Alf Christophersen

Alf Christophersen (born 1968) studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Tübingen and Munich. He received his doctorate in 1997, completed his habilitation in 2002, and was ordained in 2006. His academic positions have included a fellowship at Harvard University’s Divinity School (2003–2004), an acting chair in systematic theology and ethics at LMU Munich (2006–2007), and a professorship in systematic theology at the University of Wuppertal. In 1998, he received the Hanns-Lilje Prize for his work on Friedrich Lücke; in 2008, he was awarded the Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences for “Kairos: Protestant Interpretations of Time in the Weimar Republic.”