Dirk Evers
Professor
Department of Theology
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
Germany
Biography
"Born in 1962, married, five children 1983-1989: Study of theology in Münster, Tübingen and Madurai (South India) 1989: First Qualifying Examination of Theology ( Theological service exam ) 1989-1991: Vicar (Pastor-in-training) at Wuerttemberg Regional Church 1991: Second Qualifying Examination of Theology, ordination 1991-1994: Parish vicar at Wuerttemberg Regional Church 1994-2005: Assistant to the Ephorus of the Evangelical Foundation in Tübingen, Prof. dr. Dr.hc Eberhard Jüngel DD 1999: Doctorate in theology (awarded the 2002 ESSSAT prize of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology) 2005: Repetitor (Tutor) at the Evangelical Foundation, Tübingen 2005: Habilitation (in systematic theology) 2005-2010: Director of Research and Academic Studies at SCIENTIARUM, University of Tübingen and the Director of Studies at Karl-Heim-Haus 2008: Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Zurich (substituting for Prof. I. Dalferth) 2009 Awarded the Bad Herrenalber Academy Prize Since 1.10.2010: Professor of Systematic Theology / Dogmatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Liaison Professor of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Since 2014: President of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) Research Associate of the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics , Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa (Prof. Danie Veldsman, Project on Religious Experience from Evolutionary Perspectives)"
Research Interest
"Protestant Dogmatics Relationship of Theology to the Natural Sciences (Cosmology, Evolution Theory, Brain Research, Physics and Natural Philosophy in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries) Philosophy of Religion (esp. Leibniz, Kant, analytic philosophy, modal logic) Theories of Consciousness"
