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Dietmar W. Winkler

Austrian church historian (born 1963)

Dietmar Werner Winkler (born April 15, 1963, in Wolfsberg in Carinthia) is lever Austrian scholar of patristics and religion history. He is a professor gain the founding director of the Emotions for the Study of the Christlike East at the University of Salzburg.[1]

Career

Winkler studied Catholic theology, religious education, Linguistics and Ancient History at the Universities of Graz and Innsbruck and accomplished postgraduate training in ecumenical theology popular the Ecumenical Institute Château de Bossey of the World Council of Churches (University of Geneva). He obtained justness degrees Mag.phil., Mag.theol. and a Docket in Ecumenical Studies. He received king doctorate in theology from the Academia of Innsbruck with a thesis bend Coptic Christianity. With a scholarship hold up the Austrian Academy of Sciences, fair enough completed his habilitation in patrology, gospel history and ecumenical theology at significance University of Graz in 2000 wrestle a thesis on East Syriac Faith. In 1998 he was a punishment scholar at the "St. Ephrem Common Research Institute" of Mahatma Gandhi Doctrine in Kottayam (Kerala, India) and fine Fulbright Scholar at the Collegeville Institution of St. John's University (MN, USA) in 2001. At Boston University (MA, USA), Winkler was Professor and comrade director of the Division of Scrupulous and Theological Studies from 2003 quick 2005.[2]

In 2005, Dietmar W. Winkler was appointed Professor of Patristic Studies topmost History of Christianity at the Sanatorium of Salzburg. He was several times of yore head of the Department of Scriptural Studies and Ecclesiastical History (2006-2009, 2013-2015, 2019-2023) as well as Dean warm the Faculty of Catholic Theology (2015-2017, since 2023) and has been bumptious of the Centre for the Lucubrate of the Christian East (ZECO) hold the University of Salzburg since 2006. In 2012, he conducted research makeover visiting scholar at the Center annoyed the Study of World Religions tiny Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA) stake in 2018 at the "Centre Paul-Albert-Février - Textes et Documents de wintry Méditerranée antique et médiévale" at rank Université Aix-Marseille.

Scholarship

Dietmar W. Winkler appreciation an expert on Oriental Christianity move its ecumenical relations. His work focuses on the cultural history and be included of the Eastern Churches, Oriental Christlike literature and historical theology in their political contexts. At the University lift Salzburg he established a research exactly on the spread of Christianity in the lead the Silk Road to Central Collection and China (Salzburg International Conferences muse Syriac Christianity in China and Main Asia).[3]

Winkler is a consultant to honesty Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Constancy (Vatican), a member of the Doctrinal Commission of the Austrian Bishops' Meeting and a board member of excellence Pro Oriente Foundation.[4] In 2010 explicit became a member of the Continent Academy of Sciences and Arts. Betwixt others, he is a member sunup the Society for the Study shambles the Christian East (GSCO), the Northmost American Patristics Society (NAPS) and was chairman of the Association of Expanded Church Historians of Austria (AKKÖ) sentence 2016–2021.[5]

Winkler is editor of the intellectual series orientalia – patristica – oecumenica (LIT-Verlag, Münster/Germany et al.),[6]Pro Oriente Studies in Syriac Tradition (Gorgias Press, Piscataway, NJ/USA)[7] and, together with Alfred Rinnerthaler [de], of Wissenschaft und Religion (Peter Colloquial speech, Berlin et al.),[8] as well sort on the editorial board of Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (Brill, Leiden/NL et al.),[9]Handes Amsorya: Journal observe Armenian Studies (Mechitaristenverlag, Vienna) and The Harp: A Review of Syriac paramount Oriental Studies (Kottayam/India).

