Professor Ralf Karolus Wüstenberg studied Protestant theology in Berlin, Cambridge and Heidelberg. Dr theol. 1995 (Humboldt Universität Berlin); habilitation and venia legendi in Systematic Theology 2003 (Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg). Since 2009 Chair of Protestant Theology specializing in Systematic and Historical Theology at the European University of Flensburg (EUF) and Director of the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution; at the same time Research Fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge (England) and Stellenbosch (South Africa), previously Visiting Professorships at Union Theological Seminary, New York City (2002/2003) and Freie University of Berlin (2006-2009). In addition to his international research activities, Dr Wüstenberg performs a number of voluntary tasks. Among other things, he is a project ambassador for the House of One in Berlin and, after ordination and parish ministry (2003-2005), has been a permanent guest preacher at Berlin Cathedral since 2018. Dr Wüstenberg is the author and editor of 25 titles in English and German, including introductions to theology and Christology; on current topics such as the political dimension of reconciliation or dialogue with Islam and on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology and ethics.

Selected Publications

Conflict Resolution through Reconciliation: Revisiting the South African TRC and Germany’s dealing with the past after the fall of the Berlin Wall (= Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution Vol 5). WBG in der Herder Verlagsgruppe: Freiburg 2024 (249p.).

Reconciliation, Forgiveness, and Scarring Over, in: Bonhoeffer and the Responsibility for a Coming Generation: Doing Theology in a Time Out of Joint, R. Vosloo/T. Sakupapa/ A. Thyssen, and K. Radler (eds.). London: T&T Clark 2024, 141-149.

Evangelisch-Theologische Zugänge zum Islam – vier Akzentsetzungen, in: CIBEDO-Beiträge 2 (2024), 53-60.

Calvin and Ghazali: Theologies of Creation in Comparative Perspectives, in: Green Theology. Emerging 21st-Century Muslim and Christian Discourses on Ecology, eds. L. Demiri/M. Zaman/T. Winter (= Sapientia Islamica Vol 7). Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck 2024, 130-145.

Transitional Justice in Germany after the Fall of the Wall and in South Africa after the Release of Nelson Mandela, in: Strafrecht und Systemunrecht, Festschrift für Gerhard Werle zum 70. Geburtstag. Mohr-Siebeck: Tübingen 2022, 437-449.

Together with Zeina Barakat et. al.: An Analysis of Public Discourse on Albania’s Transitional Justice System, in: I. Chiluwa (ed.), Discourse and Conflict: Analyzing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peacebuilding. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2021, 413-438.

Ed. with Z. Barakat/T. Münchow: Islam and Democracy – Law, Gender and the West (= Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution Vol 2). WBG publishing: Darmstadt 2022 (250 p.).

The ‚Fall ‘of Mankind. Structural Parallels between the Narratives of Sin in Christianity and Islam, in: "Theological Anthropology in Interreligious Perspective", eds L. Demiri/M. Zaman/T. Winter/Chr. Schwöbel/A. Bodrov (= Sapientia Islamica Vol 5). Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2022, 181-190.

Einander Wahrnehmen. Ein Dialogmodell für die christlich-islamische Begegnung. Gütersloh: Penguin Random House 2021 (192 p.). English publication in preparation.

Islam As Devotion: A journey into the Interior of a Religion. London: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group/Fortress Academic 2019. Transl. Randi H. Lundell (151 p.).

Zu Bonhoeffers Rezeption in Südafrika, in: Bonhoeffer-Handbuch (Chr. Tietz ed.).Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2021, 442-452.

Zum biographischen Selbstverständnis Bonhoeffers, in: Bonhoeffer-Handbuch (Chr. Tietz ed.).Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2021, 106-112.

Religion and Secularity, in: The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (eds. M. Mawson/ Ph. Ziegler). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019, 321-330.

Ed. with J. Beljin: Verständigung und Versöhnung. Beiträge von Kirche, Religion und Politik 70 Jahre nach Kriegsende (= Beihefte 2016 zur Berliner Theologischen Zeitschrift). Leipzig: Ev. Verlagsanstalt 2017 (148 p.).

Ed. with K. Busch-Nielsen/J. Zimmermann: Dem Rad in die Speichen fallen. Das Politische in der Theologie Dietrich Bonhoeffers/A spoke in the Wheel. The political in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2013 (464 p.).

Ed. with J. Zimmermann: God speaks to us. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Biblical Hermeneutics (= International Bonhoeffer Interpretations Vol 5), Frankfurt/M. et al.: Peter Lang 2013 (354 p.).

Ed. with M. Bongardt: Versöhnung, Strafe und Gerechtigkeit. Das schwere Erbe von Unrechtsstaaten (= Kontexte. Neue Beiträge zur historischen und systematischen Theologie Bd. 40). Göttingen: Edition Ruprecht 2010 (197 p.).

The Political Dimension of Reconciliation. A Theological Analysis of Ways of Dealing with Guilt during the Transition to Democracy in South Africa and (East) Germany, (transl. Randi Lundell). Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans 2009 (434 p.).

Ed. with S. Heuser/E. Hornung: Bonhoeffer and the Biosciences (= International Bonhoeffer Interpretations Vol 3), Frankfurt/M. et al.: Peter Lang 2010 (183 p.).

Ed. with S. Plant: Religion, Religionlessness and the Church. Reading Bonhoeffer in the 21^st Century (= International Bonhoeffer Interpretations Vol 1). Frankfurt/M. et al.: Peter Lang 2008 (130 p.).

A Theology of Life. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity, Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans 1998 (160p.).