Fellow and Tutor in Theology

Johannes Zachhuber

  • I am Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology and Religion.

  • I specialise in two main areas: late ancient Christian theology (together with its philosophical background) and nineteenth-century Christian thought.

  • Before coming to Trinity, I studied at Oxford and then taught theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Teaching

At undergraduate level, I teach the first-year paper Jesus through the Centuries. For the second year, I tutor for the Key Themes in Systematic Theology paper for which I also give lectures and classes in the Faculty of Theology and Religion. I also teach a range of other second and third year options, such as the Sociology of Religion, History and Theology of the Early Church (64-337 A.D.), From Nicaea to Chalcedon, and Themes in 19th-Century Theology & Religion. On the graduate level, I teach for the Masters in Theology and supervise a wide range of research projects related to my own research interests.

Research

My area of specialisation is the intellectual history of Christianity, with a particular focus on both late antiquity and the nineteenth century. I am also interested more broadly in the transformation of religion in the modern world, secularisation, and the relationship of religion and politics.

Vortrag von Johannes Zachhuber: "Ernst Troeltsch's Conception of Mysticism"

Selected Publications

Time and Soul: From Aristotle to Saint Augustine (2022)

The F. C. Baur Reader, co-edited with David Lincicum (2022)

The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics (2020)

Luther’s Christological Legacy (2017)

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, co-edited with Joel Rasmussen and Judith Wolfe (2017)

Sacrifice and Modern Thought, co-edited with Julia Meszaros (2013)

Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany: From F.C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch (2013)

Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical Background and Theological Significance, 2000 (paperback 2014)

Subjects
Theology and Religion
Professor Zachhuber
johannes.zachhuber@trinity.ox.ac.uk

The emerging intellectual culture of late ancient Christianity can be conceptualized as a kind of philosophy within the late ancient context of a plurality of philosophical schools.