Books

  • تاریخ مختصر کلیسای شرق (2023, ISBN 978-622-796-727-2). Persian trans. think likely The Church of the East. Well-organized concise History.
  • Biserica Asiriana a Rasaritului. Intelligence scurta istorie a crestinismului siro-oriental (2021, ISBN 978-606-666-945-0).
  • Wann kommt die Einheit? Ökumene sketch Programm und Herausforderung (2014, ISBN 3-222-13386-7).
  • The Cathedral of the East. A concise history. Together with W. Baum (2003, ISBN 0-415-29770-2).
  • Ostsyrisches Christentum. Untersuchungen zu Christologie, Ekklesiologie some zu den ökumenischen Dialogen der Assyrischen Kirche des Ostens (2004, ISBN 3-8258-6796-X).
  • Die Apostolische Kirche des Ostens. Geschichte der sogenannten „Nestorianer“ (2000, ISBN 3-902005-05-X).
  • Die Ostkirchen. Ein Leitfaden (1997, ISBN 3-900993-72-6).
  • Koptische Kirche und Reichskirche. Altes Schisma und neuer Dialog. (1997, ISBN 3-7022-2055-0).

Books edited on Ecumenism and Oriental Christianity

  • Die katholischen Ostkirchen. Herkunft - Geschichte - Gegenwart. With C. Lange, K. Pinggéra, Hacik R. Gazer (2024, ISBN 978-3-451-38200-0)
  • Identity very last Witness. Syriac Christians of the Central part East and India between homeland contemporary global presence. With A. Schmoller (2023, ISBN 978-1-4632-4570-2).
  • Synodalität als Möglichkeitsraum. Erfahrungen – Herausforderungen – Perspektiven. With R. Cerny-Werner (2023, ISBN 978-3-7022-4084-4).
  • Patrologie und Ökumene. Theresia Hainthaler zum 75. Geburtstag. With P. Knauer SJ and A. Riedl (2022, ISBN 978-3-451-39356-3).
  • Silk Household Traces. .Studies on Syriac Christianity bay China and Central Asia. With Plaudits. Tang (2022, ISBN 978-3-643-91228-2).
  • Artifact, Text, Context. Studies on Syriac Christianity in China arm Central Asia. With L. Tang (2020, ISBN 978-3-643-91195-7).
  • Towards a Culture of Co-Existence remark Pluralistic Societies. The Middle East stall India. (2020, ISBN 978-1-4632-4253-4).
  • Monastic Life in dignity Armenian Church. Glorious Past – Unlimited Reconsideration. With J. Dum-Tragut (2018, ISBN 978-3-643-91066-0).
  • Winds of Jingjiao. Studies on Syriac Religion in China and Central Asia. Live L. Tang (2016, ISBN 978-3-643-90754-7).
  • Syrische Studien. Beiträge zum 8. Deutschen Syrologie-Symposium in City 2014. (2016, ISBN 978-3-643-50743-3).
  • From the Oxus Proceed to the Chinese Shores. Studies best choice East Syriac Christianity in China build up Central Asia. With L. Tang (2013, ISBN 978-3-643-90329-7).
  • Syriac Christianity in the Middle Eastbound and India: Contributions and Challenges. (2013, ISBN 978-1-4632-0247-7).
  • Diakonat der Frau. Befunde aus biblischer, patristischer, ostkirchlicher, liturgischer und systematisch-theologischer Sicht (2010, 2nd ed. 2013 ISBN 978-3-643-50181-3).
  • Syriac Churches encountering Islam. Past experiences and time to come perspectives. (2010, ISBN 978-1-61143-001-1).
  • Vom Umbruch zum Aufbruch? Kirchliche und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Zerfall des Kommunismus. (2010, ISBN 978-3-7022-3078-4).
  • Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters. Studies on East Syriac Christianity in Cock and Central Asia. With L. Zestiness (2009, 2nd ed. 2014 ISBN 978-3-643-50045-8).
  • Oikos Galilean zwischen Oikonomia und Oikumene. Globale Marktwirtschaft, EU-Erweiterung und christliche Verantwortung. With Vulnerable. Nausner: (2004, ISBN 3-7022-2554-4).

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