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apl. Prof. Dr. Christopher Voigt-Goy

Member of the academic staff, project EuReD
Room: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2, Mainz
Phone: +49 6131 577 161

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Personal Details:

* 1972 in Kandel (Palatinate).
Studied Protestant theology in Frankfurt/M., Cambridge (UK) and Göttingen.
1997 First theological examination,
2001 Doctorate (Dr. theol.) in Göttingen,
2003 Second Theological Examination (EKHN),
2011 Habilitation in Church History (Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel),
2012 Privatdozent (Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal/Bethel),
2023 Awarded the title of "außerplanmäßiger Professor für Kirchengeschichte" (Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal).

2003-2011 Research assistant at the Chair of Historical and Systematic Theology (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).
Since August 2011 research associate at the Leibniz Institute for European History.
Since August 2020 Head of the project "Europäische Religionsfrieden Digital" at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz.

Winter semester 2012/13: Substitution of the professorship "Historical Theology (Modern Times)" at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Heidelberg.
Winter semester 2015/16 and summer semester 2016: Substitution of the professorship "Historische Theologie (Antike und Mittelalter)" at the Faculty of Theology of Heidelberg University.

Memberships:

Verein für Reformationsgeschichte
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie
DFG-Netzwerk »Religion im Plural« (seit 2021)

Research Interests:

History of the Church and Christianity in the Modern Era
Ecclesiastical legal history
History of Religious Freedom
Digital Humanities

Selected Publications:

Der englische Deismus in Deutschland. Eine Studie zur Rezeption englisch-deistischer Literatur in deutschen Zeitschriften und Kompendien des 18. Jahrhunderts, Tübingen 2003 (Beiträge zur historischen Theologie 121).
Potestates und ministerium publicum. Eine Studie zur Amtstheologie im Mittelalter und bei Martin Luther, Tübingen 2014 (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation 78).
(Hg. zus. mit Kai Bremer und Dirk Werle), Formen der Geselligkeit und ihr historischer Wandel als Herausforderung der frühneuzeitlichen Kulturgeschichte. Das Beispiel Leipzig, Daphnis 49: 1–2 (2021).
»Öffentliche«, »private« und »häusliche« Religionsausübung. Zur Herausbildung ihrer begrifflichen Unterscheidung um 1600, in: Henning P. Jürgens / Christian V. Witt (Hg.), An den Rand gedrängt – den Rand gewählt. Marginalisierungsstrategien in der Frühen Neuzeit, Leipzig 2021 (LStRLO 41), S. 189–206.
»Religionsfrieden«. Rechtliche Ordnungsbildungen konfessioneller Koexistenz im frühneuzeitlichen Europa, in: Irene Dingel (Hg.), Einheit und Vielheit – Europa pluralisieren?, Göttingen 2022, S. 25–46 DOI

Research projects:

European Religious Peace Agreements - A Digital Edition (EuReD)

The long-term project "European Religious Peace Digital" was approved within the framework of the Academies Programme jointly funded by the federal and state governments. It is being carried out at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG) and at the University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB).

Religious Peace Treaties in Europe as Legal Orders of Confessional Diversity in a Comparative Perspective

Overcoming conflicts that had arisen from the denominational pluralisation of Europe since the Reformation represented a peculiar challenge for peacekeeping and peace building between 1500 and 1800. Important for this resolution of conflicts were the various decrees, edicts, capitulations and treaties by which secular, i.e. non-religious powers legally regulated the coexistence of different Christian belief systems since the 16th century.

Religious Preservation of Peace and Peace-making in Europe (1500–1800) – Digital Edition of Early Modern religious Peace Treaties

The edition provides for the first time the textual basis for comparative research on Early Modern religious peace-making in Europe. It includes detailed introductions and commentaries and covers the period from 1485 (Peace of Kuttenberg) to 1788 (so-called Woellner Edict of Religion).

Religious Settlements and the Communication of Theological Experts

The project is completed. It was dedicated to the expert activities of theologians in the context of early modern religious peace. The focus was on the indexing and processing of the faculty opinions of Lutheran theologians for the purpose of shaping the framework orders created by the religious peace between the late 16th and early 18th centuries.