Dr. Domenik Ackermann

Zentrum für Komparative Theologie und Kulturwissenschaften (ZeKK)

Research Associate

Projekt zum Transfer komparativer Theologie in die Gesellschaft

Office Address:
Technologiepark 6
33100 Paderborn
Room:
TP6.0.301
Office hours:

montags 9-12 Uhr

mittwochs 9-12 Uhr

About Domenik Ackermann

Domenik Ackermann is a post-doctoral research fellow at Paderborn University. He studied Protestant Theology in Göttingen, Heidelberg and Beirut (Lebanon) and completed his Ph.D. in Theology at Boston College Jewish-Christian Comparative Theology. His dissertation, "PRayer and Memory. What Christian Theology Can Learn from Jewish Practice," analyzes Jewish understandings and experiences of prayer and brings them into dialogue with Christian thinkers Jean-Louis Chrétien and Johann Baptist Metz. Ackermann's research interests include Comparative Theological hermeneutics, interreligious dialogue with Judaism and Islam, and Ecumenical Studies. 

Curriculum Vitae

2018 - 2024: Boston College, Theology Department

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Comparative Theology

Akademic Advisor: Prof. Ruth Langer, Ph.D.

Dissertation: Prayer and Memory: What Christian Theology Can Learn from Jewish Practice

2021: Ordination ins Pfarramt

06/2019: Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel)

Guest Researcher

Modern Hebrew Language Course

2018: Erstes Theologisches Examen (Hannover)

2018: Magister Theologiae (M. Theol.)

31.08.2014 - 01.06.2015: Near East School of Theology, Beirut (Lebanon)

Studies in the Middle East (SiMO) program

sponsored by the Evangelical Mission in Solidarity (EMS) and the Lutheran World Federation. 

01.04.2014 - 31.08.2014: University of Heidelberg (Germany)

Protestant Theology (Magister Theologiae)

01.10.2010 - 31.03.2014: University of Göttingen (Germany)

Protestant Theology (Magister Theologiae)

01/2025: Doing Comparative Theology with Children's Books? A Case in Transferring Comparative Theology into Society

Alway Symposium at the University of Toronto/Emmanuel College, Toronto, Canada

10/2024: Where is the truth? A Dialogue with Nathan the Wise

Cultural Studies in Dialogue, Paderborn University, Paderborn

09/2024: The hermeneutical Problem of Truth in Comparative Theological Engagement with Judaism and Islam

Annual Meeting of the Deutscher Arbeitskreis Vorderer Orient, Göttingen, Germany

06/2024: Chavruta as Hermeneutical Framework for Jewish-Christian Dialogue

International Meeting of Comparative Theology in Paderborn, (virtuell)

11/2021: Preparing the Incense. Jewish Mystical Perspectives on Disease and Healing

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio, TX.

03/2021: Memory in the Passover Seder - Insights for a Christian

18. Engaging Particularities Conference, Boston, MA,

04/2020: The Souls of the Trees Cried Out to Me - Earth Day and Tu-Bishvat.

Tenth Religion in Society Conference, Vancouver, Canada (virtuell)

03/2020: An Inter-Religious Commemoration of the Shoah?

Inter-Ritual Conference of the Society of Theology, Glasgow

2021: Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award

08/2020 - 01/2024: Pastor in the United Church of Christ (UCC)

West Parish Church in Andover, MA

The Eliot Church of Newton

Teaching


Current Courses

  • Christliche Dogmatik in religiöser Vielfalt

Scientific Engagement

2018 - 2023  |  Engaging Particularities

Graduate Student Conference for Comparative Theology at Boston College

Board Member


Since 2024  |  Society for the Study of Theology


Since 2023  |  Catholic Theological Society of America


Since 12/2018  |  American Academy of Religion (AAR)


Since 2018  |  American Academy of Religion