Prof. Dr. Michael Seewald

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of Dogmatic Theology and the History of Dogma (Prof. Seewald)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Theology of the Age of Enlightenment (late 17th to early 19th century)
  • Theories of doctrinal development
  • Stability and Dynamics of religious concepts of humanity
  • Religious, specifically Catholic theological conceptions of politics
  • Methods of ecumenical and interreligious theology

Academic Education

2015Habilitation (postdoctoral degree) in Dogmatics and Ecumenical Theology at the University of Munich (LMU)
2011Doctorate (Dr. theol.) at the University of Munich (LMU)
2009 - 2011Promotionsstudium in München und als Visiting Scholar am Boston College
2009First Academic Degree ("Diplom") in Catholic Theology and Magister Artium (M.A.) in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Tübingen
2005 - 2009Study of Catholic Theology, Philosophy and Politics at the Universities of Tübingen, Pune and Frankfurt am Main

Work Experience

since 2017Professor of Dogmatic Theology and the History of Dogma at the University of Münster
2016 - 2017Substitute Professor (Lehrstuhlvertreter) in Dogmatic Theology and Theological Propedeutics at the University of Bonn
2011 - 2017Dozent für Theologische Propädeutik und Theologiegeschichte am Ambrosianum Tübingen
2012 - 2016Research Assistant at the Ecumenical Research Institute of the University of Munich (LMU)
2012 - 2016Visiting Professor for Systematic Theology am Saint John's Seminary in Boston

Appointments

2017Offer to a Professorship for Dogmatic (W3) , University of Paderborn (rejected)
2016Offer to a Professorship for Dogmatic Theology and the History of Dogma (W3) , University of Münster (accepted)

Publications

Seewald, Michael; Bauer, Thomas; Bodenheimer, Alfred (2024)
Paris: Éditions Fenêtres.
Type of Publication: Translation of a monograph
Seewald, Michael (2024)
In: Internationale Katholische Zeitschrift Communio, 53
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Seewald, Michael (eds.) (2024)
São Paulo: Edições Loyola .
Type of Publication: Book (edited collection)
Seewald, Michael (2024)
Kraków: Wydawnictwo WAM.
Type of Publication: Translation of a monograph
Seewald, Michael (2024)
Pannonhalma: Pannonhalmi Főapátság Közhasznú Alapítvány.
Type of Publication: Translation of a monograph
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Projects

Duration: 01/06/2022 - 31/12/2023
Funded by: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programs
Type of project: Internally at the University of Münster funded project
Duration: 01/10/2020 - 31/12/2021
Funded by: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programs
Type of project: Internally at the University of Münster funded project
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Prizes

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2017
Awarded by: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Award given to: Seewald, Michael
Announced at: 03/05/2017 | Date of awarding: 01/01/2017
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Karl Rahner Prize for Theological Research
Awarded by: Karl-Rahner-Foundation, University of Innsbruck
Award given to: Seewald, Michael
Announced at: 01/01/2016 | Date of awarding: 01/01/2016
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Kardinal Wetter Prize for Outstanding Theological Doctoral and Postdoctoral Dissertations
Awarded by: Catholic Academy of Bavaria
Award given to: Seewald, Michael
Date of awarding: 01/01/2011
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction