Michael Welker is a Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg and the Executive Director of FIIT, The Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology. For his first of two PhDs at Tübingen, his advisor was theologian Jürgen Moltmann, who delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1984-1985. Professor Welker is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
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