Rolf Ahlers

Prof. ROLF AHLERS, D.Theol.

Education:

BA Drew University,

MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary

D.Theol. Seminar für Systematische Theologie und Sozialethik, Universität Hamburg

Studied at Drew University, Maximilian Universität München, Princeton Theological Seminary, Universität Hamburg, Universität Heidelberg.

Grants and Awards:

A number of grants and awards, among them from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Screening Committee, Who's Who in America.

Teaching positions:

Universität Hamburg, Seminar für Systematische Theologie und Sozialethik

Reynolds Professor of Philosophy and Religion, The Sage Colleges, Troy and Albany, New York

Area of specialization:

German Idealism

Membership in Professional Societies:

Internationale Hegel Vereinigung

Internationale Hegel Gesellschaft

Internationale Fichte Gesellschaft

Fichte Society of North America

Hegel Society of America

American Academy of Religion

American Philosophical Association

Gesellschaft für Evangelische Theologie

New Haven Theological Discussion Group

Publications:

Books
  • The Barmen Theological Declaration of 1934 Archeology of a Confessional Text. Edwin Mellen Press, Toronto, New York, 1986
  • The Community of Freedom. Barth and Presuppositionless Theology, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., Bern/New York, 1989
  • System and Context: Early Romantic and Early Idealistic Constellations / System und Kontext: Frühromantische und Frühidealistische Konstellationen. New Athenaeum/ Neues Athenaeum, vol. VII (forthcoming, 2003, Edwin Mellen Press)
  • Critique and Dialectic. Constellations Around Hegel. In progress.
Articles and Book Chapters
  • Rolf Ahlers "Reason and Revolution", in Hourglass, Fall, 1968, vol. I:1, 27-35
  • "Technology and Humanity. The Problem of Leisure Time in Christian and Marxist Perspectives" In: Hourglass, Spring, 1969, vol. I:4, 1-5.
  • "Is Technology Repressive?" In: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Fall, 1970, vol. 32:3, 651-700
  • "Is Technology Intrinsically Repressive?" In: Continuum, Spring/ Summer, 1970, vol. 8:1/2, 111-123.
  • "Technologie und Wissenschaft bei Heidegger und Marcuse" in: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, Fall, 1971, vol. 25:4, 575-90
  • "Endlichkeit und Absoluter Geist in Hegels Philosophie" in: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, Spring, 1975, vol. 29:1. 63-80
  • "The Absolute as the Beginning in Hegel's Logic", in: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, June, 1975, 261-76
  • "The Absolute as the Beginning in Hegel's Logic", in: Philosophical Forum, Spring, 1976, vol. VI:2/3,. 288-300
  • "The Absolute as the Common Ground of Hegel's Metaphysics and Ethics" in: Hegel Jahrbuch, 1974, Köln, 1975, 347-61
  • "The Absolute as the Common Ground of Hegel's Metaphysics and Ethics" in: Ryszard Palacz, ed., Hegel a Wspólczesnosc (tansl: Hegel in he Present) Ossilineum, Poland, 1975, 27-46
  • "How Critical is Critical Theory? Reflections on Jürgen Habermas" in: Cultural Hermeneutics 1975, vol. III, 119-36
  • "Faith and Ideology" Abstracts, ed., Charles Winquist, 150th Annual Meeting, AAR, SBL, 1979 Scholars Press, Missoula, 1979, 160-164
  • "Comment" on "Hegel's Concept of Logical Life" by Murray Greene, in: Steinkraus and Schmitz, ed. Art and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy. Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, 1980, 155-157
  • "The Overcoming of Critical Theory in the Hegelian Unity of Theory and Praxis" Clio, 1980, 8:1, 71-96
  • "The Unproductivity of Production. Theological Thoughts on Justification Journal for URAM 5:4, 1982, 333-350
  • "Theory of God and Theological Method" in: Dialog, Summer, 1983, 235¾250
  • "The Confession of Altona as Political Theology" in: Lutheran Theological Seminary Review Fall, 1983, 3-30
