WCAS Department of German: People: Helmer

Christine Helmer teaches Christian theology and has published especially in the field of classical Protestant theology. After completing her doctorate at Yale, and holding a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tübingen, she has taught at the Claremont School of Theology from 2000 to 2005, and has been Senior Scholar in Theology at Harvard Divinity School in 2005-07.

Her first book was "The Trinity and Martin Luther: A Study on the Relationship between Genre, Language and the Trinity in Luther’s Works (1523-1546)" (Philipp von Zabern, 1999). She is completing "The Dialektik and the Canon: Schleiermacher’s Theological Systematicity". She is also editor or co-editor of "Biblischer Text und theologische Theoriebildung" (Neukirchener Verlag, 2001), "Schleiermachers Dialektik: Die Liebe zum Wissen in Philosophie und Theologie" (Mohr Siebeck, 2003), Truth: Interdisciplinary Dialogues in a Pluralist Age" (Peeters, 2003), "One Scripture or Many? Canon from Biblical, Theological, and Philosophical Perspectives" (Oxford, 2004), "Schleiermacher and Whitehead: Open Systems in Dialogue" (Walter de Gruyter, 2004), "Biblical Interpretation: History, Context, and Reality" (SBL, 2005), and "The Multivalence of Biblical Texts and Theological Meanings" (SBL, 2006). She has translated numerous theological articles from German into English. She is founder and chair of the Liberal Theologies Consultation for the American Academy of Religion.

Professor Helmer is currently working on two book projects to be published by Fortress Press, an edited collection that locates Martin Luther in global perspective and a study of Luther’s theology to be entitled "Luther’s Dangerous Doctrines".