Dirk Ansorge
Born in 1960 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Dirk Ansorge has held the chair of dogmatics and the history of dogma at the Sankt-Georgen Faculty of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt since 2012. At the same time, he runs the Cardinal Alois Grillmeier Institute for the History of Dogma, Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue, and directs the Albertus Magnus scholarship programme. Since January 2023, he has chaired the Association of Catholic Theology Teachers.
His academic career began at the Ruhr University in Bochum, where he studied Catholic theology and philosophy. He then spent an ecumenical year in Jerusalem, supported by a DAAD scholarship, before immersing himself in the study of Catholic theology at the Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg.
Dirk Ansorge’s passion for the dialogue between faith and reason led him to undertake doctoral research. In 1993, he obtained his doctorate in Catholic theology with a study of the Carolingian theologian Johannes Scottus Eriugena. Ses travaux sont reconnus par le Prix Karl Rahner de l’Université d’Innsbruck.
His academic career has taken him to teaching and research posts throughout Germany and Europe, working in particular on Christology, ecclesiology, the theology of creation and the sacraments.
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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity
- Dirk Ansorge
Abstract Published under the original title “Das erste Konzil von Nizäa (325) und der christlich-muslimische Dialog über Gottes Einheit und Dreifaltigkeit” in issue 2/2025 of CIBEDO-Bei...
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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Human Rights and Democracy
- Dirk Ansorge
Title of the lecture : ‘Embracing the Other: Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri‘s approach to Human Rights and Democracy’ In the Western world, the Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar Muhamma...
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Religious affiliation, belonging and apostasy : a case study of Christian and Moslem conceptions
- Dirk Ansorge
Lecture of Dirk ANSORGE, at the PLURIEL second international Congress in Rome Abstract It is well known that in Christianity – particularly in the European mainline churches – religious affiliation...
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Islamic Visions of Jesus: Revelation, Prophecy, and Eschatology
- Antonio Cuciniello
Abstract Published in the collective volume Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem, edited by Emma O'Donnell Polyakov (Blo...
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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "Cuestiones sobre la soteriología islámica en el islam primitivo" in the collective volume Riesgos y fidelidades. Miradas teológicas para un mundo plu...
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The Uncreated Muslim Qur’an and the Eternally Begotten Christian Logos
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "El Corán musulmán increado y el Logos cristiano eternamente engendrado" in the monographic section Logos, Agape, Sarx. Una dialógica cristiana of iss...
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Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam
- Roberta Collu Moran
Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam (Le Passeur, 2020) offers an anthropological reading of religious excesses and radicalisation within the ...
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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity
- Dirk Ansorge
Abstract Published under the original title "Das erste Konzil von Nizäa (325) und der christlich-muslimische Dialog über Gottes Einheit und Dreifaltigkeit" in issue 2/2025 of CIBEDO-Beiträge, th...
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Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections
- David Marshall
Abstract Published as "Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections" in a special issue of The Muslim World marking the 50th anniversary of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center (Hartford), th...
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Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Thinker on Multiple Fronts
- Guy-Raymond Sarkis
Abstract Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Sudanese sociologist of religion, is a committed intellectual whose writings both arise from and respond to the challenges of his society. He calls for a liberati...
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Literary, Semiotic and Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur’an in the Modern Period
- Wasim Salman
Abstract In this contribution to issue 51 (Mélanges) of the journal Islamochristiana, published in Italian as Approcci letterari, semiotici ed ermeneutici al Corano nel periodo moderno, Wasim Sa...