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Evangelische Theologie

Dr Angelika Michael

Lecturer for Christian art and religious didactics at the University of Wuppertal

Angelika Michael

Room: O.10.41

Telephone: (0202) 439-2352 (secretary's office)

Office address:University of Wuppertal
Faculty 1 (Protestant Theology)
Gaußstraße 20, D-42097 Wuppertal

E-mail: michael(at)uni-wuppertal.de

Consultation hours by appointment

Career and publications

  • 1963 Born in Berlin
  • Specialised school for music
  • 1981 - 1984 Studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin (maths and musicology).
  • Since 1988 studies of Protestant theology and art history at the universities of Bochum and Münster, interrupted by periods of parental leave.
  • Graduated in 1999 with a Master's degree in theology, subject of the thesis: "Kierkegaard's understanding of Christ with special reference to 'Practising Christianity'".
  • 2004Doctorate, topic of dissertation: "The Apsis Mosaic of St Apollinare in Classe. Its interpretation in the context of the liturgy".

  • The obedience of faith with Martin Luther. On the interpretation of an altar decoration in Lutheran Flensburg (Lutherjahrbuch 91, 2024)

  • Knowledge of God and selfhood in Martin Luther (Journal of Theology and Philosophy 145, 2023, pp. 207 - 227)

  • "Quod Christus sit mea forma". On the meaning of the word field forma / formari in Martin Luther's doctrine of justification (Lutherjahrbuch 89, 2022, pp. 14 - 47)

  • Ferrum ignitum in Luther: Truth that reveals itself essentially transforms man (Kerygma und Dogma 67, 2021, pp. 169 - 197)
  • Omnia necessitate fieri - Darümb do only what you owe: Luther's doctrine of the unfree will and his instruction in being a Christian (Kerygma and Dogma 64, 2018, p. 178 - 202)
  • A series of copperplate engravings of the Seven Virtues according to Maarten de Vos and the doctrine of the virtues in Martin Luther's theology (Lutherjahrbuch 83, 2016, pp. 233 - 272)
  • Christ on the cross - in the visual arts of the Middle Ages. In: One cross - many views. Theology of the cross in word and image, ed. by Johannes von Lüpke and Christian Brouwer, 2015, p. 79 - 117
  • Rubens' Inmaculada in the Prado: On the complexity of meaning in a painting of the Virgin Mary. In: Art History. Open Peer Reviewed Journal, 2014, www.kunstgeschichte-ejournal.net (urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-kuge-393-7)
  • Luther and the images. Of images that one sees and those that one does not see (Lutherjahrbuch 79, 2012, pp. 101 - 137)
  • The Apsis Mosaic of St Apollinare in Classe. Its interpretation in the context of the liturgy, 2005