  • "Memory and Forgetfulness: A Theme of Christian Metaphysics" in: Melita Theologica, Spring, 1984, vol. XXXIII, 1982, nos. 1- 2, 43-61
  • "The First Barmen Declaration of January 4, 1934" in: The Reformed Journal, May, 1984, vol. 34:5, 14-20
  • "Hegel's Theological Atheism" Heythrop Journal, April, 1984, vol. XXV: 2, 158-77
  • "The Dialectic in Hegel's Philosophy of History" in: Robert L. Perkins, ed., History and System Hegel's Philosophy of History, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1984, 149-72
  • "Theology and Soteriology: On the Relation of Theology and Ethics" in: Melita Theologica, 1984 vol. XXXV, 1/2, 66-81
  • "The Community of Brethren. The Contemporary Significance of Barmen III." Calvin Theological Journal, vol. 20, number 1, Apr. 1985, 7-32
  • "The Ethical Implications of Christocentric Theology: Barmen II and V" in: Abstracts, ed. Kent Harold Richards, and James B. Wiggins, AAR, SBL, 1984, Annual Meeting, Scholars Press, Missoula, 62-63
  • "The Confession of Altona" in: Harvard Theological Review 77:3, 1985, 1-19
  • "Hegel's Encyclopedia of 1830. §§ 40-51: An Exegesis I", Melita Theologica XLII, 1991: 24-34
  • "Hegel's Encyclopedia of 1830. §§ 40-51 An Exegesis II", Melita Theologica XLII, 1991: 123-138
  • "Reason In Modernity. Hegel in the Current Philosophical Debate" in: Idealistic Studies 27:3 (Fall, 1997) 251 - 267
  • "Philosophical Not - Knowing, Negative Theology and Non - Philosophy" in: Idealistic Studies vol. 28:3 (Fall 1998) 107 - 122
  • "The scholarly debate over historical revisionism rages" Times Union, Albany New York, Sunday Feb. 7, 1999,. J 4 - 5.
  • "The Holocaust and the Catholic Church Troy Record Troy, NY, Saturday July 17, 1999, Religion Page.
  • "History and Philosophy as Theodicy: On 'World History as the World's Judgment'" Idealistic Studies 30:3 (Fall 2000) 159-172
  • "Report on Weltgeschichte als Weltgericht?" Hegel Kongreß Stuttgart, June 3-5, 1999, Owl of Minerva 31:2 (Spring 2000) 203-210 (First part of report)
  • "Report on Weltgeschichte als Weltgericht?" II Hegel Kongreß Stuttgart, June 3-5, 1999, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 41/42 (2000) 166-171
  • "Fichte, Jacobi und Reinhold über Spekulation und Leben" Fichte-Studien Band 21, Hg. Hartmut Traub, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2003, 1-24, 229-235.
  • "Biotech and Theodicy: What Can and What Ought We To Do in Procreative Technology?" Albany Law Review 65:3 (2002) 679-700
  • "Reinholds Weicher Monismus" M. Bondeli/ A. Lazzari (Hg.): Philosophie ohne Beynamen. System, Freiheit und Geschichte im Denken C.L. Reinholds. Schwabe philosophica, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2003. 187-208. Proceedings of the Second International Reinhold Conference, Luzern Switzerland, March 2002.
  • "Vitalism and System: Jacobi and Fichte on Philosophy and Life" Idealistic Studies 33:1 (Spring 2003) 83-113.
  • "Reinhold's Systematicity - and Hegel" forthcoming in Ahlers, System and Context 2003
  • "Die Theologische Diskussion zum Thema 'Der Machbare Mensch' in den USA" forthcoming in proceedings of conference on "Der Machbare Mensch. Theologische Anthropologie angesichts der biotechnischen Herausforderung" annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Evangelische Theologie, Berlin, Germany, Feb 17-19 2003.
  • "Der Späte Fichte und Hegel Über das Absolute" Presented at Fichte Kongreß München Okt. 2003, forthcoming in Fichte Studien
  • "Schelling und Reinhold über Identität 1802" forthcoming Schelling Studien, 2003, Berlin.
  • "Hegel über Spekulation und Leben" Plenary presentation at Internationale Hegel Gesellschaft, Toulouse, France, Sept. 2004, forthcoming in Hegel Jahrbuch 2004

Complete list of publications, reviews, translations and papers read at professional societies upon request.