Prof. Dr. Christian V. Witt
Time at IEG: 2017 – 2023
Research projects:
Differences as Wealth. A History of the "Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe" (CPCE)
The project fundamentally asked how and why, since the second half of the 20th century, inter- and intra-confessional differences could be interpreted as an expression of religious richness and constructively integrated into specific forms of church community building. To this end, it examined, against the background of 20th century European history, the emergence and development of the "Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe" (CPCE) as a specific organisational form of inner-Protestant diversity.
Reformed Confessional culture in North and Baltic Sea regions
Can a specific Reformed confessional culture be determined in view of the plurality of early modern Reformed thought? The cooperation project pursued this key question along central fields of interaction in which possible confessional influences were expected: Cultures of knowledge and economics received as much attention as aesthetic and political-legal cultures.