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E-Mail: jochen.schmidt@uni-mainz.de

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  • 2023- Professor for Systematic Theology with emphasis on Dogmatics at the University of Mainz
  • 2023-2024 Member of the unified Advisory Board (Spruchkammer) of the Evangelical Church of Westfalia
  • 2022 Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School with a scholarship from the Heinrich Hertz-Stiftung
  • 2021-2023 Director of the Graduate Centre of the Faculty for Cultural Sciences, University of Paderborn
  • 2017-2023 Professor for Systematic Theology, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the Institute for Protestant Theology, University of Paderborn
  • 2017 Call to a Professorship for Systematic Theology at the University of Wuppertal
  • 2015-2017 Professor for Systematic Theology and Ecumenics at the Institute for Protestant Theology, University of Paderborn
  • 2016 Visiting Fellow at Yale Divinity School with a scholarship from the Heinrich Hertz-Stiftung
  • 2013-2015 Professor (fixed-term) for Systematic Theology und Ecumenics at the Institute für Protestant Theology, University of Paderborn
  • 2007-2013 Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Church History, University of Bonn
  • 2011-2012 Acting Professor für Systematic Theology, University of Bonn
  • 2010-2011 Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Systematic Theology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
  • 2010 Habilitation in Systematic Theology at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn
  • 2007-2008 Manager (acting), Centre for Religion and Society, University of Bonn
  • 2005-2007 Honorary Research Associate, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow
  • 2005-2006 MPhil (Research) in Theology and Religious Studies (Literature and Theology), Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology, and the Arts, University of Glasgow; Academic Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary Foundation
  • 2005 Awarded doctoral degree Dr. theol. at the Protestant-Theological Faculty, University of Bonn
  • 2003-2005 Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Practical Theology, University of Bonn; Scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  • 2002 First Church Exam of the Evangelical Church in Rheinland
  • 1995-2002 Undergraduate study of (Protestant) Theology at the University of Bonn and at the University of Oxford
  • Demut. Konstellationen einer prekären Tugend, Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber 2025 (in Vorbereitung zur Drucklegung).
  • Was wir uns schulden. Freiheit und Pflichten gegen sich selbst (Alber Thesen 85), Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber 2022. 
  • Wahrgenommene Individualität. Eine Theologie der Lebensführung (Edition Wege zum Menschen 3), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014.
  • Klage. Überlegungen zur Linderung reflexiven Leidens (RPT 58), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011. 
  • Vielstimmige Rede vom Unsagbaren. Dekonstruktion, Glaube und Kierkegaards pseudonyme Literatur (KSMS 14), Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2006. 

Here is my full publication list.

  • Theological Anthropology
  • Theological Hermeneutics
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Religionsphilosophie e.V.
  • International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture
  • Kulturhermeneutische Sozietät e.V. (stellv. Vorsitzender)
  • Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie

Advised habilitation projects

Supervised doctoral theses