Dr. Edda Wolff Lecturer for Liturgy and Systematic Theology Institut of Old Catholic Theology E-Mail edda.wolff@unibe.ch Postal Address Universität Bern Theologische Fakultät Institut für Christkatholische Theologie Länggassstrasse 51 CH-3012 Bern
Key Research Interests Liturgy Political Theology Mystical Theology Ecclesiology Social Justice Movements Hermeneutics
Publications Monograph "Liturgical Non-Sense – Negative Hermeneutic as Method for Liturgical Studies," monograph based on my PhD thesis, published at Mohr-Siebeck (RTP), Tübingen, 2021. Reviewed by Prof. Joris Geldhof in Theologische Revue 118, June 2022 Articles "Joining into God's breath – 'work of the negative' as a connection between mysticism and political activism," accepted at The Heythrop Journal, April 2023. "Listening out for God's breath – a negative hermeneutical approach to mysticism," accepted at The Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, May 2023. "Celebration beyond (un-)belief – the potential of negative hermeneutics for a liturgical apophaticism," Studia Liturgica, 53(1), 2022. 120–136. “Robert Schurz’ Negative Hermeneutik und Sozialwissenschaften”- Eine pastoralpsychologische Relecture, bookreview, accepted for publication at Transformationen – ein pastoralpsychologischer Werkstattbericht, Frankfurt, Volume 31, July 2019, pp. 62-72. "Cyprian Krause's 'Justification of Rituality in the Face of the Absurd' - its Potential for Negative Hermeneutics of Liturgy and their Methodological Consequences" in: International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 79(3): Ritual, July 2018. Translations Translation of Presiding Bishop Curry's "Word to the Church" into German, April 2020 Translation of the Baptismal Liturgy for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, January 2020 Selected Conference Presentation A passionate "no" to suffering – passion and compassion as connection points between mysticism and political activism in the writings of Dorothee Sölle and Dorothy Day," at the Annual Conference of the Mystical Theology Network, 2nd of December 2022. "Noli me tangere – the theological challenges and potential of boundaries and borders in Indigenous reconciliation processes," at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Theology (UK), 14th of April 2021 "I have called you by name' - A liturgy of renaming in the Anglican Church of Canada," at Moving Trans History Forward, International and Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Victoria (Canada), 11th of March 2021 "Christian Churches in America under Donald Trump" Invited speaker at Theologischer Arbeitskreis Hessen (Germany), Marburg (Germany), 13th of September 2019 "Negative hermeneutics as an approach to mystical theology," at the Annual Conference of the MTN in Boston (US), 1st of March 2019 "Celebration beyond (un-)belief," Annual Conference of the SST at Nottingham (UK), 10. April 2018 Articles submitted/decision pending "I am what I do – Negative Work as a Lens for the Study of Movement Chaplaincy," submitted to the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, February 2022. "Why Gaps Matter – A negative hermeneutical approach to the Reconciliation Process in the Diocese of British Columbia based on the example of Bishop Logan's Sacred Journey," submitted to the Journal for Religious Ethics, January 2023 .
