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Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Theology, University of the Free State

Calvin D. Ullrich is currently senior lecturer in interdisciplinary theology in the Department of Historical and Constructive Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of the Free State, South Africa. He received his PhD in systematic theology from the University of Stellenbosch, with a concentration on political theology and continental philosophy of religion. He was formerly a research fellow at the Ecumenical Institute of the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum Germany, and is currently the principal researcher in a German Research Foundation funded project, investigating phenomenologies of embodiment, affect theory and systematic theology. Alongside the fields of political theology, public theology, embodiment and continental philosophy of religion, he also maintains interests in secular, post-secular studies, radical democratic theory and psychoanalysis.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Theology, University of the Free State
  • 2018–2023
    Research fellow, Ruhr University Bochum

Education

  • 2019 
    Stellenbosch University, PhD (Systematic Theology) - without corrections
  • 2016 
    Stellenbosch University, MTh (Systematic Theology, cum laude)
  • 2014 
    Stellenbosch University, BTh (cum laude)

Publications

  • 2024
    The Body (Dis-)incarnate: Notes on a subterranean theological-phenomenology, UJ Press
  • 2024
    The Eclipse of the Body? Flesh and Matter in French Phenomenology, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
  • 2024
    Beyond the Totality of Religion: Memories of violence, finitude, and the organic, Wipf & Stock
  • 2024
    The Unthinkable Body: Challenges of Embodiment in Religion, Politics, and Ethics, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
  • 2023
    The Future of Nothingness: Plastic Apocalypticism or an Insistent Messianic?, Stellenbosch Theological Journal
  • 2023
    The Singularity of AI? Toward a new philosophical-theological intelligence, Stellenbosch Theological Journal
  • 2023
    The Spread Body and the Affective Body: A Discussion with Emmanuel Falque, Religions, MDPI
  • 2022
    Radical Theology as Political Theology: Exploring the Fragments of God’s Weak Power, Rowman and Littlefield
  • 2022
    Political Theology in South Africa?, Journal of Systematic Theology
  • 2021
    Philosophy and Theology: Reviews from Stellenbosch — Proposals from Paris, Stellenbosch Theological Journal
  • 2021
    Sovereignty and Event: The Political in John D. Caputo’s Radical Theology , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
  • 2021
    Theopoetics from Below: A South African Black Christological Encounter with Radical Theology, Black Theology: An International Journal (Routledge)
  • 2020
    On Caputo’s Heidegger: A Prolegomenon of Transgressions to a Religion without Religion, Open Theology
  • 2020
    Theopoetics to Theopraxis: Toward a Critchlean Supplement to John D. Caputo’s Radical Political Theology, Forum Philosophicum
  • 2020
    A Caputian Reading of David Newheiser’s ‘Hope In A Secular Age’, Crossing: The INPR Journal
  • 2018
    Carl Schmitt, Key Concepts: Katechon, Critical Legal Thinking
  • 2017
    Simon Critchley, John D. Caputo and Radical Political Theology, Routledge: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology
  • 2017
    Experiments in (Radical) Public Theology: In conversation with Critchley and Caputo, International Journal of Public Theology

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    DFG - Eigene Stelle
    Role:
    Principle Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • 2022
    Manfred Lautenschläger Award
    Role:
    Award Winner
    Funding Source:
    FIIT – University of Heidelberg
  • 2020
    German Research Foundation – International Scientific Events Funding
    Role:
    Principle Researcher
    Funding Source:
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • 2018
    Baden-Württemberg Stipendium
    Role:
    Grant Awardee
    Funding Source:
    Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
  • 2017
    Giovanni Omodeo Project Funding
    Role:
    Grant Awardee
    Funding Source:
    Giovanni Omodeo Stiftung
  • 2017
    HB & MJ Thom Scholarship
    Role:
    Scholarship Awardee
    Funding Source:
    HB & MJ Thom Trust

Professional Memberships

  • The International Network for Philosophy of Religion
  • Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology
  • Centre for Phenomenology, South Africa
  • South African Theological Society (TSSA)

Honours

German Research Foundation (Principal Investigator), NRF-Rated Researcher (Y1)