Emil Lusser, MTh

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Employment

  • Since Mar 2021: Project Associate and Research Assistant at "FWF-project Edition Paul Tillich’s Correspondence 1887-1933" at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna
  • Mar 2019-Feb 2021: Student Assistant at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna
  • May 2017-Feb 2019: Student Project Associate at "FWF-project, Edition of F.W.J. Schelling’s Writings to the Controversy about Theism (1812)" at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna

Education

  • Nov 2019-Feb 2021: Master of Protestant Theology at the University of Vienna; Thesis: "Paul Tillich’s Understanding of Religion and Culture (1919-1925)"
  • Mar 2016-Nov 2019: Bachelor of Protestant Theology

Areas of Research

Dissertation Project

  • "Revelation and History in Adolf Schlatter, Wilhelm Lütgert, and Paul Tillich" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Danz)

Areas of Interest

  • History of Theology and Philosophy in the 19th and 20th Century
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of History
  • Theology of Creation
  • Christology since the Enlightenment

Awards/Fellowships/Stipends

  • 2022: Fellow of the North American Paul Tillich Society
  • 2022: Funding Program "International Communication" of the Austrian Research Foundation
  • 2022: Winner of the Sponsorship award of the Adolf Schlatter Foundation with a paper on "Adolf Schlatter’s Discussion of Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans (1922)"

Professional Associations

  • American Academy of Religion (AAR)
  • Deutsche Paul-Tillich-Gesellschaft (DPTG)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Religionsphilosophie (DGR)
  • European Society for Philosophy of Religion (ESPR)
  • North American Paul Tillich Society (NAPTS)

Teaching Experience

  • WS 2022/23: Dogmatikseminar - Christologie im Kontext des Interreligiösen Dialogs (with Prof. Dr. Christian Danz and Dr. André Ritter)

Publications

Book Reviews

  • "Sabrina Söchtig: Absolute Wahrheit und Religion. Der Wahrheitsbegriff des frühen Tillich und seine Beurteilung außerchristlicher Religionen". In: International Yearbook for Tillich Research, No. 15 (2022), 278–282.
  • "Samuel Andrew Shearn: Pastor Tillich. The Justification of the Doubter". In: International Yearbook for Tillich Research, No. 15 (2022), 292–296.

Selected Conference Presentations

  • "Christology between Idealism and the Gospel of John: Christ as the Image of the Religious Consciousness in Paul Tillich and Wilhelm Lütgert", at the Annual Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society/American Academy of Religion, Denver (USA), Nov 18th 2022.
  • "Is Fundamentalism an Expression of Sin? A Reread of Paul Tillich’s Concept of the Demonic through the Lenses of Thomas Bauer’s Theory of Unitarization", at the Annual Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society/American Academy of Religion, Denver (USA), Nov 18th 2022.
  • "Kairos, History, Ethos: A Relecture of Paul Tillich’s and Karl Barth’s Debate about the Relevance of History for Theological Ethics", at the 23rd Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion “God, Time, and Change", Oxford (UK), Sep 5th 2022.
  • "Cogitor, ergo cogito, ergo sum: Adolf Schlatters Rezeption der religiösen Philosophie Franz von Baaders", at the Conference of the International Network for Transzendental Philosophy and German Idealism "Mit Gott auf der Flucht. Die Religion in der Klassischen deutschen Philosophie", Neuendettelsau (Germany), June 17th 2022.
  • "Dämonie und Fundamentalismus: Paul Tillichs Begriff des Dämonischen im Kontext aktueller Fundamentalismusdebatten", at "Religion und Fundamentalismus" by the German Society for Philosophy of Religion, Dubrovnik (Croatia) June 13th 2022.
  • "Natur, Mensch, Geschichte: Zur theologischen Hermeneutik der Wirklichkeit bei Adolf Schlatter", at "Religion und Hermeneutik" by the German Society for Philosophy of Religion, Dubrovnik (Croatia) Oct 26th 2021.