Prof. Dr. Christian Albrecht

Specialist Fields

Specialist fields in the following sub-divisions of Practical Theology: Principles of Theology, Homiletics, Poimenics, Liturgics, Diaconics, Cybernetics, Religious and Pastoral Education, Pastoral Theology, Theory of Art and Media.

Further focal areas:

• History of practical theology
• Encyclopedia of practical theology
• Theory of practical theological education
• Theory of causality
• Practical theological interpretations of structural change in the church
• History of theology in the 19th and 20th centuries
• History of the works of Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)
• History of the works of Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923)
• Theology and religious science
• Practical theology and ethics

Membership of and Participation in Scientific Associations

• Co-editor of the critical edition of Ernst Troeltsch's collected works (published by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin)
• Co-editor of the series "Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte" (published by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin)
• Co-editor of the series "Praktische Theologie in Geschichte und Gegenwart" (published by Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen)
• Elected member of the Commission for Theological Research of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• Member of the Schleiermacher-Gesellschaft
• Member of the Ernst-Troeltsch-Gesellschaft 
• Member of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie (Practical Theology Commission)
• Member of the German Thomas Mann Society
• Member of the Arbeitskreis Christentumstheorie

Functions

• Research Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology
• Chairman of the Trägerverein des Instituts Technik-Theologie-Naturwissenschaften an der LMU