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Curriculum Vitae

HARTMUT VON SASS

PERSONAL DATA Hartmut von Sass, PD Dr.theol.habil., MA. born January 28 1980 in Rostock, Germany

office: Schmelzbergstrasse 25 Collegium Helveticum 8006 Zurich Switzerland

mail: vonsass@collegium.ethz.ch

CURRENT POSITIONS Associate Professor (‚Privatdozent’) for Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zurich Deputy Director of the Collegium Helveticum, an Interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Studies, ETH & University of Zurich Leader of the Ludwik-Fleck-Center for Philosophy of Science, ETH & University of Zurich

DEGREES Dipl. theol. MA. phil. Dr. theol. Dr. theol. habil.

Humboldt-University Berlin, 2005 Humboldt-University Berlin, 2006 University of Zurich, 2009 University of Zurich, 2012

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STUDIES 1999–2006 February 2005 September 2006

Studies in Protestant Theology and Philosophy at the Universities of Goettingen, Edinburgh, and Berlin (Humboldt & Free University) Diplom in Protestant Theology (Berlin, HU) Thesis: „Entmythologisierung als Aufgabe der Theologie? Das Programm Rudolf Bultmanns in systematischer Perspektive” (supervised by Prof. Dr. Johannes Zachhuber, now Oxford, Trinity College) Magister Artium in Philosophy (Berlin, HU) Thesis: „Skepsis und Glaube. Eine analytische Untersuchung zur Religionsphilosophie von David Hume” (supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Volker Gerhardt)

PROMOTION 2006–2009 Defense 11 Dezember 2009

Dissertation in Systematic Theology / Philosophy of Religion with the thesis Sprachspiele des Glaubens (Language-Games of Faith) summa cum laude; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ingolf U. Dalferth (Zurich / Claremont)

HABILITATION (SENIOR DOCTORATE) 2009–2012 Habilitation lecture 14 December 2012

theological ‚Habilitation’ with the thesis Gott als Ereignis des Seins (God as Being’s Event) Topic: „Vergeben und Vergessen. Über eine vernachlässigte Dimension der Soteriologie” (Forgiving and Forgetting)

SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS 2000–2005 March 2006

Scholar of the Protestant Council, Villigst e.V. Accepted as Doctoral Student at Trinity College, University Oxford (declined for the assistentship at the University of Zurich)

April 2010

Annual Award of the University of Zurich, Faculty of Theology

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May 2010 January–August 2012

Elected to serve as Associate Fellow at Collegium Helveticum, Zurich Research Grant for PostDocs, University of Zurich

ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2006–2013 2010–2015 April 2013 October 2013– July 2014 Since March 2015

(Senior)Assistent to the Chair for Systematic Theology, Symbolics, and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zurich (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ingolf U. Dalferth) Associate Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum, Zürich Awarded the title of an Associate Professor and venia legendi for Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion Fixed-term full professorship (W3) for Theological Ethics Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany Vice Director of the Collegium Helveticum, an Interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Studies, ETH & Uni Zurich Leader of the Ludwik-Fleck-Center for Philosophy of Science, ETH & Uni Zurich

RESEARCH STAYS ABROAD January–July 2009 January–June 2012 July–Nov. 2014

Visiting Scholar at Claremont Graduate University, School of Religion (California, USA) Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought & Trinity College Visiting Scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena (California, USA)

MEMBERSHIPS 2008– 2008– 2008–

Rudolf-Bultmann-Gesellschaft Deutsche Gesellschaft für Religionsphilosophie European Society for Philosophy of Religion

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June 2017

Hartmut von Sass

2009– 2010– 2011– 2012– 2013– 2014–

American Academy of Religion Paul-Tillich-Gesellschaft Gesellschaft für Evangelische Theologie Deutscher Hochschulverband The Mystical Theology Network. British Division Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie

ACADEMIC FOCUS AoS AoC

_ Dogmatics (Doctrine of God, Soteriology, Eschatology, Theology of Culture, Political Theology, Theological Anthropology, Secularisation and Atheism) _ Philosophy of Religion (Post/Analytic Tradition, esp. Heidegger and Wittgenstein, Non/Existence of God, Theology of Prayer and Hope, Faith and Emotions, Philosophy of Orientation) _ Hermeneutics (classical and analytic Hermeneutics, Anti-Hermeneutics, Identity and Narrativity). _ Philosophy of Language (Wittgenstein and Ordinary Language Philosophy, Language and Silence, Indexicals, Theories of Metaphors)

_ Philosophy of Science (Constructivism, Theories of Relativism, Realism, Hermeneutics of Comparison) _ Ethics (Theological Ethics, Peace Ethics, Theories of Pacifism, Virtue Ethics, Metaethics)