Notes on Contributors ⸪

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David N. Field Ph.D. University of Cape Town, is a South African who is presently living in Switzerland. His major research interest are political/public theologies within the context of the Methodist tradition, the theology and ethics of John Wesley, the theology and ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and eco-theology. As academic coordinator of the Methodist e-Academy he oversees supplementary and fur- ther education courses or Methodist clergy from across Europe.

Dion A. Forster D.Th, Ph.D, is the Director of the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology and the Chair of the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at Stellenbosch University. He teaches Systematic Theology and Ethics with a focus on Public Theologies. His most recent book focusses on the politics of forgiveness in South Africa and is entitled, The (im)Possibility of Forgiveness? (SUN media, 2017).

Kjetil Fretheim is Prorector and Professor of Ethics and Diaconal Studies at MF Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo. Fretheim is the author of Interruption and Imagination. Public Theology in Times of Crisis (Pickwick Publishing, 2016). He has edited and co-edited books on human rights, intercultural communication and church research, and published peer-reviewed articles on public theology, diaconia, development ethics, and religion and development.

Piet Naude studied philosophy and theology at Stellenbosch University. He is the former Vice-Rector: Academic at Nelson Mandela University and currently Director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School.

Stan du Plessis is the Chief Operating Officer of Stellenbosch University and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. He is a macroeconomist and Professor of Economics at Stellenbosch. He studied at the Universities of Cambridge, Stellenbosch and the Wharton Business School and is a former President of the Economic Society of South Africa.

Christine Schliesser is a theological ethicist at the Center for Ethics, Zurich University, Switzerland, and a research fellow at Studies for Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests include conflict and reconciliation studies, public theology and the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Her most recent book is Alternative Approaches in Conflict Resolution, (Palgrave 2018) edited with Martin Leiner.

Rudolf von Sinner was born in Basel, Switzerland. He earned his doctorate in Theology at the University of Basel in 2001 and his habilitation in Systematic Theology at the University of Bern in 2010. Since 2003, he has been Professor of Systematic Theology, Ecumenism and Inter-religious Dialogue at Faculdades EST in São Leopoldo, Brazil, where he is also Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Research and Director of the Ethics Institute. Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, he is moderator of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on Education and Ecumenical Formation. His main fields of research are public theology, religious pluralism in the secular state, ecumenical and inter-religious hermeneutics, bioethics, political ethics and the doctrine of the Trinity.

Calvin Dieter Ullrich is a doctoral candidate at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is completing a project involving an analysis of the political-theological notion of sovereignty, read alongside the postmodern theology of John D. Caputo. His academic interests include continental philosophy of religion, political theology and deconstruction.

Etienne de Villiers was formerly Professor of Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology as well as Director of the Centre for Public Theology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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