Paul Silas Peterson

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Paul Silas Peterson, Privatdozent Dr. Theol., teaches church history and theology at the Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Tübingen (Germany) and at the Theology Faculty of the University of Heidelberg (Germany).

Latest posts

Essays

Religion and the new populism

Paul Silas Peterson·

December 20, 2016

The push for stronger cultural identities and political borders in the new populism is inseparable from the general concern about…

Minding the Modern

Thomas Pfau and the emergence of the modern individual

Paul Silas Peterson·

October 30, 2014

Here I will argue that Thomas Pfau’s presentation of modernity in Minding the Modern fails to incorporate both the sociopolitical…

here & there

Churches and public schools

Paul Silas Peterson·

May 6, 2014

On April 3rd, 2014, The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld (by overturning the judgment of…

The Unintended Reformation

Conceptualizing pluralism and consensus in the modern Western world

Paul Silas Peterson·

October 16, 2013

Without pointing out those places where I agree with Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, I would like to add a…