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Tobias Specker

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Born in 1971, Tobias Specker is a professor of “Catholic Theology in the Face of Islam” at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt. As a Jesuit, he studied German literature, Catholic theology, and Islamic studies in Freiburg, Bochum, and Frankfurt. He holds a Ph.D. in theology with a thesis on Jean-Luc Marion and a diploma in Islamic theology with a study on the figure of Paul in Muslim thought. His habilitation thesis deals with Christian theology of revelation in dialogue with Islamic positions on the inimitability of the Qur’an. Since 2021, he has also been the superior of the Jesuit community of Sankt Georgen. Involved in numerous interreligious dialogue networks, he is an advisor to the sub-commission for interreligious dialogue of the German Bishops’ Conference and editor-in-chief of GEORG magazine. He has received several awards for his work on Christian-Muslim dialogue.

Disciplines

Quranic Studies Theology

Thématiques

Comparative Studies Islamic Theology Muslim-Christian Dialogue Theology of Religions

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