Claudia Welz

Professor with special responsibilities

'Afdelinger', Department of Systematic Theology
Købmagergade 46, 3. sal
1150 København K.

Office: 354
Phone: +45 353-23682
Phone (Reception desk): +45 353-23676
E-mail: cwe@teol.ku.dk

Primary research areas

• Hermeneutics, ethics, and philosophy of religion
• Kierkegaard research with special consideration of the philosophical and biblical con- and subtexts
• German and French phenomenology
• Jewish philosophy of religion and Jewish-German literature
• Theology of the Reformation and theological anthropology
• Theories of subjectivity, self-understanding, and personhood
• Philosophy of emotion
• Philosophy of psychology and psychiatry

Current research

Project 1: “Conscience, Self-Disclosure and Self-Deception: Emotion – Memory – Identity”

Project 2: “Imago Dei - A Self-Concealing Image” (authored volume) and "Ethics of In-Visibility: Imago Dei, Memory, and Human Dignity" (edited and co-authored volume)

Project 3: “Freedom and Fallibility: From Luther to Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Ricoeur”

Project 4: “Paradoxical Powers of Powerlessness: Trauma, Delusion, and Self-Surrender”

Project 5: “Post-Holocaust Theology and Poetry”

Projekt 6: "Inderlighed som udvej - bønnens teologi og fænomenologi"

Teaching

See: Primary research areas

Selected publications

• Welz, C 2011, ' Shame and the Hiding Self ' Passions in Context: International Journal for the History and Theory of Emotions , vol nr. 2: Atrocities – Emotion – Self .

• Welz, C 2011, ' Franz Rosenzweig: A Kindred Spirit in Alignment with Kierkegaard '. in J Stewart (ed.), Kierkegaard and Existentialism (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources 9). Ashgate, Burlington, pp. 299-321.

• Welz, C 2011, ' Imago Dei - References to the Invisible ' Studia Theologica , vol 65, no. 1, pp. 74-91.

• Welz, C 2011, ' The Self as Site of Conflicts: Guilt, Recognition, and Reconciliation '. in IU Dalferth & H Schulz (eds), Religion und Konfikt: Grundlagen und Fallanalysen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, pp. 137-164.

• Welz, C 2010, ' Identity as Self-Transformation: Emotional Conflicts and their Metamorphosis in Memory ' Continental Philosophy Review , vol 43, no. 2, pp. 267-285.

• Grøn, A & Welz, C (eds) 2010, Trust, Sociality, Selfhood . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen. Religion in Philosophy and Theology, no. 52

• Welz, C 2010, Vertrauen und Versuchung . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen. Religion in Philosophy and Theology, no. 51

• Welz, C 2008, ' God - A Phenomenon?: Theology as Semiotic Phenomenology of the Invisible ' Studia Theologica , vol 62, no. 1, pp. 4-24.

• Welz, C (ed.) 2008, Despite Oneself: Subjectivity and Its Secret in Kierkegaard and Levinas . Turnshare, London.

• Welz, C 2008, Love's Transcendence and the Problem of Theodicy . vol. 30, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen. Religion in philosophy and theology, no. 30

• Welz, C 2007, ' How to Comprehend Incomprehensible Love?: Kierkegaard Research and Philosophy of Emotion ' Kierkegaardiana , vol 24.

• Welz, C 2007, ' Reasons for Having No Reason to Defend God - Kant, Kierkegaard, Levinas and their Alternatives to Theodicy '. in HM Vroom (ed.), Wrestling with God and with Evil. Philosophical Reflections. Rodopi Press, Amsterdam/New York, pp. 167-186.