Michael Welker

Michael Welker, born in 1947, is a German Protestant theologian. From 1991 to 2013, he was Professor of Systematic Theology at Heidelberg University; from 2005, he also directed its Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT). He has authored or edited around 50 books, including „Gottes Geist“, „Gottes Offenbarung. Christologie“, „Schöpfung und Wirklichkeit“ and „Kirche im Pluralismus“, as well as the English-language works „The Depth of the Human Person“ and „Concepts and Practices of Freedom“. In 2016, he received the Karl Barth Prize.