Vita

Prof. Dr. Henning Wrogemann

  Prof. Dr. theol. habil. Henning Wrogemann holds the chair for Science of Religion and Intercultural Theology at the Protestant University Wuppertal (Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal), Germany.

  Born in 1964, Dr. Wrogemann studied Theology at the Lutheran-Theological Seminary (Lutherische-Theologische Hochschule) in Oberursel (1985-87) and Theology, History and Philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg (1987-1991). From 1993-1995 he worked as Lecturer at the Chair for Mission Studies and History of Religion. In 1995, he was awarded Doctoral degree (Dr. theol.) through the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, followed in 2005 by the Doctoral habilitation degree (Dr. habil.) also at the Ruprechts-Karls University of Heidelberg.

Wrogemann served as a pastor in northern Germany between 1996-2002 (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover), as the senior lecturer for missiology and comparative religion at the Mission Seminary Hermannsburg (2002-2007), and as a member of the mission board of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower-Saxony, Germany (2005-2007). Research stays and Guest lectures (1988-2018) in different countries in Africa (among other: DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Central-African Republic) and Asia (among other: South Korea, India, Indonesia, Pakistan).

  In 2007, Dr. Wrogemann was appointed Professor at the Protestant University Wuppertal/Bethel. He also heads the Institute for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (IITIS) at the Protestant University Wuppertal / Bethel (see www.iitis.de) and was Chairman of the German Society for Mission Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Missionswissenschaft, DGMW) (2015-2019).

Since 2014, more than 20 academic degrees (Dr. theol. and Dr. habil.) have been awarded under his supervision as „Doktor-Vater“. 

• His three volume Textbook on Intercultural Theology / Mission Studies is the most comprehensive introduction to the field in German language. The English edition was published in 2016-2019, Intervarsity Press.

Publications in English

Books

• (2024): The Call to Islam (da´wa islamiyya). A Brief History and Contemporary Approaches, Leipzig.
• (2021): Christian Witness in a Globalized World. Meeting the Challenges of Religious Plurality, Secularity and Interculturality, Münster.
• (2020): Questions of Context: Reading a Century of German Mission Theology, by John G. Flett and Henning Wrogemann, Downers Grove (IL): InterVarsity Press.
• (2019): Intercultural Theology, Vol. 3, A Theology of Interreligious Relations, Downer´s Grove: IVP.
• (2018): Intercultural Theology, Vol. 2, Mission Theologies, Downer´s Grove: IVP.
• (2016): Intercultural Theology, Vol. 1, Intercultural Hermeneutics, Downer´s Grove: IVP.

Editor

• (2025): Many Modes – One Goal? Evangelism in Discourse, edited by Ralph Kunz and Henning Wrogemann, Leipzig.
• (2024): Mission in Crisis. The Church´s Unfinished Homework, edited by Ralph Kunz and Henning Wrogemann, Leipzig.
• (2015): Witchcraft, Demons and Deliverance – A Global Conversation on an Intercultural Challenge, edited by Claudia Währisch-Oblau and Henning Wrogemann, Beiträge zur Missionswissenschaft / Interkulturellen Theologie, Vol. 32, Münster.

Articles

• (2022): Mission Studies as Intercultural Theology, in: Kirsteen Kim, Knut Jørgensen, Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies, Oxford / New York, 145-162.
• (2021): Intercultural Theology as In-Between Theology, in: Religions (12), no.11:1014, 1-9.
• (2021): A common word (Sura 3:64) between Muslims and Christians? – Considerations on interreligious misunderstandings and polyphone hermeneutics, in: International Review of Mission (110), 261-273.
• (2021): Art. Mission, Missiology. C. Modern Europe and America, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume 19, Sp. 436-439.
• (2021): Art. Mission Societies, in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume 19, Sp. 453-454.
• (2020): Christ’s Love as the Basis of the Church’s Faith Witness to Muslims, in: International Review of Mission (109), 248-264.
• (2019): Christian Mission and Globalization. Current Trends and Future Challenges, in: Converting Witness. The Future of Christian Mission in the New Millennium, edited by John G. Flett and David W. Congdon, Lanham (MD)/ London: Fortress Academic, 199-212.
• (2015): Mission and Globalization. Current Trends and Future Challenges, in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Theological Studies (4), 51-68.
• (2015): Demons and Deliverance as a Challenge to Intercultural Theology, in: C. Währisch-Oblau; H. Wrogemann (Hg.), Witchcraft, Demons and Deliverance – A Global Conversation on an Intercultural Challenge, Münster, 167-184.
• (2014): Mission as Oikumenical Doxology – Secularized Europe and the Quest for a New Paradigm of Mission. Empirical Data and Missiological Reflections, in: Missionalia (42), 55-71.
• (2013): (englisch/koreanisch) Secularized Europe and the Quest for a New Paradigm of Mission – Empirical Data and Missiological Reflections, in: World Christianity Today: Confronting Crisis and its Solutions, Mission and Theology (31), ed. Han Kook-il, Seoul: The Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary Press, 41-88.
• (2011): (englisch/indonesisch) Political Procedures and Religious Commitment – Some Observations on Islamic Approaches towards Justice, Peace and Pluralism, in: J. Mardimin, Penyungting (ed.), Mempercakapkan Relasi Agama & Negara. Menata Ulang Hubungan Agama dan Negara di Indonesia, Yogjakarta, 58-75.