and practical disciplines). Each topic of research and each team working on the topic in question carry out projects which, while strictly disciplinary, are carried out with a constant concern for interdisciplinarity (both within and outside the field of theology). Since 2009, a cross-disciplinary seminar has brought together the various research topics around a common theme. Teacher-researchers and doctoral students from all the disciplines represented meet for half-day seminars (2 per academic year) to listen to and discuss the various contributions on one aspect of the theme. The contributions are enriched by the input of participants and revisited at a later date. At the end of the project, a joint publication is produced that brings together the texts resulting from this work. The subject chosen for the period 2023-2028 is "Memory at work" ("La mémoire à l'œuvre"). Several members of the unit manage the editing of the Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses, an internationally renowned periodical in theology and religious sciences.
Research topics
The Bible Worlds
- Cultural history of the ancient Near East
- Epigraphy, philology and translatology
- Targumic literature (Targum of the Prophets)
- Study of the New Testament in the light of intertestamental literature
- Commentaries of the New Testament
- Relationships between Jewish (rabbinic) traditions and the Quranic corpus (Quran and Hadiths)
History of Christianity
Teams: Centre for patristic analysis and documentation; Research group on 16th and 17th century nonconformists and the history of protestantism
- Reception of the canonical Scriptures in early Christianity
- Christian apocryphal literature and lost Christian literature
- History of exegesis (critical editing and analysis of biblical commentaries from the 16th century)
- Editing, translation and analysis of works by the 16th century Reformers (from Strasbourg in particular), 16th and 17th century religious dissidents and 20th century theologians
Contemporary religious thinking, beliefs and practices
Teams: Research group on ethics, dogmatics and ecumenism; Research and studies group on sociology, philosophy and psychology of religion; Research and studies group on practical theology and hermeneutics
- Dogmatics: 1. Trinity, kenosis and the divine attributes; 2. Eschatology and relationship to time
- Ethics: 1. Truth, veracity, post-truth; 2. Bioethics (beginning and end of life)
- Philosophical and theological editing and analysis of texts by contemporary Protestant thinkers (Bayle, Kierkegaard, Ellul, Ricœur)
- Religions, spiritualities and ecology; new functions and forms of religious practices and discourses
- Theology and contemporary artistic expressions
Major events and works
Major events
- 11-12 May 2022, Palais universitaire: international colloquium titled Le chapitre et l'église de Saint-Thomas. Éclairages sur une histoire plus que millénaire; scientific organisation: Christian Grappe and Matthieu Arnold (UR 4378), Élisabeth Clementz-Metz (UMR 3400)
- 4-6 May 2023, Palais universitaire and Bibliothèque humaniste de Sélestat: international colloquium titled Martin Bucer et les débuts de la Réforme dans le Sud-Ouest du Saint-Empire romain germanique (1520-1523/1524) ; scientific organisation: Matthieu Arnold (UR 4378), Irene Dingel (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz) with the collaboration of Gabriel Braeuner (Bibliothèque humaniste de Sélestat)
- 1-2 June 2023, Palais universitaire: international colloquium titled Écologie et spiritualité; scientific organisation: Christophe Monnot and Frédéric Rognon (UR 4378) (in partnership with the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Strasbourg)
- 13 September-13 December 2023, Strasbourg National University Library (Bibliothèque Nationale Universitaire – BNU): exhibition entitled Sacrés rois! David et Salomon à travers les âges; scientific curators: Régine Hunziker-Rodewald, Christian Grappe and Marc Vial (UR 4378) (in partnership with the BNU)
- 16-17 November 2023, Palais universitaire and Institut national du service public: international colloquium titled Le protestantisme et les pasteurs alsaciens-mosellans entre 1940 et 1945; scientific organisation: Marc Lienhard, with the collaboration of Matthieu Arnold (UR 4378) et al (in partnership with the Union des Églises protestantes d'Alsace et de Lorraine)
Important publications
- André Birmelé (éd.), Accords et dialogues œcuméniques, Lyon, Olivétan, 2021 (clé USB)
- Matthieu Arnold, Volker Leppin et Marc Lienhard (dir.), Luther à Worms, 1521-2021. Les événements et leur réception, Strasbourg, Association Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023, 273 pages
- Christian Grappe, Manuel d'exégèse du Nouveau Testament, Genève, Labor et Fides, 2023, 211 pages
- Christian Grappe, Élisabeth Clementz-Metz et Matthieu Arnold (dir.), Histoire et secrets de l'église et du chapitre de Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg, Éditions du Signe, 2023, 377 pages
- Martin Kopp [chercheur associé UR 4378], Vers une écologie intégrale. Théologie pour des vies épanouies, Genève, Labor et Fides, 2023, 210 pages
- Daniel Frey, Isabelle Grellier-Bonnal et Marc Vial (éd.), L'ombre d’un doute. Vivre et penser la précarité de la foi, Genève, Labor et Fides, 2024, 221 pages
- Frédéric Rognon et Jacob Marques Rollison (dir.), Face aux défis écologiques et technologiques. L'éthique de Jacques Ellul et Bernard Charbonneau, La Murette, R&N Éditions, 2024, 364 pages
